Spent $80 on a thermal camera attachment for my phone to find overheating components and it saved a whole afternoon of guesswork on a stubborn laptop.

The laptop kept shutting down randomly, and the camera pinpointed a failing voltage regulator on the motherboard that was at 95°C, letting me fix it in under an hour instead of swapping parts for days.

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ivanc4518d ago

My old Flir One thermal camera was a game changer for board repair. I found a shorted capacitor on a TV power board that was too hot to touch but looked normal. Without that heat signature I would have just kept testing every part in the circuit. It turns a needle in a haystack search into a quick visual check. Totally worth the money for anyone doing this kind of work regularly.

alex_hall9117d ago

Remember how @ivanc45 said that? My friend found a hot chip on a laptop board the same way last week.