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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You can't really do that on a lot of modern appliances, because what fails isn't user-repairable.

The gas dryer we had from the 50s could be fixed with a screwdriver and a pulse.

The electric dryer we have now that we live somewhere without gas has a $1200 controller board (that probably costs $4 for the manufacturer) that goes out every 2 years, so we end up paying a $250/yr maintenance subscription to get it fixed under the "extended warranty".

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 8 points 6 months ago*

We had a washing machine that "failed". All that was wrong was the relays/water intake valves stopped recieving a signal. Ended up spending a week and an old raspberry pi making a stupid replacement controller because the washer was still sending signals, they just werent making it to the relays for some reason. i still can't tell what part of the original boards failed. also i only programmed one cycle and it no longer senses fill rate D= but it does wash clothes reliably assuming the water pressure (and hence fill rate) is relatively stable.

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[–] dukatos@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

That is a scam. It is easy to program the board to stop working after x seconds. Samsung did that with my washing machine - the control board died couple of months after the warranty expired.

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[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Planned obsolescence or engineered obsolescence if you prefer.

It's like light bulbs. They had a cartel form that drove DOWN the hours of use so that they would expire after only about 1000 hours of use instead of multiple times longer that some bulbs were getting.

Afaik it's one of the earliest big scams for that

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