My wife has made an announcement to me over the holidays: "disconnect yourself from electronics or you take over the kitchen". My answer can be found here in the post documented: before I now separate from my carefully hoarded electronics, I wanted to at least look into it.
I describe here how to best open the case to be able to put it together again (after a repair). This is often only possible with a suitable electronic tool: often the screw heads do not conform to any standard or they are pure clamping connections.
Programming or soldering is not the case in this article: just see and be amazed.
I recommend the purchase of the following electronics tool: "Electronics Toolkit Essential from Ifixit".
OptionsLet's start with a mouse:
Now the best: a "open only by authorized Telekom staff" ISDN NTBA:
Let's stay a while with the Telekom and look at a router - model Teledat 430 LAN:
Next candidate is the EICON Network diva ISDN USB-Hub:
A headset from Sennheiser - modell PC36:
Next: a Fritz!Box Fon WLAN from AVM
At last: another Router Speedport W700V
In summary, I have drawn the following conclusions for me:
- Without circuit diagrams and datasheets, defective components can neither be found nor replaced.
- The housings contain a lot of air and could be smaller overall, if they are not adapted to the physical conditions (headphones).
- The idea of recycling could also be applied to this electronics: for example, a deposit system for returned PCB boards.
- The plastic used is often broken or leaves traces through the opening process.
- Already in use electronics may be sufficient, provided that meets the requirement: it is not always new to buy.
- I could only remove a few components and use them again for other purposes: the components were soldered too tightly to the PCB board.
I wish you a good start to the year 2018: with me, there is now room in the closet and I'm curious what exciting technologies will come to us.
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