![]() ![]() This display seemed to work at first, but the instrument then got caught in a boot loop. The display’s part number didn’t return any useful results online, but AliExpress did have a very similar-looking display available with a slightly different part number. The signals from the microprocessor seemed to reach the display OK, so the fault was somewhere in the screen itself. ![]() Not to be deterred, took the meter apart and tried to find out what was going wrong. When got his hands on a FLIR multimeter-thermal camera combination instrument with a broken display, he quickly found that FLIR was firmly in the “all our designs are top secret” camp and wouldn’t even tell him what kind of display they had used. ![]() Others keep everything under wraps to protect their intellectual property, turning even a supposedly simple fix into a reverse engineering ordeal. Some make repairs very easy by publishing detailed service manuals and selling spare parts. When it comes to repairability of electronic devices, much depends on how helpful the original manufacturer is. ![]()
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