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This is an old revision of SmtRepair made by admin on 2008-04-18 12:05:45.
Reparing PARIS' Internal Electronics
The short answer is "no". The more correct answer is "Possibly yes, but...". The answer in ten years may be "generally yes".
To explain: Most "repairs" to board type electronics are not really repairs at all but replacements of faulty boards. No more boards = no more replacements = no more repairs.
However in some cases repairs and replacements of individual surface-mount components can be done (providing the damage is not to the comparatively few proprietary components that are no longer available) by a sufficiently skilled electronics technician - in some cases, even working without a schematic or circuit diagram.
However, at the current price of a MEC, it is generally not cost effective as it would be difficult to find a sufficiently skilled electronics technician who will work for a "minimum charge" that is less than the cost of simply replacing, for example, an entire MEC.
So the answer today is "Yes, but it's not cost effective" - whereas in years to come, with dwindling availability of individual components, the ratio may change in favor of investigating repair for those sufficiently motivated to keep their rigs running.
