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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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ivanc456mo 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.
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alex_hall916mo ago
Remember how @ivanc45 said that? My friend found a hot chip on a laptop board the same way last week.
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black.mark6mo ago
Yeah, that "needle in a haystack" feeling is the worst. My buddy wasted a whole day on a dead graphics card before borrowing a thermal cam and spotting the bad VRM in two seconds.
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