Hi I would like to know what course, or how to learn to repair Electronic equipment to component level.
Such as TV'S motherboards, dvd's etc...
There is a City and guilds course:- Electrical and Electronics Servicing - City and Guilds Level 2 which might teach you this I am not sure, whenever I call the colleges up there are not familiar with this question
Any advice would be appreciated.
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.
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Happy hunting.
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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