Comment by dotancohen

Comment by dotancohen 10 hours ago

  > Why isn't a cellphone filled with epoxy?

Added cost and weight are two things that would put off consumers. The phone would also be neigh irreparable, but consumers don't seem to care for that other than replacing their screen.

rob74 8 hours ago

OTOH, adding epoxy on top of everything else would probably only reduce their iFixit repairability score from 1 to 0, so...

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amelius 10 hours ago

A conformal coating wouldn't give much more weight.

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dotancohen 10 hours ago

A conformal coating isn't "filled with epoxy", which is the concern I was answering.

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- amelius 9 hours ago
  
  There is very little empty space in a phone, so conformal coating is practically the same as filling it.
  Anyway, I wasn't disagreeing, just reasoning a bit further.
  
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  estimator7292 9 hours ago
  
  No, conformal coating and potting are extremely different things done for different reasons.
  
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  cjbgkagh 9 hours ago
  
  The point of filling it is to remove the compressible empty space so that large pressure gradients won’t crush it.
  
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NuclearPM 9 hours ago

Neigh?

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dotancohen 8 hours ago

I didn't notice that, I was dictating to Gboard. If that's what was heard, then I should probably go eat some hay and get my tail brushed.

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tagawa 9 hours ago

I think they meant “nigh on irreparable“.

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ohyes 9 hours ago

Some claim we are centaurs, we say Neigh!

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