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When it doesn't work, I just apply more voltage.
How do you refill the white smoke which escapes sometimes when you do that?
That's the whole point. The smoke is clogging up the electronics, need to blow it out.
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#112My wife damaged the skirt at the bottom of the car, driving over a bump. It dented the skirt pretty badly, so we got it replaced. $10,000 and 4 weeks labor (but waited months to get it fixed), because they had to disassemble the whole damn car. I was livid at what should have been maybe a $200 part required practically the entire car to be disassembled. One front seat and the back seats were both removed as were the…
Model 3 is a mass market car with a production of currently all existing Tesla Roadsters per week.
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This is less of an option when hardware makers fuse everything in to a single board so when one thing breaks you need a new main board which costs as much as the whole device. I have had a surprising amount of luck with some items though. Managed to replace the shoulder buttons on my 3ds by finding a replica of the button + ribbon cable + connector used.
> hardware makers fuse everything in to a single board so when one thing breaks you need a new main board which costs as much as the whole device As frustrating as this is, it's a natural consequence of the monolithic system integration which means that the whole device now costs barely more than the mainboard. Repair hasn't become more expensive, new things have just become unbelievably cheap.
> Repair hasn't become more expensive, new things have just become unbelievably cheap.
You don't think it's both?
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The good news is you can get almost anything on the Internet. I've found so many weird parts from shady eBay sellers that worked perfectly in the end. Other times I've had to order a similar part off of Mouser and hack it to make it fit, with varying levels of success.
This is less of an option when hardware makers fuse everything in to a single board so when one thing breaks you need a new main board which costs as much as the whole device. I have had a surprising amount of luck with some items though. Managed to replace the shoulder buttons on my 3ds by finding a replica of the button + ribbon cable + connector used.
What is the alternative, a vacuum that has 3000 individual components now and they are still not user replaceable?
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This is less of an option when hardware makers fuse everything in to a single board so when one thing breaks you need a new main board which costs as much as the whole device. I have had a surprising amount of luck with some items though. Managed to replace the shoulder buttons on my 3ds by finding a replica of the button + ribbon cable + connector used.
What is the alternative, a vacuum that has 3000 individual components now and they are still not user replaceable?
Yes, this is much better because you can bring the device to someone with experience who can quickly and cheaply swap out the part.
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This is less of an option when hardware makers fuse everything in to a single board so when one thing breaks you need a new main board which costs as much as the whole device. I have had a surprising amount of luck with some items though. Managed to replace the shoulder buttons on my 3ds by finding a replica of the button + ribbon cable + connector used.
What is the alternative, a vacuum that has 3000 individual components now and they are still not user replaceable?
A good start would be to open up more access to plans & documentation to make it easier for interested people to do so.
Better access to replacement parts is another demand you often hear around the "right to repair" movement.
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Or a $20T economy.
An economy isn't a bureaucratic organization, unless of course it is centrally planned.
>An economy isn't a bureaucratic organization
Yes, in the real world it's a loose not very well coordinated association of bureaucratic organizations (i.e large enterprises - Dilbert is less comedy and more journalism), monopolies, advertisers, clueless consumers, media and politicians paid by corporate interests (or pursuing their own over their duties), financial schemers, speculators, and rent-seekers...
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What is the alternative, a vacuum that has 3000 individual components now and they are still not user replaceable?
A good start would be to open up more access to plans & documentation to make it easier for interested people to do so. Better access to replacement parts is another demand you often hear around the "right to repair" movement.
Even with just full documentation available, people (hobbyists, repair shops) could replace original parts with generic alternatives that match the spec electrically. The result wouldn't be as pretty as the original, but it would work (and gave some street cred valued by people who prefer reuse and repair to generating waste).
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#120A lot of early adopters were probably worried that Tesla would go out of business and they wouldn't be able to get parts. Tesla is still in business and there still aren't parts. Hopefully enough of the current Tesla models will end up on the road to make it profitable for aftermarket suppliers to make some parts. So far it doesn't seem like that is happening at very much scale.
Lots of would-be buyers won't purchase until the supply lines and insane repair wait times are fixed.
Source: I am one, as are many of my friends in Seattle.