ThermalRunaway said:Yeah I know, Nigel and I have discussed a few fault symptoms together before. I understand that Nigel has quite a lot of experience in the TV trade, although I'm not sure whether he works his own business or works for a company. I get the impression that he works for a small shop dealing mainly in Sony equipment? Again I'm not sure on that one.
To be honest I don't want back into the TV trade. I enjoy the work, but it's not going to be viable work forever so it's time for a change.
panic mode said:in my opinion your new job is only temporary too...
everything will be throw away item. repairs as trade are gone...
panic mode said:in my opinion your new job is only temporary too...
everything will be throw away item. repairs as trade are gone...
panic mode said:disposing off electronic equipment is only getting faster and taxes will not stop it. repair of expencive equipment is only delay of the process since old equipment (even functional) simply doesn't have features of the new equipment or standards and prices of the new things are comming down faster and faster. tv is not exactly trend setter, it is one rare product that actually outlived most of the other electronics devices (just look around the house and see what is the oldest electronic product you have). and yet the tv repair trade is about to disapear... how many of you have transistor radio? i bet if you listen to the radio, it's in your car. sure you don't listen to radio at home, you spend all the money on computers and DVDs.
I don't see computer repair shops doing well either and the audio CDs seam to become extinct. i probably don't go out much since iPod repair shops must be all over the city...
as for specialized and expencive equipment... i'm not sure how others see it but for me word "specialized" says it all - something reduced in functionality to do very specific task.
your old tv is such device (being replaced with multifunction device such as pc).
your old phone is such device (big and wired to the wall, shared with whole housholld, no organizer, calendar, games, custom ring etc. is being replaced with mobile phones).
your old microwave is such device (only has clock? no internet connection yet? how does it know if popcorn or soup or whatever you grabbed from the grocery store shelf is perfectly done?)
they all used to be expencive, have repair shops etc. but don't you see the trend?
something shows up big flashy and expencive. young people get excited and go for it.
thing get mass produced, become smaller, cheaper and way more powerfull in a very short time.
some managed to make living out of it but most didn't.
i hate to share this with those who still have dream:
the special robocoaster you keep next to your pillow, or giant valve or flowmeter in the garage that acid or oil plant has sent to you may be big in size, expencive to buy but...
the electronics in each of them is reduced to size of wristwatch (flowmeter or valve) or shoebox (industrial robot). in few years the shoebox size cabinet for the robot might be reduced to size of common solid state relay and probably will cost 20-50 times less than the controller from today.
even now when something is dead, it's circuitry is replaced whole or on a module level at best. there are places that repair industrial electronics on a board level. few but they exist. and the ones that make money you can count on fingers of one hand.
do you want to bet your future (or carrier) on something like this?
the big and expencive specialized devices are rare at best. they are outnumbered 1000000000:1 by cellphones,
10000000:1 by TVs and digital cameras.
tv repair was one thing i started with too some 20years ago. but how do you repair this:
**broken link removed**
and how much you think you can charge for repair? do you think customer would come back next time? how much would they charge for waste disposal for something like this? one bag of gummy bears has as much plastic as this device and one bottle of water has way more glass...
Some of these instruments are so uncommon that only a handfull
of people know how to repair them!
And guess what, companies, no matter how large, aren't eager to fork out
a $100,000 on a new instrument every time a voltage regulator fries.
well, how often does voltage regulator die? one every 5-10 years? unless someone
sized it for you to have job security... this will only last until customer
smartens and ask for better voltage regulator so this doesn't need repair
ThermalRunaway said:Our ENGINEER?? Does that mean Daewoo only employ ONE single engineer to run their entire technical support line? I just couldn't believe it.
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