The 12 Most Common Electronics Faults : How To Diagnose And Fix Them

Whether you are repairing Computers, Audio Equipment, Industrial Electronics, Consumer Electronics, here are the most common faults you will find in electronic circuits. We look at what causes devices to fail and how to repair them. This video is part one and features six of the most likely things to go wrong with any electronic device. Part two coming very soon will look at six more.

Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:07 No.1 Power Devices
00:11:24 No.2 Fuses
00:14:22 No.3 Heavy Components
00:16:50 No.4 Physical Contacts
00:30:09 No.5 Capacitors
00:41:40 No.6 Heat Cycling

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5 Comments

  1. I have multiple pieces of equipment that failed after a severee thunderstorm. I can’t find any burns or blown fuses, no blow capacitors.. Everything looks great but they are dead. Any pointers?

  2. I repair measurement and calibration gear and because that is a small market also maritime and industrial electronics. In measurement gear I want to add small signal relais.Bad caps are a lot less a problem as with crappy consumer grade stuff. Water damage/corrosion/bad solder joints. Conductive conformal coating (due to dirt). In PSU’s the smps controller, diodes and sometimes MOSFETs/IGBT’s. In serie-cap PSU’s the serie cap (on our forum we call that the Senseo syndrome). I seldom find dead fuses but most stuff I repair are the hopeless cases my customers can/will not repair themselves so things like fuses are often already replaced. In old Philips measurement gear all push buttons.For the rest I have no “usual suspects”. In 15 years I replaced one potentiometer (a ten turn precision version costing 80 euro’s)

  3. I love watching tutorials like this but dabbling with circuit boards is well above my pay grade apart from swapping out the complete boards.
    I’m not to bad with mechanical stuff though.

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