Hot take: I saw a guy at the Milwaukee trade show fix a control board with a $5 soldering iron and it made me rethink my whole parts replacement habit.

He spent 15 minutes on a board I would have just swapped out for a $120 part, and his fix has held for 6 months according to the customer he brought with him.

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dianal9416d ago

My old boss used to say 80% of board failures are just a single bad capacitor.

emery_lopez16d ago

Wow, the rest of the board must feel pretty useless then.

miam754d ago

Man, that hits close to home. I've tossed so many boards that probably just had one bad joint or a blown fuse. It's easy to just swap the whole thing when you're busy. What @emery_lopez said about the rest of the board being useless is exactly the feeling, like you're throwing away a perfectly good sandwich because one corner got soggy. Makes you want to at least crack the case open and look for the obvious stuff first.