While launching this site I was reviewing a video from a few years back about fixing control boards. I should go ahead and say this is not something you run into that often, I see it a couple times a year.

I should also say that repairing control boards is a step above the skill level of the average appliance repair tech, me included. I used to feel guilty about that until I was doing some work for a client who owned a radio communications service here in Mt. Pleasant SC.

We started talking electronics and I asked him if he repaired the boards on the electronics he sold. He looked at me like I was crazy! He began to speak of the cost of the equipment to do this, and the training that accompanied it. And even if you have that, he explained, you have to have precise flowcharts of how they are engineered and their specs. In short, he said I was quite right to leave that area to a specialist. I am sure there are those among my peers who will disagree, but I’m taking his advise.

However, I often run into this one issue, on many sorts of appliances and I keep what I need to repair it in my van, and it pays off a few times every year.

The nice thing about this repair is that it costs very little to be able to do it, you should be able to pick up the necessary soldering kit at nearly anyplace that sells home improvement or hobby supplies. So put another tool in your profitability toolbag and teach yourself to do this simple repair.

Written By Brett Singleton
Brett Singleton is a Web Developer and SEO Consultant (amid many other things). He also markets an appliance repair company in beautiful Columbia, South Carolina. He has over 40 years of business and marketing success and endeavors to mentor and advise his fellow marketers and appliance techs.