so let's talk for a moment about the
situation with schematic okay because
understanding knowing how to read the
schematic is a hugely useful skill right
you can short-circuit your way around
having a schematic with things like
forums where they'll say hey this is a
common problem this is the specific part
that rings so anytime you can find sort
of you know anecdotal story right if you
can trust that source then that's a way
around the schematic but really it's
nice to go to the source yeah I mean you
want to learn how to think
I mean I'm such a big fan of that I hate
monkey-see monkey-do repair you know I I
I really think a thoughtful approach in
schematics you know they seem intan
intimidating but really they're they're
not especially in this example like what
are we talking about here the line
between the battery to the the you know
the the power chip has two things in it
you know one capacitor and one resistor
so in this case this was really easy to
find look at the schematic find the
battery find a connection to it the
resistor is labeled so in this case this
was our 61 this particular register we
searched for it through the rest of the
document we can find the our 61 this
label is a zero ohm resistor so this is
a sort of information that I'm telling
you you have to go and find it for
yourself now I fix it is the repair
manual for everything we want as much
information to be available online as
possible right we do not put circuit
schematics on I fix it why don't we do
that right the reason is that they are
copyrighted and we have been asking the
manufacturers permission to republish
them and they refuse to grant us
permission so google it it's really the
best answer they are available there
online servers find them they get taken
down in order to get the schematic which
is necessary for a lot of these repairs
you have to go those sources outside of
iFixit for now right and you know what
support the right to repair X I mean
because there's there's really no reason
to not have the schematic it's like
having sort of a picture of a city you
know it's it's it's just a picture it
doesn't there's there's no software and
programming and things that you can't
turn a schematic into an iframe so
that's why we are working on legislation
to require manufacturers share the
circuit schematics with us so that we
can access them legally because right
now a lot of repair people are having to
work a bit underneath the table to give
access to this command there's no reason
for that especially in this case the
capacitors let's say that you wanted to
do the right repair and replace them
then those are commonly available they
have you know a couple of details the
size and a value of capacitance look it
up on the schematic and you order it
from no there's no way to tell visually
what the rating of it right there is
right and it's very straightforward to
look that up and order it from the
schematic and and otherwise you have to
have a donor board to take them from
right you know and and that's that's
ridiculous