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I repair farming equipment for a living. This is Opti-5, an onboard computer for a Ponsse logging harvester. EOL, no spare parts. Ponsse wants you to upgrade to Opti-7 which cost $9k. I made it live by replacing two dead 50W regulators and saved the customer about $7k. 37
I repair farming equipment for a living. This is Opti-5, an onboard computer for a Ponsse logging harvester. EOL, no spare parts. Ponsse wants you to upgrade to Opti-7 which cost $9k. I made it live by replacing two dead 50W regulators and saved the customer about $7k.
How much for undercoating?
Nice Intel cpu. Did you play doom on the harvester?
Hmm, you should invest in an ESD mat
You charged them $2000 dollars?
This is very interesting, I’m a farmer and I’ve seen these boards on the John Deere combines. I suppose these would be hard to find/replace. I will save your username in case I ever run into a problem like this. Thank you for sharing
Teach me.
That’s really great work you’re doing. These tech companies scalp these farmers and rob them for everything they’re worth. so refreshing to see you doing this work honestly!
People like you are amazing. How did you learn to repair electronics that companies don’t want you to repair
Real question here, does this run farming simulator ?
I’m just playing devils advocate here but say this upgrade included a hardware fix that resolved a performance issue. In a year the customers harvester breaks down because hey didn’t receive that fix costing them $15k. Did you you do due diligence in making sure you understood all aspects of the upgrade and communicate the risks and benefits to your customer? EOL can mean the product is obsolete, it can also mean it’s a piece of crap we need to get rid of it before customers find out. I’m not saying you are wrong, just recommending you make sure you are right with this approach.
Right to repair, not replace. !!!
Can anyone tell me why a farming machine need that much processing power?
Can someone explain why does harvester need fully functional PC?
I look forwards to seeing your posts – just wanted to tell you that 🙂 Love seeing people out there using their skills for good, snubbing corporate bullshit and reducing waste in the process.
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Looks like a consumer-grade chip on a custom embedded board, even designed with a PCI(e?) in mind. But of course it has to use proprietary IOs, not something standard like USB, so of course it’s not easily replaceable.
9k for a Core2 era board… shameless.
Enough to reflect the importance of professional knowledge.
*brofist*
You’re doing god’s work out there good man.
I’m guessing that part is >5 years old probably even more. A $2000 repair should’ve been considered beyond economic repair. There is probably more problems than the one you found meaning it will die again, and again.
These things are not EOL because the manufacturer doesn’t want to support it anymore. Rather it is because the components are themselves obsolete and the tech is old.
What are those Inductor + MLCC combination things?
This is so Sci-Fi, I love it.
“Better get that system board repaired on the logging harvester or there’ll be hell to pay. “
I love seeing your posts pop up. Have you ever considered making videos of you repairing these and going through the troubleshooting steps?
Op doesn’t promote himself enough.
https://youtube.com/channel/UCCPN9b6-ObiibNCzJ5URAzQ
https://www.ribit.se/
Warning: it’s all Swedish
interesting to see someone with my exact same job. I need to post some more judging by the amount of upvotes this receives. Good effort on finding the fault, rip trying to find any problem that isn’t power related.
Nice
This one lookes like a actual computer in a decent format compared to another you posted some time ago. I wonder if you can buy those modular computers boards . The format looks nice, clean and compact
i bet you won him as a lifetime customer 🙂
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Hello from a colleague in Norway! We have the same policy there. Keeping the machines going as long as we can, before doing the opti 7 upgrade. We still get the occasional opti + and silver opti in for repair. Depends heavily on what components are broken though, if we are able to fix them.
Why do those capacitors have such big sheilds around them?
OP you out the $ in the right places in your title, i love you, thats all i have to say.
Thanks, you’re doing blessed work. For serious.
Stupid design, to have fairly high power regulators inside the main control hardware box. You’re doing a great thing, man! Right to repair is THE WAY!
This is awesome. Good work.
Did they friggen use a sbc/som for a tractor? Why?
Hello. I’m new to this. Can you circle the regulators on the picture so I know what they look like? Keep doing what you’re doing. Thank you.