Tacx Bushido fix

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Well my Bushido decided to die a few weeks back, started with randomly getting the wrong resistance on Rouvy routes, I had only just started using Rouvy so put it down to poor resistance mapping by them. Eventually got to the stage were it was wrong more than right so tried a recalibration with the Tacx app and it died completely. Being 11 months old I decided to ask Tacx/Garmin support about the warranty....basically the unit doesn't have one as it was bought from Wiggles outlet store on ebay as ex demo, Tacx says no warrany, arse.
So screwdriver out and a quick strip down showed nothing obvioustly fried, I could still connect via bluetooth but it was reading no RPMs so I was expecting the pickup leds to be broken, however they showed as working when viewed with my moby's camera. The only other none surface mount component was a capacitor, looked okay, not loose, but gave it a second wiggle and the leg disconnected from the body.

2021-02-04_02-04-55 by Old_Chad, on Flickr

£4 for a capacitor from RS and it is back working, happy days. Looking at the board the only things that could easily be replaced are the sensor leds & the capacitor, unsure if you class that as lucky or not.

[Donbot]

I'd put it down to luck if you don't normally repair electronics.

It's those types of components which tend to break if subjected to repeated shocks or vibrations.

Very common with remote controls. Though people tend to bin them instead of replacing a 10p component.

Good result on fixing it.