Yes and no, you have legal responsibility beyond just making sure the vehicle passes an MOT...Or in my case (and many other's) build a motorbike from many parts. An MOT is sufficient proof of roadworthyness.
Better implementation of a circuit Naim copied out of an electronics magazine?“Inspired by Naim”?
Better implementation of a circuit Naim copied out of an electronics magazine?
Or in my case (and many other's) build a motorbike from many parts. An MOT is sufficient proof of roadworthyness.
Yes and no, you have legal responsibility beyond just making sure the vehicle passes an MOT...
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The original was better, it had the output inductorThe original Naim circuit came from an RCA semiconductors data book, I think the original design appeared in the late ‘50s.
https://www.updatemydynaco.com/documents/70WattRCAAmplifierDesign.pdf
Think 1990
Apparently you didn't look at the context of my post.Yes and no, you have legal responsibility beyond just making sure the vehicle passes an MOT...
You don't necessarily need such exhaustive information to be savvy, courtesy of the internet we can find out more than ever about others' experiences with the product and conduct of the company to inform our buying behaviours. If you feel so strongly about such things being available you could check whether they are ahead of time and avoid manufacturers who do not provide them, that would 'be savvy.'
In that vein I find it bizarre that you tell of this poor experience of yours in such highly redacted form. You are failing to provide your fellow consumers with precisely the sort of information they need to help inform their choices. I can't for the life of me understand why.
That would be ideal but the components required to provide the features sets demanded by people today pretty much mandated the use of SMD.Given that trouble-shooting/repairing some electronics, eg SMD, can be difficult/costly, surely there's an argument, from both a practical and green perspective to mandate products to be built from easily replaceable boards/modules. So, for example, a small board/module ends up in landfill, rather than the whole component.
Of course not, this is the internet!Apparently you didn't look at the context of my post.
I don't have anything like Jez's level of expertise, but I have fixed a few iPhones in the same way an Apple Shop would, i.e. you replace the whole board or assembly where the fault is, and that is bloody fiddly enough. Apple do not make getting parts easy through them though, which in the vein of this thread I think they could use some encouragement to. I sort of understand their thinking with their 3rd party repairer certification scheme, but in practice I'm not sure it achieves what they intend. And the parts mysteriously show up on eBay anyway, but you run the risk of getting a non-genuine part or non-working part going that route...I'm sure iphones come off the production line like shelling peas... they spend $billions to make it that way and no doubt the ultra precision equipment that forms a production line cost $100's of millions. For a human to build that iphone, if even possible, would probably take a week for one phone. It's not economically viable.
Can you point me in the direction of the directive you are referring to? Sad act PIR graduate that I am I'm on the Commission website reading up about "sustainable product policy and ecodesign" and can't actually find this requirement? Not trying to argue with you just curious! It looks like some fairly robust requirements are coming into force for various categories of white goods in 2021 including for spares to be available for 10 years, which is surely good news whatever the hell happens with Brexit? However they get here, UK versions are still going to be basically the same products made for the EU market, we might just have to pay taxes, duties and tariffs to bring in spares from the mainland!If you are that puzzled by the lack og details I can happily add it was a 'Philips' badged DVD videorecorder. And many years ago when rather less information was available on the net. Although I think I did raise it at the time on usenet.
It was unrepairable because Philips no longer provided the special parts. Their 'solution' to the EU requirement was simply to tell me that they'd sell me a new - different and less capable - recorder at its wholesale price.
Hope that helps.
Absolutely, I was agreeing with you Jez. I was just saying that that is fiddly enough when you're talking about tech on that scale! It's worth doing on newer iPhones that are expensive to replace, but a three year old iPhone SE is worth what, £50? I'm not sure I'd bother except maybe out of poverty or boredom!Replacing a whole board or just the screen or keyboard is common yes but try isolating a fault on the actual board and repairing it to component level.