Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy

Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by eloisius on Monday August 15, 2022 @04:47AM (#32467291)

This entire thread is people talking about planned obsolescence for _consumer_ devices and you keep making the same rebuttals. Typical home owners who buy a thermostat at Home Depot or cyclists who buy a tail light at a bike shop are unlikely to even know what digikey is, let alone order a replacement (especially if you have to buy in bulk) and do their own soldering to replace it if it's soldered in.

We all know the typical HN reader thinks a fun weekend would be spending 6 hours researching part numbers and getting out the soldering iron, but we are atypical. Most people will assume their product is at the end of its life because the warranty has lapsed and it doesn't work anymore. Companies are apparently betting on that and it's an environmental travesty.

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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by midoridensha on Monday August 15, 2022 @08:18PM (#32477550)

>Typical home owners who buy a thermostat at Home Depot or cyclists who buy a tail light at a bike shop are unlikely to even know what digikey is, let alone order a replacement

Yes, I know. I said this exact thing above.

The parent said these devices used "custom batteries", implying that Honeywell et al were custom-designing and manufacturing their own special nonstandard batteries just for these applications. This is incorrect, and needed to be corrected.

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