Taking Care of your Electronics

All equipments, devices and gadgets that are made of electronic parts have the tendency to be broken or damaged and there are several of them at your home and office. I’m glad to be an Electronic Technician where I have the means of acquiring the necessary parts to repair or replace such damages.

The most common electronic device that we often carry around is "Cellular Phones" and "Laptops". We often use our Mobile Phones to contact our friends or a hot line for some emergency cases. While, laptops are commonly used by Businessman, Students or just anybody else. Thus, if you really want to take care of your electronic devices such as a laptop then you should buy protective covering from any unintentional damages such as accidentally bumping it on a hard object. The same thing goes to all mobile phone or small size gadgets.

Protective Covering


A good "protective covering" is actually one of the most important tool for every equipment or electronic devices that are always carried along by the user such as our example above. You just have to make sure that the covering can really deliver the necessary protection that your valuable electronic item needs.

Accidental damages do often occur more to smaller devices particularly, mobile phones. I have already seen several individuals who were probably careless where their gadgets slipped out of their hands. On some of those incidents that I happen to observe, some of them just literally got completely disassembled upon impact where all the parts got scattered around. The most unfortunate ones got their screen broken which happens if the device had a terrible landing on a hard surface of the ground.

Mobile phone manufacturers have already seen this issue so they immediately manufactured protective covers which can make the phones even more fancier to look at.

Mobile Protective Pouch

Protect Against the Thieves

Let's take laptop as an another example where thieves loves to steal from anyone especially someone who is just careless about placing or leaving their valuable things lying around especially in a populated area. You have to learn the fact that not all places are safe from thieves. So its always best to keep an eye on your stuffs or you can also ask a friend to look after it for you provided that you will come back for it in just a matter of few minutes.


Power Surge Protector

For household equipment or devices, a power surge protector is very important for protecting all of your electronic items at home. But for those who does not know may ask, "What is a power surge?"

A power surge is a sudden "huge spike" or "sudden increase" of voltage from your power source specifically, from your wall outlets. One good example why this happens is due to a lightning strike hitting the power line near you. Let's say that the normal voltage output from your wall outlet is 120 volts. But due to a power surge, it can go over 120 volts which could damage your electronic components. If the power surge is too high then it could start a fire which is the most dangerous and worst possible outcome.


Now through a power surge protector in place, if a sudden fluctuation of voltage occurs the excess energy will be absorbed and then redirected into the grounding wire which neutralizes it out completely.

Electronic Service Technician

If it happens that your electronic component is suddenly showing signs of not working properly or it completely malfunctioned then do not force it to work because it will surely not. Doing so will actually add further to the damage. Thus, if you have no knowledge about electronic repairs then it is best to call a service technician to fix it for you.


You have to know that electronic components are considered machines. It is a nature of every machine that when one of its parts got broken, the whole machine will stop or it can no longer function correctly. The only way to fix the problem is for a technician to replace the broken part.

Follow the Instruction from the Manual

Every electronic components comes with a manual complete with set of instructions on how to use and properly maintain them. It is basically important that you must read it because the manufacturers knows it best than a person who tries to figure it out for himself. Majority of manuals also give tips which provide a better user experience on the product in use.


Keep it Away from Children and Pets

Children and pets knows nothing much about electronic component so you have to keep it away from them. If it happens that your pet especially a cat manages to pee on your laptop and the urine got right into the circuit board then its over. Let's just hope that you got an external backup with all of your important files or documents. As for children, you will never know what they can do if they manages to grab your phone and play with it.


Keep them Clean

Finally, always properly clean your electronic components. For those that have complicated mechanical features, you have to refer to the manual on how to properly clean them. The cleaning instructions should be found at the maintenance section of the manual.



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