Re: Equipment, and the Useless Eco- legislation ...

Arfa Daily <arfa.daily@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have just had a Denon AVR1800 AV amp come across my bench. It is a
reasonably sophisticated model with six channels and Dolby Digital and DTS
modes, optical inputs and so on. It has an open circuit power transformer
primary. Enquires to the Denon spares agent came back with the surprising
news that it is "no longer available".

Now this is not what I expect from a company like Denon, given that
according to the date codes on all the components, it was only
manufactured
in 1999. So what are governments doing, by forcing all of this lead-free
crap on us in the name of eco-friendliness, and squealing about
householders
and their lack of recycling responsibility, and then allowing major
Japanese
manufacturers to get away with stuff like this ?

I've been in the consumer electronics repair game for a very long time,
and
I realise that spares can't be kept for ever, but I really think that for
an
item such as this, which I'm willing to bet being a Denon, set the owner
back a pretty penny when he bought it, should be supported by them for at
least 10 years, instead of it now being an otherwise perfectly good, piece
of written-off potential landfill.

If governments *really* want to make an ecological difference with regard
to
consumer electronics, then they should stop pussyfooting around with all
this ineffectual lead-free crap complete with all the reliability and
service problems that it causes, and instead, make some serious efforts to
address the issue of spare parts availability and, even more importantly,
forcing the manufacturers to supply such parts at a realistic price, which
reflects the true cost price and storage. This would save a very great
deal
of equipment, world-wide, from ending up as 'uneconomical to repair'
garbage, two weeks out of warranty.

Oh, and before everyone starts on the conspiracy theories about how the
manufacturers only want it to last just out of warranty so that they can
sell you another, I don't subscribe to this line of thinking. I believe
that
poor reliability is down to the manufacturers cutting the cost to the bone
on component speccing, along with poor design by fresh-out-of-university
graduates who know all of the theory and none of the practice. As far as
the
cost and availability of spares go, I think that this is basic
profiteering
on the former, and that both are driven by the company bean-counters.
There.
That's my rant for the week ... d|:-(

Arfa



I've never contacted main agents for spares.
If I can't get around it with a generic part or improvisation that's the end
of the repair as far as i am concerned, eg microcontroller with embedded
firmware, if thats gone then I cut my loses at that point.
Ever since hearing about Tektronix , Guernsey spares policy.
Every so often cut by half the number of spares on the racks, sell those off
at auction and double the price of the remainder, hence likes of £760 plus
VAT for small EHT oscillator transformer.

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