Planned Product Obsolescence of a Water Purifier

People who use Aquaguard or any water purifier in their homes find the common issue of a stable green indicator light(or whatever colour according to your model) which is a so-called LED to tell you to change your filter cartridge. In most of these models please understand that this light has nothing to do with a measured quality/life of a filter. It’s just an electronic timer which counts the time and turns on this light. Please don’t get fooled by this.

The way to reset this is, to open the back panel of your filter and find a small reset switch. Keep it pressed on while the power is on for around 30secs or so to reset the light. Then it will be back to normal. This is just kept there to get you to buy new filters from the company. The famous “Recurring Revenue model”.

To calculate the time to change your filter, just measure your daily water consumption from the purifier and calculate the number of days it will run for. A good cartridge is slated for at least 6000L of water purification(It would be mentioned on the cartridge). Please make informed decisions on facts and don’t get fooled by the planned obsolescence tactics by companies.

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Old GameBoy Advance SP Restoration

Brought this beauty back from the dead today. 🙂

Was cleaning the home and found this guy in a pretty bad state. Buttons were broken, the ON-OFF switch not working and leaked batteries. Replaced the pushbuttons salvaged from my kit, cleaned up all the battery residue and replaced it with a beefy 4000mAh rechargeable LiPo battery followed by a wash with IPC to remove all the dust between switches.

The device turned ON but then the cartridge was not working. Tore it down and found a lot of water damage(I presume). Cleaned it up and reflowed the entire cartridge to reinforce the solder and voila it jumped back to life with Spidey back on screen.

A Sunday morning well spent. ?

Gameboy Advance Teardown

Gameboy Advance Teardown

Gameboy Advance Teardown
Gameboy Advance Catridge
Gameboy Advance Catridge
Repaired Gameboy with a 4000mAh Battery
Repaired Unit with a 4000mAh Battery

Check out the video of it coming back from the dead.

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