This may apply to other states as well. Applies to cell phones and PCs. Does not apply to many other devices. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/ny-passes-right-to-repair-will-require-tech-oems-to-share-tools-diagnostic-info/
2022-02-27 Caps Wiki – Repairing Electronics
Caps Wiki – a place for you to share your repair notes. I like the idea. I’m wondering if I have the patience to spend the extra time. https://hackaday.com/2022/02/24/caps-wiki-place-for-you-to-share-your-repair-notes/
2021-11-09 Felling Burned Out Wind Turbine
Controlled Demolition fells a ‘thermally damaged’ 2.4 MW wind turbine in Texas. Video is 2.5 minutes April 2021. Texas has 30 plus gigawatts of wind turbines. https://youtu.be/N3lxm-l5SSY
2021-09-14 PC Boards Too Cheap To Repair
Fron FB group pictures of electronic… Joshua E. Hrouda Yeah, where I worked, the PCBs were reworked and the bad chips replaced. But that was 1980. Nowadays the PCBs are populated at the same factory where the boards are made, because everything is automated and almost no labor makes them cheap. The boards may have
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2020-10-11 Right To Repair
This morning on CBS Sunday Morning they had an article about a farmer who couldn’t repair his $800,000 John Deere tractor and lost several days of work. There is a growing movement in the US to make laws that require manufacturers to allow their customers to repair the equipment they own. This is a backlash
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2020-09-05 Capacitive Dropper Failures In 240 VAC countries
From a comment I left in Big Clive’s youtube video https://youtu.be/jgaCYRc1-og In the past I’ve seen Clive having to replace “used up” capacitors in the ‘capacitive dropper’ circuits of low cost line operated devices. The problem seems to be common in other countries but here in the US I haven’t seen any problems with the
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2020-07-11 Lawn Sprinkler System Losing Pressure?
I’ve been seeing the sprinklers reaching a smaller radius after several years, and brown spots between. I was thinking that it was caused by a clogged pipe. I also had some constantly leaky sprinklers that were causing the grass to become soggy and mushrooms were growing. Then I noticed my water bill was several tens
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