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Many older consumer products had both schematics and PCB diagrams in their manuals, if not in the operation manual, then the service manual.


It's not really older consumer products, you can find brand new ones as well. It depends on the type of product (not the typical throw-away style) and the standards used by the company producing it. For instance gear like rotary hammers, hifi amplifiers, .. in mid to top ranges typically have ver, very complete service manuals. Including schematics.


I've seen lots of schematics in old consumer manuals, but not PCB layouts.




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