A lot of times when something suddenly quits working and shows no defects that are obvious to a novice like me, I stash it away, but when I try the device again months later, it usually works fine. What's going on? The devices are things like cordless phones, CD drives, and radios.
I'd like to think that some intermittent connection got jiggled just right by accident, but before I stashed away the product I had resoldered joints, tapped on circuit boards, changed some capacitors, and applied heat and freeze spray. Also I tried doing most of those things again when I took the product out of storage, to see if I could make it fail again, but there was no change. Only one product went bad again, a Philips/Acer CD drive, after a few months, but it worked again after being stored for about a year.
I'd like to think that some intermittent connection got jiggled just right by accident, but before I stashed away the product I had resoldered joints, tapped on circuit boards, changed some capacitors, and applied heat and freeze spray. Also I tried doing most of those things again when I took the product out of storage, to see if I could make it fail again, but there was no change. Only one product went bad again, a Philips/Acer CD drive, after a few months, but it worked again after being stored for about a year.
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