I could use the manuals though many of them are not that good even for the dealers. I have snagged a few through my connections with other techs. Even just access to the ipls and wiring diagrams would help in most cases for me. Of course we all know how Chinese stuff is sent out with no parts support at all. It is surprising that we even fix some them.
There many good repair techs that just need a little help every once a while as what the layout is as some customer has taken it upon themselves to do a repair and get in the middle, box it up, and take it to a shop. I had one customer that brought in his riding mower in to my shop in several boxes. A real cheap skate as he even complained about the cost when I only charge 50 usd for 2 days of work to put it back together in working order because I felt sorry for him; not any more of this.
As for microwaves the new invertor systems do tend fry themselves rather quickly. And old ones much more robust. I actually made quite a bit off recycling the old units as I was getting up 5 pounds of copper out of the transformers when it was around 4 usd per pound. Beside those transformers at one time when vacuum tubes were still around plentiful made great power supplies for the high voltage supply in RF linears amps.
My current mic is a roadside unit too. It only had a bad fuse. Once replaced it has working for the last 3 yrs, just wish the clock didn't need reseting every time the power flickers here. This is probably why I am using a windup 31 day grandfather clock.
Last edited by AVB; 11/02/17 03:41 AM.
