Re: general purpose circuit board repair

Have you looked inside any of the electronics built in the last 5 years?
They are all surface mount technology. You would need a hot air rework
station, a 10X boom microscope and a full compliment of pre-programmed
microprocessors. :-)

--
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"purple_stars" <webnews1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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hi folks,

quick question. what, in general, would you say are the components you
should carry along for general purpose repairs of electronic circuit
boards ? i know that's very vague, but i am curious what you think. i
have on occasion hooked things up backwards to power and fried diodes,
i did it just today with a mixer that is part of my radio setup. the
power connector i had made had gone bad and i replaced it with one of
those power tips you can get at radio shack that you just plug into a
generic cable and use. only thing is, those things can go on with
either + at the tip, or - at the tip, and i did it backwards and then
my mixer wouldn't work even when i changed it to what it should have
been. i opened it up and found that it has a 1N4007 rectifier in it
which i assume is what i burned up and is what i am going to replace.

the question is, is there sort of a stock set of parts like 1N4007's
that i should get to handle minor electrical emergencies like these ?
i use that mixer to change the relative levels of various radios so
that i can focus in on whatever i want to listen to, it's all piped
through an amplifier. and though i may not use the same setup on a
boat, i might ... and that little mixer going out would have caused me
a little bit of annoyance, making it impossible for me to send
everything through the same amplifier & speaker setup. point being
that all it is probably going to take to fix the mixer is a little
0.05$us part from radio shack and a few minutes of my time ... i'd like
to make sure i have all the right 0.05$us parts when i'm actually out
on the water!

what other components should i carry to fix these minor problems ?



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