I'm not sure if they still do this, but when I signed up for an account on Elektrotanya many years ago I had to pass a basic electronics engineering quiz in Hungarian. Google translate worked well enough and I passed, but I thought it was marvelous.
I recently started recording product info (manufacturer, model, serial number, purchase date, etc.) to a Google sheet and locating all relevant documents (spec sheet, repair manuals, etc.) and saving those to a Google Drive folder. Sites like this are a really great resource when getting everything setup!
Having all this info readily available makes it so much easier to check if my device is involved in a recall right when I see a news story or doing preliminary diagnosis of an issue. I also set the folder to stay synced and downloaded to my phone to have the information available regardless of if the power is out.
A regular dump, say yearly, of the entire content into a torrent. It's probably several TB but I'd dedicate a disk to it, because the info is solid gold, and it would be an incredible loss if it got taken down someday.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 18.4 ms ] threadThis is something all electronics manufacturers should do, have all the service manuals freely available.
There was a time when simply getting TCP/IP running on a machine was a test, of sorts. It was also marvelous.
Having all this info readily available makes it so much easier to check if my device is involved in a recall right when I see a news story or doing preliminary diagnosis of an issue. I also set the folder to stay synced and downloaded to my phone to have the information available regardless of if the power is out.
A regular dump, say yearly, of the entire content into a torrent. It's probably several TB but I'd dedicate a disk to it, because the info is solid gold, and it would be an incredible loss if it got taken down someday.