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Remember when you could fix a TV with just a soldering iron and a schematic?
I pulled apart a 10 year old LCD monitor last week to fix a backlight issue, and the main board was just one sealed unit. No caps to swap, no individual regulators, just a single board you replace entirely. Back in my dad's shop in the 90s, we'd fix a CRT by testing a handful of parts on an open chassis. The shift from component-level repair to board swaps really hit me. It feels like half the job now is just finding the right replacement module online. Has anyone found a good source for board-level schematics on newer stuff, or is that knowledge just fading out?
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black.amy4d ago
Ugh, it's all planned obsolescence now. They don't want you to fix a single chip, they want you to buy a whole new unit. The knowledge isn't fading, they're just locking the door and throwing away the key.
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