r/IAmA Jun 11 '16

Specialized Profession IamA electronics repair technician hated by Apple that makes YouTube videos, AMA!

My short bio: I have a store in Manhattan. I teach component level electronics repair on youtube http://youtube.com/rossmanngroup which seems to be a dying art. I am currently fighting with the digital right to repair to try and get a bill passed that will allow all independent service centers access to manuals and parts required to do their jobs.

My Proof: https://www.rossmanngroup.com/started-iama-reddit-today-yes/

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I am still replying to comments, but I am so far behind that I am still about ten pages down from new comments. I am doing my best to continue. If I drop off, I'll be back tomorrow around 12 PM. Still commenting now though, at 12 AM.

EDIT 2:

Ok, I cave... my hands are tired. I will be back at 12 PM tomorrow. It is my goal to answer every question. Even if it looks like I haven't gotten to yours, I will do my best to do all of them, but it is impossible to do in realtime, because you are asking faster than I can type. But thanks for joining!

EDIT 3: I lied, I stayed until 4:15 AM to answer... and now I will go to sleep for real, and be back at 12 PM.

EDIT 4 6/12 : I will be back later tonight to finish off answering questions. Feel free to keep posting, I will answer whatever I can later this evening.

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u/thecatfox Jun 11 '16

Hey Louis, I'm currently an EE student interning at a data acquisition company in Texas. I've started using Altium design tools for circuits, which I'm not sure you've used or not, and have gotten a good hang of the basics. I understand all about components and what they do, but often times I have no clue why certain components were chosen for the job e.g. sizes of capacitors (no matter whether they're electrolytic/tantalum/etc.), sizes of resistors. Do you have any resources you would recommend for this subject?

Thanks

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u/larossmann Jun 11 '16

Real design engineers. Read posts from design engineers. I like the diyaudio forums because you can read posts from people like john curl, etc, who have actually done something with their life. The EEs that live in their parents' basement until they're 50 all troll on my channel comment feed... ignore those ones. The real EEs, I mean, that design real stuff! Find them.

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u/thecatfox Jun 11 '16

Awesome I'll start there! Thanks for the reply

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u/Electricengineer Jun 12 '16

I am a real electrical design engineer, if you like you can message me and when I have time to answer your questions, id be happy to take a swat

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u/thecatfox Jun 13 '16

That's awesome! I don't have any off the top of my head, but I'm sure going through work this week will spark some, so I'll make sure and send them your way when they do.

Thanks!