Repairs
This category covers real repairs, usually broken units bought cheaply on eBay or picked up as a return, with the fault unknown at the start. The point is the diagnosis: tracing a fault back to a specific component using a scope, a multimeter, and schematic knowledge, rather than jumping straight to a part swap.
Expect amplifiers, audio equipment, and general household electronics with genuine faults, not staged teardown content. Where a repair doesn’t succeed, that’s shown too. Not every unit comes back from the dead, and the process of finding that out is still useful.
2025 2 videos
Length 43:22Cambridge Audio Bluetone 100 Repair: No Bluetooth Fix
Diagnosing a Bluetone 100 that plays analogue audio but won't pair. Scope traces, EEPROM dumps and a CSR8645 to CSR8675 module swap that finally works.
Length 50:00NAD D 7050 Amplifier Repair: Multiple Faults Fixed
Repairing a faulty eBay NAD D 7050 digital amplifier: cracked SMPS transformer, dead caps, blown OLED boost converter and a burnt out white LED.
2024 4 videos
Length 20:58Shinco SDL5-10D Dehumidifier Repair: £5 eBay Return
A faulty Shinco SDL5-10D dehumidifier bought for £5 as a customer return, diagnosed and fixed: blown display driver IC and an open-circuit resistor.
Length 16:44Fosi Audio N3 Headphone Amp Repair: Dead Channel Fix
A £4 faulty Fosi Audio N3 Bluetooth headphone amp gets a dead-channel diagnosis, ripped 3.5mm jack replacement, wire mod and LED fix, plus a listening test.
Length 25:52Cambridge Audio DacMagic Plus Repair: Whine Fix
Diagnosing the DacMagic Plus high pitched whine: the real culprit is C179 on the DC-DC input, not C148. Full ESR testing and repair walkthrough.
Length 50:24NAD D 3020 Repair: Dead Amp, Blown Hypex UcD102
Fixing a no-power NAD D 3020 hybrid digital amp: open current sense resistors, shorted Class D MOSFETs and glue-corroded vias on the Hypex board.
2022 4 videos
Length 12:20Fixing the JBC Solder Feeder Jamming Problem
The JBC solder feeder jammed constantly with 0.5mm wire. A softer spring plus a custom PTFE ferrule finally makes it feed reliably. Here's the fix.
Length 10:47Bosch GEX 150 Turbo Repair: Failed RIFA Style Caps
Metallised paper capacitors strike again. Teardown and repair of a Bosch GEX 150 Turbo sander, showing why these X2 caps fail and how to replace them safely.
Length 23:52Roberts RD70 DAB Radio Repair: Volume Control Fix
Fixing a Roberts RD70 FM/DAB radio with a faulty volume control. Teardown, Frontier Radio SoC, audio stage analysis and the actual repair.
Length 14:46Varilight V-Pro LED Dimmer Module Repair & Teardown
Inside a failed Varilight V-Pro AC LED dimmer: fault finding, triac and MCU analysis, plus what the circuit design reveals about reliability.
2021 2 videos
Length 12:07Fixing a 4.5 Digit Multimeter That Keeps Browning Out
Troubleshooting a bench multimeter that resets and browns out under load. Fault finding on the power supply rail, plus what the repair reveals about build…
Length 11:31Why Knightsbridge LED Strip Lights Keep Failing
A teardown of repeatedly failing Knightsbridge LED strip lights, digging into the driver design, thermal stress and why replacements die too.
2019 1 video
2016 1 video
2015 6 videos
Length 10:22Symmetricom GPSDO Part 4: Tantalum Cap Rework
Replacing failed tantalum capacitors on a Symmetricom GPSDO GPS board with Panasonic POSCAP polymer parts, plus why old tantalums explode.
Length 28:28Cambridge Audio A4 Amp Teardown, Recap & LED Mod
Refurbishing a Cambridge Audio A4 integrated amplifier: full teardown, Panasonic and Rubycon recap, plus a front panel ambient LED mod.
Length 21:56Acoustic Solutions SP101 Amp Repair: Error U52 & U53
Teardown and repair of an Acoustic Solutions SP101 hi-fi amplifier showing U52/U53 error codes, plus a front panel rotary encoder replacement.
Length 7:36Samsung 46" TV Repair: Bad Cap Found With Peak ESR70
Fixing a dead Samsung 46-inch LCD TV by tracking down a failed standby supply capacitor with an ESR meter, then replacing it with a Panasonic FM.
Length 2:39BenQ LCD Monitor Repair Follow-Up: Bad Cap Found
Follow-up on a BenQ/LG TFT monitor repair: a failed electrolytic on the control board plus a dry solder joint were the real culprits. Full diagnosis and fix.
Length 34:31BenQ LCD Monitor Teardown and Power Supply Repair
Diagnosing a BenQ LCD monitor that kept blowing 5A mains fuses. Full teardown, PSU fault finding and repair using scope, ESR meter and multimeter.

