 Ghetto electronics repair (Hackaday)
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Conundrum
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Sat Jun 20 2009, 08:10PM
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Registered Member #96
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
Location: CI, Earth
Posts: 4061
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hehe... Want to share your favourite hack/kludge/etc tricks?
I have been known to recell Li-Ion packs (!!!) and once got another three months out of a small mini Vaio "netbook" before the pack failed for good.
Best one was the 32" flat panel where impact damage had ripped the connector off the drive board for the screen, as it was not possible to repair due to terminal trace damage I located an "almost fits" 31" panel from another dead TV, changed over the panel wafers and trimmed the casing to *make* it fit. Still going :)
One of my friends at Uni kludged a Peltier module onto an Apple "PC" clone's CPU and kept it going for over a year by slowly increasing the voltage until his power supply finally blew out.
Just had to repair my soldering iron element by connecting 11 9V Ultralife batteries in series across it. Nice sparks and the element now works again (had to repeat as it went open again during the night)
Hopefully it will last long enough for the CPC package to show up.
-A
#include "remodulatetheHindenburgcompensators.h"
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