Hi all , just wondering on thoughts or legality .
I buy repaired boards from a ISO repair place in Kentucky .
I have had a customer call out another company to look at and he told me the tech repaired the existing board while on site , I think this is dangerous. Of course he was much less then me and the customer is mad.
It’s a good question but I can’t think of anything right off hand that might make it illegal.
Maybe a technicality with not being a factory rep, but I guess that could go for anyone not factory trained for whatever particular system? I can’t think of anything that differentiates between fixing something at the component level and replacing an entire board to fix a system. A long time ago component level trouble shooting was standard operating procedure though.
We have it easy these days, unplug the old, plug in the new.
I agree with Chris+s in that field circuit board repairs are probably not illegal. It does place increased liability on the company and person who repaired the board. There can be hidden damage that is not visually obvious that can impair that board from functioning correctly in an emergency situation. That can put the company and repair person on the bad end of a big legal situation.
I too remember the old days. Like a Simplex 4208 zone boards with 2 relays, 2 or 3 resistors, and a few diodes. Modern system circuit boards are full of surface mount technology devices that are difficult to replace on a properly equipped repair bench.