Thread: anyone fitted a new digitiser to a nanocom evo 2

Great stuff Rob

I look forward to hearing how you go particularly, as you have pointed out, the cost of shipping to BBS and repair makes it almost a cheaper to bin it and buy a new tool.

Fingers crossed (xcuse the pun) BBS will be able to give you the information you need.

Cheers

Steve

The 40 thieves mob have 'em for ten bucks. Probably from the same factory.

It's definitely something I would try, if my Nano ever died. The Nano is not some mystical device. It could be done. I replaced the screen in an iPhone once, and it's a little more complex and miniaturised than the Nano, and harder to get into. Of course, I'm not going to try it out on my currently working Nano, but the things are going to get harder to get, as the number of cars that need them diminish. There's going to be less and less of a business model. The big issue probably won't be the screens, it will be with the proprietary nature of the firmware on the chips. I can't ever see BBS making that open source, even though the chips themselves are probably readily available.


As for needing a sticker for the screen, post #12, I doubt it's necessary. There's no reason I can see why the guts of the Nano couldn't be installed in a totally different enclosure if it came to it. Same thing probably applies to the "proprietary" leads that come with the thing. Of course, this would prevent sending the thing back for repair, but it seems most people no longer wish to do that. I don't. The things cost too much in the first place, for what they are. I think what we really pay for is the firmware that allows communication with the LR diagnostics, which is in my opinion worth it. But we have already paid for that. The board and chips are worth peanuts, and imo repairs should reflect that.

:/ rant