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Well, if it's the same type, it was before built-in obsolescence had been invented. It would be the mixer of choice for anyone interested in saving the planet.
I'm a big believer in repairing rather than replacing things. Save the planet, save money and learn something too.
They don't even sound that good. Truly a case of branding success.
I've got a Dyson DC44 handheld vacuum and found that it wouldn't turn on (after having deteriorated in battery capacity over the last few years). So I took the battery out and found the voltage was extremely low and charging it wasn't having much impact. So I ordered a new battery from ebay which arrived today...
I plugged in the new battery and without even pressing the trigger I could see flames from the motor so immediately pulled out the battery and blew away the smoke! I guess my question is whether you think that the motor will be salvageable after that sort of trauma?
I must confess I'm really pissed off that this has happened (my boiler also being broken certainly isn't helping with general stress of things breaking either!) and can only assume that the voltage of the new battery is way too high.
What do you guys think?
You need to get it apart really and have a look
https://i.imgur.com/jTWzRML.jpg
Chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them
Donald Trump needs kicking out of a helicopter
I'm personally responsible for all global warming
Offset:"A little heavy on the hyperbole"
This repair will show just how tight I am, it's a pair of £9.99 USB powered speakers. To be honest I'm not sure if this counts as a repair, all I can tell you is that I borrowed these from the shop I do repairs for and when I hooked them up to my laptop last night they sounded so bad I assumed they must be broken.
Basically there's so must distortion from these little audio IC amps it's pretty unlistenable.
So coming in we have 5V and ground from the USB cable, then audio ground and left and right for the input and then left and right speakers out. So I'm gonna wire in a whole new 5V stereo audio amp.
This is the PAM8403 chip ... a very cheap class 3 watts a side class D stereo amp which cost the princely sum of £1.89 assembled on a PCB and delivered from China. So in it goes, wiring is simple as it just needs 5V and ground, L + R audio in and L + R speaker out the other amp used.
Listening with the new amp fitted I could hear some distortion on the low end because the 5V rail couldn't keep up with the transients so I glued a reservoir cap on the back of the PCB connected to the power in. Also put some foam in the boxes. That did the trick and they sound OK now.
And that was it done. They still aren't Hi Fi but they are tolerable now. I won't throw the old PCB away, that will be pressed into service running a polyphonic Ebow design I'm working on.
It's a sealed unit so I work out roughly where I need to get to and cut a chunk out of it, being careful to preserve the screw fixing as I need that to bolt it back on
Pulled out the little circuit board and notice there's a component missing and shaking the assembly a diode falls out so that's basically why it's failed ...shit soldering
So soldered diode back on the board. Checked assembly with a 9V PP3 battery and then rebuilt it as best I could
And there you go, bit of a pain but it's fixed and will pass the MOT now.
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As the thermostat dial has been so stiff for about 10 years as to be almost impossible to move it without a pair of pliers, I also caved in to the wife's demands for it to be changed, and fitted a new one. Admittedly, I got a 240v belt off the thermostat wires when I forgot it's connected to the mains, but I reckon it was a small price to pay to avoid the wife's tongue-lashing and ear-bending.
All this is particularly satisfying because not only have I managed to avoid calling out a heating engineer on a Saturday, but also the heating usually packs up just in time for the Christmas holidays (most holidays, actually), so I'm hoping I've beat it to the draw this year.