Modern Electronics Fails and Repairs

Behringer Eurorack UB 1202 Repair

My Behringer mixing console falls victim to the Chinesium capacitor plague. And not just a little bit.

NAD C 356BEE Amplifier Repair

Some bad thermal design in an otherwise very good audio amp. But you can bring it back to life by beefing up a few components. I am very glad I did.

HP 3210 Photosmart Color Inkjet Printer

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If you really don't want to throw it away, you might be able to repair it. Very difficultly.

Beats Pill II

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If you are like many others, yours will soon fail to charge or even turn on. Time to change the battery.

iMac 27" Repair

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It's very nice, until it just shuts off randomly on you. At which point it is not nice at all anymore, being a real pain in the rear end to service.

iMac 27" 5k Retina Display Teardown

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Since mine had failed during the above heroic repair, I might has well tear it all down and find out what it's made of and what caused the fault. Turns out to be a very impressive piece of technology.

HP w2207h LCD Screen Repair

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Like all the others, this originally nice screen has died from capacitor plague. Which gives us a chance to take a detailed look at the inside of a failed Chinesium capcitor (and compare it to a good Japanesium one).

CZUR Aura Scanner Review

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Scanning vintage documentation and manuals is an arduous task. But it looks like the affordable CZUR scanner could help a lot.

LED Light Bulb Fail

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The LED light bulb should last much longer than traditional ones and save you money. But they don't: I have had very many failures. We find out why by taking a failed one apart.