Thanks marscruz👍 I watch Louis often🙂

@@BuyitFixit Louis maintains a repair procedure Wiki mostly for MacBooks but I think any product can be added. Adding the FLIR DMM might be a way to get more people to know about the inspired fix.

Thanks Four Oak Farm 👍.Vince has helped me out a bit as he gave me a shout out on a couple of his videos. He's a subscriber too! We've had a good few chats on here in some of the comments on my videos. He's a good guy!

I’m a Fan of Vince as well! Great guy! 🎉

Yes, nice fella👍

So did I! MMV 👍

@@BuyitFixit i AM BIG FAN TOO🤝🤝

Thank you Roger! It was a bit of a rollercoaster ride!

Thanks Adam. I've had my channel for quite a few years but I've only been doing it fairly seriously for about the last 6 months. It has grown quite significantly from when I started. Agree with most companies just want you to throw things away and not repair them. I remember when you used to get a manual with a schematic or the schematic was on a label inside a device. Alas you don't hardly get anything like that these days.

Ok, I definitely see the channel getting big with the content you’re making. Hopefully the likes of Lewis Rossman or NorthridgeFix soon. As for availability of parts, it will only come if companies are forced to do it. Right to repair. Lewis Rossman is doing great work with it.

Thanks Adam! I watch Loius too and he seems to be a big proponent of #righttorepair I don't like the way companies try to lock things down with software locks etc too so components have to be paired etc.

If i got ""Please throw it in the trash and we will happily sell you a new one" response from a company. My reply would be: "No, im not doing that and you won't be selling me a new one. Screw your company policy. You can fk off and I'll just buy what i need from a chinese 3rd party.

@simontay4851 lmao 😂😂😂😂

Thanks David👍

I'm in my late thirties and just starting to understand a bit beyond the basics, and get some soldering skills etc. That comment really got me too, because it is the main motivation behind wanting to learn more :) Thank you

Thanks 🙂👍

@@BuyitFixit Looking for the invertor video now.

Thanks 👍🙂

Thanks Nathan!

Cheers mate 👍

Thanks Shaun. Yes it comes to something when an obscure Chinese LCD seller is more helpful than a huge multimillion dollar company.

they deserve a bells

Well of course. Huge multimillion dollar companies only care about how much money they can extort from you, they couldn't care less about customer service. Fk their company policy, you got another screen from china anyway _and_ the datasheet for the original screen. Flir can fk off.

@@BuyitFixit They probably ripped of the IP of FLIR and made this display themselves. lol

Thanks 👍🙂

Thanks Vince. No I tried cutting the track first. But no luck. It was waiting for a low to high transition. I think it was sat waiting for an interrupt and then the watchdog timer was kicking in causing a reset.

@@BuyitFixit Thanks Mick, keep up the good work. We can all learn plenty from your vids👍

Oh thanks Joey! I'm no expert it's just a hobby for me, but I've always repaired stuff for neighbours etc and always had an interest in electronics and computer software. You might like the RGB laser video as that one was fairly interesting, or the Ultrasound scanner too!

Thanks Bruce 👍

Thanks 👍and yes. I've found even when companies do sell parts often they are priced so it's not a cost effective repair (Milwaukee for instance).

Thank you 👍

Thank you! And absolutely! That's why I like fixing things🙂👍

Cheers mate 👍

Thank you John!

Cheers thanks 👍🙂

Thanks Kenny 👍

The goal is not to make things repairable beyond the guarantee period. If you can make the equipment last one month past the guarantee period then it is optimally designed, this tuning has been going on since brand loyalty was a thing and people buy the same brand even though they have been let down many times in the past.

@@KallePihlajasaari Yes. "Engineered Obsolescence" for the sake of jobs and the economy, it is said. I say that high product reliability and longevity do not make a company unprofitable or put it out of business.

Thanks 👍. Yes I was so pleased I managed to get that one working!

Cheers mate 👍

Thank you 🙂👍

Thanks bootsowen and great job on fixing the washer and dryer!

Thanks 👍yes I don't actually use it now as I prefer the infiray one I now have. It has a higher resolution and frame rate and also I can record to SD where this one doesn't record.

Thanks Mark, and thanks for the info 👍🙂

Thanks j s. Luck also helps at times!

Thanks 👍

Thanks Retsof 👍

Thanks 👍🙂

Thanks Jon 👍

I've actually been sent another thermal camera by a company to keep, which I'm going to compare with the FLIR. I'm going to do a comparison between them.

Thanks so much for your kind comment! A lot is just experience and trying to figure things out logically. Your skills will improve the more you practice 🙂 If you get stuck with anything I'll try me best to help.

Thanks! I'm not sure if I did reply back to FLIR or not. I had a similar experience with a solar inverter and the company wouldn't give me the password for it to adjust a setting after I repaired it, I didn't give up and had to reverse engineer their software, and then write my own password generator. I then emailed them back the passwords for both of my inverters 😂😂Both the repair and the password shenanigans are on my channel 🙂

😂😂😂👍

Thanks👍I've had a similar experience a couple of times now. One was with a Solar inverter I repaired, and then needed to adjust a setting. I emailed the company that took over manufacturing them and they said "it's an old model, buy a new one" pretty much. I ended up having to reverse engineer the software and I wrote my own service password generator which is available on the video to download. I also show all of the emails that went back and forward the same as on this video. You might like that one too. It's called "no password, no problem" 🙂

Cheers mate 👍

Thanks Wayne! :)

Thanks 👍

Thanks!

😂😂😂😂Thanks 👍 Did you see the solar inverter repair and then the software hacking then ensued, or the medical ultrasound scanner video I did?

Thanks 👍

Thanks Robin! I'm sure I'll get there eventually...

Thank you! Cheers!👍

Thanks Jeffrey! :)

Thanks 👍

Thanks 👍

Thanks 👍😂😂😂

Many thanks👍

Thank you very much!

Thanks Rory Rory👍, I do try... check out my RGB laser repair if you haven't seen it that one was also an interesting one. I've also had to do a revisit on a couple of items that's usually because they are not repairable and then a viewer kindly donates parts from a unit they had (dyson hot and cold fan) funny how it was literally from the other side of the world, and I still had to repair it :)

@@BuyitFixit You certainly do try and that's what I love. The diversity is also brilliant. Why do some KZfaqrs constantly do PSs, Xboxes and Nintendo's. Boring. Just looking at your Milwaukee Crown Stapler video now and I'll go straight to the RGB laser next. Thanks a million for the uploads.

And thank you for commenting Rory 👍Yes I've got a few more coming including an expensive treadmill today.. got a few more Milwaukee items, a 3d printer, a large and expensive bluetooth speaker, some other fitness stuff too lol

@@BuyitFixit Wow, now that is what I call diversity. Looking forward to your new uploads but in the meantime I've got a lot of your videos to watch. Hope you don't have too many where you threw in the towel. :) Just subscribed. Man, you are knowledgeable. They call me McGyver in my job but I tell you, I wouldn't have a quarter of the knowledge or skill you have.

Thanks Rory 👍

Thanks 👍yep agree with all of that 🙂

Thanks 😊👍

Thanks 👍

Thanks Julian! Yes it was definitely a bit of a rollercoaster ride that one!

Thanks 👍I'd also say I had some luck on my side, I did take a chance and might not have been able to repair it for instance if the main IC was cooked. But it did turn out good in the end 🙂

Thanks 👍Best of luck!

Thanks 👍

Thanks Fred. Really appreciate that 👍

Cheers 👍

Thanks, yes I don't know why this video didn't do better than it did. It only did as well as it has because I submitted it to a site called hackaday which made it get a lot more views. I've been doing KZfaq more seriously over the last 18 month and I still don't understand why some videos do well and others don't. It just seems down to pot luck 🤷‍♂️

​​@@BuyitFixit I think is the type of content, the repairs on tools will do well as there are people who want to have a go, I believe it's that type that draws people in as more and more content creators are doing the same so it's not a small audience anymore. People want to fix things to save money right now, those videos will do well I believe 👍​@BuyitFixit

@thetraindriver01 Thanks mate 👍

Thanks 👍Yes, I think there warranty only lies with the original purchaser and is not transferable. It looked like a customer return or something as there wasn't even any light scratches or signs of use on it and all of the test leads were still sealed.

Next time tell them it was a Christmas present and Santa did not include it in the gift; But, hold on, you'll go check the chimney😜

@hypocrisyrules 😂😂😂

Thanks Philip 👍

Thanks 👍yes I've had to get creative a few times. In fact the video out later today is quite similar.

Thanks Thrifty Tool Shed! Pity about your MAC meter :(

Thanks 👍

Thanks 👍yes you are correct. I cut the track near the display connector so the pin wasn't grounded 🙂

if it fails then we can check is it 10y warranty that they claimed on mail.

Thanks! 👍

@@BuyitFixit Just thinking about it, the freq of the PWM signal is possibly synced with the LCD ‘refresh’ as to not cause any aliasing with the backlight?? That TE signal may well be exactly the same? Anyway it works and that’s extremely satisfying and a nice bit of test equip at a snip!

@@petesapwell Yes true I didn't think of the backlight PWM being synchronized with the refresh. Although the signal is from the LCD to tell the processor that it has finished processing the frame. Anyway it seems to work 😂😂😂

Thanks mate 👍🙂

Thanks Blondie 👍 I checked the sizes first to make sure it fit, it was pretty much the same screen apart from the one pin that the FLIR processor was expecting to output, luckily my bodge seemed to take care of that. I'm going to do a review of another FLIR camera soon as a company kindly sent me one, and I'm really impressed so far. It seems to make the FLIR look like trash!

@Buy it Fix it I bought a Flir a couple of years ago to use for locating hot spots on PCBs. Works great. I also now use it for other things, like tracing the broken sewer pipe in the basement. THAT ALONE save me big bucks and more than paid for itself.

@@bills6946 Cheers Bill 👍sometimes it's more software than schematics. Like the ultrasound scanner video where I find some hidden features which I managed to unlock 🙂

@@BuyitFixit Exactly my point, Mick.

Thanks 👍

Thanks 👍

Thanks Lukasz!

Thanks Ian. I'm no sure about the TE1 as I couldn't see a TE1 pin on the pinout. It can be left floating if it's not used, but in this case it was being used to tell the processor that it had finished drawing that frame or something, but with my bodge it looks perfect anyway... Perhaps it might not update the image as quick or something? but it looks good to me! I was using it earlier on a board to see if I could see a heat spot... Yes AliExpress does come in handy!

@@BuyitFixit TE is "Tearing Effect". It is the frame flyback pin if you are native english speaking. I had a similar experience with random aliexpress displays having different pinouts. However in my case I was able to change a resistor position on the flex PCB to get access to TE

Thanks for that! On the display I got from Aliexpress pin 2 is just linked along with pin 1 direct to ground. No resistors or anything to change.

Thanks 👍

You're welcome. I've been sent an infiray thermal and I'll be doing a comparison video soon.

@@BuyitFixit Good we need options,These guys have to learn we will not tolerate this behaviour. I'm done with Apple and John Deere as well and many others for the same reason.

Nice, I would think that is very far and few between! We need more companies with such a helpful approach. I had an experience similar to this with a solar inverter I repaired where they wouldn't give me a password! (So I reverse engineered their software) The video is on here too called "no password, no problem" if you haven't seen that one 🙂👍

doncha just hate it when the company says they can't or won't send you a simple thing such as a data sheet? I try not to buy anything I can't get a diagram for. . . . Now if i could just get the diagrams for my Jeep (lol)

Thanks Adrian 👍😊

Hope you had a great vacation! Yes glad I got that fixed. No doubt it will feature in future videos!

@@BuyitFixit I really did, had a little get away with the missus, I'll be looking forward to seeing it in use

Thanks 👍. Nice kit but I've yet to use it on a repair video.

Thanks KG Salvage! I'm glad I got it working too! ... But.. I'm not really that impressed with it. A company sent me an infiray one that plugs into your phone to do a review and comparison and my first thoughts are it makes the FLIR one look like a piece of s#*t!

I've wanted a thermal camera forever. Eventually bit the bullet and got an Infiray for the phone. It's amazing!

Yes they are good. I got offered one from topdon which seem to be very similar spec if not the same sensor.

Thanks 👍

Thanks FastMover 👍

Thanks mate 👍🙂

Thanks Roberta 👍

Thanks for your kind words. Much appreciated 👍Check out the RGB laser video I did if you haven't already, I'm sure you'll like that one too 🙂

@@BuyitFixit I will do that👍 Thanks for the tip! Learning a lot from you💪

Thanks 👍

Thanks Joe 👍🙂

You're never too old buddy, I'm fairly long in the tooth too, but usually everything I look at to repair I learn something new. Every day is a school day so they say...

@kalpat5753. Same here. I know the basic principles of what a resistor does, what a capacitor does and what a diode does. But how just by arranging all those things in different ways you can make an infinity of different "stuff" happen is just like witchcraft to me. But I still enjoy watching these kind of videos and thinking "Iwish I could do that". But, also being too long in the tooth to go down that particular rabbit hole, I too get a wee bit jealous!

Thanks Rob 👍

Thanks 😊

Thanks Michael 👍🙂😂😂

Nice 🙂👍I've done some pretty impressive work, including software and hardware! I had a similar experience like this one with a solar inverter I repaired, then the company wouldn't help so I had to reverse engineer their software, and write my own password generator to get a password to change some settings! The videos are "aurora solar inverter" and "no password, no problem" hopefully you'll like those too 🙂

@@BuyitFixit I’ll be slowly but surely going through your videos. It is very impressive. Thank you.

Thank you 👍🙂

Welcome aboard! and thanks for letting me know. I've not looked into the patreon side of things, a couple of people have mentioned it though. Thank you again for the support, I do try an make a variety of "fixes" just to keep it a bit interesting 👍

@@BuyitFixit So glad I found the channel, I'll be watching all your videos over the next few days 😁 You're a class act, no nonsense skilled repair - a man after me own heart. Get yourself a patreon and I'll get you a few pints 👍

I think that only applies to the original purchaser, and if you have proof of purchase :(

unfortunately as you stated the warranty only is available to the original purchaser this should not be the case especially with it being a 10 year warranty this should be completely unconditional and available to all purchasers whether it was bought new or second hand the company could easily check the date of manufacture by the serial number and i feel the warranty period should start from the date of manufacture unless the purchaser can provide proof of purchase this would then allow subsequent purchasers to benefit from the 10 year warranty. failing that the manufacturer should be forced to provide spares and service data backup to enable the product to be repaired by a third-party repairer or repaired by the owner if they are capable of doing so. I used to repair consumer electronics mostly Tv sets and audio equipment i stopped doing repairs when it became dificult getting the spare parts and service manuals for the products this was around the time when CRTs started to dissappear and flat screens took over the first flat screens used to have service manuals available but the majority of the tv was the LCD panel and this was regarded as a single component and was deemed unrepairable and the manufacturer would charge almost the same price for the replacement panel as the price for the entire Tv set. I have done a few repairs mainly for family and friends these were mostly PSU repairs or replacing backlight LEDs. Great job with that meter. You are very lucky with that one. i am not surprised that the obscure Chinese seller of the display was much more helpful than FLIR !!

@@peterensinger1770 100%

Thank you! Cheers!