My friend has an takeaway. He's food warmer stopped working.
He called me out at 9:30PM at night. I was on sight within 15mins as the takeaway was only 500m from my house.
Took 15 mins to find the fault, turned out to be the themostat relay board. Normally open contact not switching.
Told the my mate your termo stat controller is goosed. It's needs to be replaced. £50-80 for the unit.
Armed with electronics knowledge I thought lets investigate further and look into the circuit board itself. Took the unit home. After bit of probing around managed to find the fault. Tested the unit and worked fine. All this took 15mins.
Next day went back to the takeway. Installed the repaired termo stat unit and everything worked ok. Toolk about 30mins.
Since it was a mates takeaway I charged him peanuts. £30 all in.
If I didn't know him i would have charged:
£80 call out charge for the first hour.
£35 for the repair
£35 for the to install the repaired unit.
All in £150, What do you think?
With it being a takeaway, I got free meal while I was there!
He called me out at 9:30PM at night. I was on sight within 15mins as the takeaway was only 500m from my house.
Took 15 mins to find the fault, turned out to be the themostat relay board. Normally open contact not switching.
Told the my mate your termo stat controller is goosed. It's needs to be replaced. £50-80 for the unit.
Armed with electronics knowledge I thought lets investigate further and look into the circuit board itself. Took the unit home. After bit of probing around managed to find the fault. Tested the unit and worked fine. All this took 15mins.
Next day went back to the takeway. Installed the repaired termo stat unit and everything worked ok. Toolk about 30mins.
Since it was a mates takeaway I charged him peanuts. £30 all in.
If I didn't know him i would have charged:
£80 call out charge for the first hour.
£35 for the repair
£35 for the to install the repaired unit.
All in £150, What do you think?
With it being a takeaway, I got free meal while I was there!
