On Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 9:51:23 AM UTC-4, John-Del wrote:
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 8:37:14 PM UTC-4, Phil Allison wrote:


** The modules are a mass of SMD - so essentially non repairable by audio techs with regular bench equipment only.

.... Phil

I can promise you that if you saw several of these a month, you would have by now acquired both the equipment (cheap enough) and the skill to do this in your sleep.

Although SMD requires a learning curve, it is not difficult if the tech has decent hands and magnification.


It only took me abut 15 minutes to learn on 1206 & 0805 components, over 22 years ago. It wasn't long before I was working with 0402 and the occasional 0201 sizes which required a stereo microscope, due to my life long vision problems.