RE: What can you do with old, broken tech?
March 20, 2013 at 12:48 pm
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2013 at 12:51 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Constructive? Keep them to cannibalize and as a playground and excuse for learning the basics of circuitry and repair?
(all circuits have test points put in place and used by the manufacturers to identify and isolate defects, there are no "mystery faults" and the process and equipment for figuring this all out is pretty cheap and simple. If a piece of electronics once worked but now does not, 9/10 times its a component that costs fractions of a penny individually - though you may not be able to purchase them individually- very rarely the trace is faulty, or a void has manifested itself in the board structure that interferes with operation)
(all circuits have test points put in place and used by the manufacturers to identify and isolate defects, there are no "mystery faults" and the process and equipment for figuring this all out is pretty cheap and simple. If a piece of electronics once worked but now does not, 9/10 times its a component that costs fractions of a penny individually - though you may not be able to purchase them individually- very rarely the trace is faulty, or a void has manifested itself in the board structure that interferes with operation)
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