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Repair Facility For Raspberry Pi In India?

rajat321

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.

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    Hi Rajat,

     

    If you look at a Pi in detail you'll see there are not many parts between the interfaces and the very few ICs on the board. So if a part blows, you are very likely to want to replace the USB hub IC, or the processor. The latter isn't available in small quantities and is a hard part to swap out.

    Someone could start a business swapping out the USB hub IC or other parts, but the schematic isn't available. Some parts you can know or can guesstimate, others you can't, but could swap from other boards perhaps.

     

    Anyway, it seems like a lot of effort, but some countries still have businesses making a living from repairing very low-cost consumer items like radios and kettles.

    If it is still worthwhile doing (I don't know the costs of labour or the costs of Pi's in India) then perhaps someone is doing it, but you can quickly figure out for yourself if you estimate that it could take an hour to swap out parts and requires some reasonable competence. In many countries the cost of labour is too high. But it could be worthwhile in other countries.

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    Hi Rajat,

     

    If you look at a Pi in detail you'll see there are not many parts between the interfaces and the very few ICs on the board. So if a part blows, you are very likely to want to replace the USB hub IC, or the processor. The latter isn't available in small quantities and is a hard part to swap out.

    Someone could start a business swapping out the USB hub IC or other parts, but the schematic isn't available. Some parts you can know or can guesstimate, others you can't, but could swap from other boards perhaps.

     

    Anyway, it seems like a lot of effort, but some countries still have businesses making a living from repairing very low-cost consumer items like radios and kettles.

    If it is still worthwhile doing (I don't know the costs of labour or the costs of Pi's in India) then perhaps someone is doing it, but you can quickly figure out for yourself if you estimate that it could take an hour to swap out parts and requires some reasonable competence. In many countries the cost of labour is too high. But it could be worthwhile in other countries.

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