The electronic circuits that are being designed nowadays require more and more complexity, higher operating speeds (GHz) and smaller size. These are the main reasons why all manufacturers choose to design electronic circuits on multi-level boards. Exceptions are electronic power, due to high current requirements and high voltages (which multi-level boards are unable to provide) and simple constructions that want to keep costs low.
Repairing a circuit on a multi-level board (especially if there are more than four), in addition to being very expensive and time consuming, is often impossible.
As a result, most of today's electronic devices in the first serious damage go to recycling and not to service.
How many times has it not happened to you that the electronic device that you bought expensively and that did its job just fine without knowing the reason and in the service to inform you that the repair is unprofitable or it cannot even be repaired.
Damage to the main board of a mobile phone or a computer 99% leads to the replacement of the central board, and in the case of the mobile phone, due to the high price of the central board the replacement of the whole device is most often one way.
There are many reasons that can cause irreparable damage to a central board, the most common being moisture penetration, but not the only one. A failure of a few euro euro electronic component, which is stuck on the board and can be easily replaced, can cause a small short circuit of one or more of its levels, making it useless.
Is there a solution to the problem? Someone would ask, efforts are being made, most serious circuit designers have started in the last 3-4 years to remove from the main board those parts that have the highest probability of damage, e.g. The charging case of the new smartphones is on a separate board (cheap and easy to repair), the USB laptops of the Laptop also, but not enough. more needs to be done in general.
The total redefinition of the design of electronic products is imperative, capitalism that is interested in shortening the lifespan of objects as much as possible, forcing the consumer to buy new, loses ground in the thinking of the world. Manufacturers' endurance standards will be required for longer life. Stronger products are replaced less frequently and relieve pressure on ecosystems and power systems. We need to move from a productive vision of industrial activity to a plan aimed at expanding the life cycle of objects. It is a matter of investment, jobs, but also social guarantees.
t makes sense that a company wants to educate its customers about the benefits of its goods. But advertising swallows up our daily lives and our spaces to sell more fantasies than products.
The solution will be found through him ecological design, a new term that society is slowly beginning to chant, ecological transition in this sense requires a simultaneous change of our economic and political systems. The great battle of 21ου century has begun. Living in harmony with the planet is obviously possible, so we need to stop putting him in danger with us.
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