Hi @Chris_Moller, @Sergio and everyone else,
When it comes to replacing capacitors in TVs and other products, what are the main barriers you’re experiencing?: It’d be helpful to know if any of the following are relevant issues
- Accessing specific replacement capacitors - is this an issue, or are they mostly generic components?
- Assessing the correct specs of the capacitor that needs replacing
- Accessing the schematics of the device to perform the repair
- Assessing which capacitor(s) needs replacing
- Anything else?
The reason I’m asking is that as part of the European Right to Repair Campaign, we’re following developments of European ecodesign policy on electronic displays, due to come into effect in 2021. Replacement capacitors were originally meant to be made available by manufacturers to (professional) repairers , but there’s a proposal to remove this requirement, allegedly because capacitors are standardised, widely available components. We want to make sure this is indeed the case, and whether removing this requirement might have other negative consequences with regards to the repair information supplied by manufacturers about these parts.