Claude Walks a User Through Diagnosing a Stuck Oven Relay, Saving $300 in Repair Costs
r/ClaudeAI (266 upvotes / 48 comments)·low signal
An r/ClaudeAI post (266 upvotes, 48 comments) documents using Claude to find appliance schematics, identify the relay responsible for an oven that would not cut its heating element at temperature, and work through troubleshooting and soldering tips — the poster reports saving over $300 versus a service call. This is a single anecdote, but it belongs to the same category as last week's stroke-detection post that topped the subreddit: physical-world diagnostic assistance is becoming the highest-engagement non-coding use case in a developer-heavy community. The transferable pattern is schematic retrieval plus component-level reasoning, not the appliance.