I recently got access to a broken Siemens Dressman TJ10500. It's a pro-sumer device that helps you straighten shirts without the tedious ironing. It looks like this: The unit was described as "not heating" or "cooling rapidly". The front panel and every other feature seemed to be functioning just fine. I will describe how to tear down the unit, what can go wrong, what I did to repair mine and how well it works. Teardown To get inside the unit, there are many screws that need to be undone: around 5 at the back of the unit (except the air filter ones), two below (left side with the unit facing you). Then you need to carefully lift up the plastic trim that surrounds the LCD and controls, all around, you will have two more screws just next to the airbag. Most of the screws are Torx T20, some of them are Phillips (PH2 I think). With those undone, you can remove the left [metal sheet] panel, that gets you access to everything inside the unit. The m...
Electronics and programming interspersed at various levels of difficulty.