• bdonvr@thelemmy.club
    3·
    3 days ago

    I’ve been doing a lot more electronics repair recently.

    Second monitor wouldn’t power on/intermittently. Went on eBay and found someone selling the main board from a unit with a broken screen. $30 which saved me from buying a $170 new one.

    Soldered a new switch onto a $50 mouse for like $5

    Ordered a nice keyboard with hotswappable switches, had 4 broken solder joints once I put all the switches in. Not sure if that was me or bad QC but I didn’t want to wait 6+ weeks for round trip return to China so I opened it and was able to resolder all of them and it works perfectly.

    • lgsp@feddit.it@feddit.itOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      I always try to repair my electronics too. Sometimes enclosures are glued and designed not to be tinkered with. Other times things are much easier.

      • I could extend the life of my washing machine that I couldn’t use anymore because two stupid click buttons didn’t work anymore. I soldered a couple of other buttons scraped from something old
      • My TV didn’t work anymore. I opened the rear panel that revealed 2 boards, one for power supply and the other a logic board. i understood that in was the power supply board not working. Ordered one for 30 €and replaced it. A new TV would have been at least 300 €

      But it is not something that people learn. I learned to repair my bike tube from my father. There are a lot of bike co-ops around. For electronics everything is much newer