Component Level Course

I'm sorry to say that you're about 10 years too late. Modern consumer electronics is not designed to be reparable at a component level. One might even say that it is designed to be irreparable. Of course it is still *possible*, but it is not possible to simultaneously make a living and charge a price which compares favorably with buying new.

In article , snipped-for-privacy@sholweger.fs.com (known to some as Steve Holweger) scribed...

Good luck. The vast majority of consumer-grade goods appears to be made specifically to AVOID being reparable.

If you enjoy tinkering with electronics, however, and the idea of building your own goodies, I would strongly recommend starting by getting your amateur radio license. The study materials and books will give you a decent grounding (pardon the pun) in basic electrical and RF theory, something you'll need to build on for everything else.

Visit these links for more details.

Happy hunting.

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Lots of folks dabble in electronics as a hobby. Some voc-tech schools and some community colleges offer what you need:

1/ DC circuits 2/ AC circuits 3/ Digital electronics 4/ Linear electronics 5/ Microprocessors

... and so on.

Those are generally lab courses.

You don't have to take courses, but do it if you can.

It's a good way to learn electronics, necessity being the mother of... well, learning, in this case.

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John English