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Shoutout to the guy who told me to use a thermal camera for intermittent faults
Thought it was a gimmick until I rented one for a day and found a hot cap on a 2012 iMac logic board in under ten minutes. Anyone else have a tool they were wrong about?
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emery6037d ago
Yeah thermal cameras are a total game changer for that kind of stuff. I was the same way, figured it was just for fancy electrical work. But seeing a heat spot on a board is so much faster than poking around with a meter for hours. Makes you wonder what other tools we're sleeping on that just seem like overkill until you actually need them.
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grant.margaret7d ago
Totally wrote off logic probes for years. Grabbed a cheap one to trace a short on a laptop board, and it beeped right at a cracked solder joint. Felt pretty silly for all the time I wasted before.
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