Repair Facility For Raspberry Pi In India?

Question

Is there a repair facility for the Raspberry Pi in India? I have a couple of defective (fried by lightning!) Pi lying with me and do not want to junk them.

mcb1 · Answer

Regardless of a repair facility or not, anything that has been affected by lightning (or static) can fail internally later.

The cost associated with repair will likely be higher than the replacement, and that assumes it can be repaired.

Best idea is to turn it to art, donate it for display or keep it for parts to rescue another (connectors, etc)

The best idea is try to protect them using power surge devices and the like.

Mark

numach · Answer

Honestly... Pi's are so cheap I seriously doubt it would be cost effective enough for a 3rd party to make the money they would need to from repairing these unless they had TONS of repairs they could do and quickly. I used to run a pager repair shop and in the later days of us being open we could barely turn a profit. They simply had gotten so cheap it wasn't worth the cost fix them most times compared to just buying a new one. That said... just go buy new ones. Like my comment started out - they are dirt cheap to begin with.