I work on cars for a living, specifically auto body. For me seeing how things come apart, and how they go together amaze me. What I'm trying to say, is every thing that be built can be taken apart and fixed. It's all dependent on knowledge and ability. Watching some thing like this I can appreciate the effort and ability of fixing any thing. Weather it be a computer, or a bunch of sheet metal

Woohoo! Been waiting for part 2 of this!!

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you're enjoying these! They are super fun to make.

Amazing video. Congrats, you made a very nice profit on the PS4 Slim. I learnt so much on this video. Well done, great repair and really interesting to see the thought process. Just out of interest what temperature do you have your hot air at when doing the power I/C and smaller charging chip? Looking forward to the 3rd video :-)

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. My hot air station is pretty much always set on the same temp and air speed...I just adjust how close or how far I am from the chip when I'm using it. It's set on 1100F (593C).

@Mymatevince

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Steve :-)

@tommybirchify

5 жыл бұрын

I need to say something... you both are amazing

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Really appreciate the positive comment.

@tommybirchify

5 жыл бұрын

@@Tronicsfix you are very much welcome

feels great watching you repair. You actually are pretty good at masking any frustration. You take it cool even if something isnt working and you express well. Great job Steve.

@Tronicsfix

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

what a great fix and the thermal cam kit introduction was excellent as well.

Your deep knowledge and skills on troubleshooting/repair is awesome! Keep it coming man.

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks...glad you're enjoying these videos.

Great video, love to see you guys battle it out and learn some stuff on the way. Specially funny to see the difference between you replacing that powerchip and Vince trying the same in one of his videos earlier, constantly blowing away the chip. Keep it up guys, great stuff.

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

I blew it away too...I just didn't get a good shot of it so it didn't make it in the video! Vince does much better with this stuff than I did before I gained experience. Glad you're enjoying the videos. We're enjoying making them!

So fun to watch these videos! Great work out there

Love this show! Really innovative. Best internetainment so far. You guys are both good in different ways. Can't wait to see the end.

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you're enjoying it.

IT'S Nice to see you around !! GREAT WORK !

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Glad you're enjoying the videos.

That one looked hard. Good job!

great video and very well explained i,m enjoying this series of videos. i came across your channel through my sub to vinces channel and i think this challenge is a great idea and when its done i hope you do another one maybe sticking to gaming fixes Retro or current machines, oops theres another 2 chalenges lol

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you're enjoying these. If/when we do another series I'll probably not be doing any of these newer consoles.

Really fun video series so far from My Mate Steve and TronicsVince ;)

Please never stop this. I love challenges

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

This is my first and I have to say that I'm really loving it as well.

im learning alot. keep up the good work :). you are awesome :)

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you're enjoying these.

"I'm here because you broke something" hahaha! Totally one for my father.

Good competition so far!

I love this channel. Thank you.

The way I check hot spots is pour isopropanol alcohol over the part of the board and look for the bubbles works every time

Watching your videos, now I know, if I do want to buy any refurbished electronics on eBay, who to trust to have done it right!

I have subscribed to your channel now thanks to this cool idea of the challenge with My mateVince. Really fun, and good luck (I won't tell you who I'm rooting for though).

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub! Glad you're enjoying it. Vince is awesome!

You should use Isopropanol alcohol on the part that gets hot it will evaporate quickly on the part that is heating up!

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Why do that when I have a cool new toy to try?

@MrMeskiokas

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tronicsfix considering the real FLIRs price I'm also interested in buying the phone version. You're using it for a while now.... Would you recommend it to buy?

this was a difficult repair , nice work

Great fix Steve!

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thankyou for this video. This was so fun to watch.

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed. Season two is coming up in Feb!

buy and fix vives Steve, great videos :)

Thanks this video definitely helped on switch repairs

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Enjoyed making it!

amazing man loving these switch repais seriously

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you're enjoying them! They're pretty fun...except when I can't fix them!

@1995sharaku

5 жыл бұрын

@@Tronicsfix yeah i feel that, i fixed a short on my own Switch Yesterday by replacing the Video Chip in the Back of the board, Just to Walk into the next issue of Not getting any Image on my Switch, just the Backlight and Sound is working lol Docking is also not displaying Picture In other words i have the EXACT Same switch now as "my mate vince" in His last Video about the Switch U sended him. Its the Same behavior, just wish He would have succeeded in fixing it to i would have a Idea how to proceed now haha At least it turns on now, before that it was neither charging and turning on

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Yep...I've got 3 on my desk that I haven't fixed yet. I think one might have a faulty GPU chip. Be sure to let us both know if you ever fix it.

Great job! I love your repair videos and how you show troubleshooting the problems from end to end. PCB diagnosis is much simpler than I feared.

great work man :D

Awesome fix on video as always

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Funny shirt. Hahahahahaha😂😂😂😂 "I'm here because you broke something"

@ColdShadowHD

5 жыл бұрын

A Condom

Really cool video man.

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Good video and great series between you's two loving both the videos from you's two so far, i'm catching up on the series, But I do have 1 complaint :( I honestly think you should've replaced the thermal paste, especially considering the switch is known to get ridiculously hot warp under long use :(

Great video Steve.

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@CLC-1000

5 жыл бұрын

@@Tronicsfix You're very welcome.

Very nice job.Greetings from Croatia!

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Croatia! Thank you.

How did you learn how to do all these repairs? This is a hobby that I could get into. Keep it up!

What a great video! Super thorough. Fun challenge idea. - B + E

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks guys!

This was amazing.

I love my thermal imager, too. I've found a relay in a car pulling a slight load, not enough to click the relay, but enough to kill the battery in a few hours or a couple days. Ended up being some idiot wired a switch and used the relay wire for a ground.. under the dash relay was in engine compartment

@Tronicsfix

4 жыл бұрын

Yes...super helpful. I used to be a car mechanic...interesting job!

@brianleugs159

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tronicsfix lots of fun times with cars. Have to say I love your videos taking electronics apart, i do it sometimes on car modules to see if they are corroded or something is broke

It was a good fix but you have missed speaker cables, they are stuck between heatsink and cpu.

Hi nice video if you look at the chip you replaced at 13:41 you can see a blow hole at approx 1 o'clock.

@uncertainfuture8707

5 жыл бұрын

Good eye!

Thoroughly enjoyed the video and you earned a new subscriber. Any reason you didn't clean off the thermal paste and apply new?

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it. Several reasons, it looked like it was still plenty good enough...I normally pretty much always replace it. Also, in the flurry of filming I didn't remember to replace it.

"Copper Button Clothing" lol!

Great fix

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you're enjoying these videos.

5:52 yep you really have to check the fuse since its not a macbook board where the fuse never fail 7:00 you need more flux thats not a proper amount for reflowing, you know you really have to flood the whole board with flux to do it then clean it with IPA and ultrasonic clean it

I don't know if you're cutting it out or not, but man is it hard to watch a QFN package get replaced with the original unleaded solder.

I'd like to see you fix a quest or something like that :)

That "charge chip" is the USB/MyDP matrix controller, it does the switching between USB and DisplayPort alt mode when the dock is connected/disconnected, that's why it's connected to the video chip.

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Good to know! Thanks for the info. Sounds like you should be doing some of these repair videos.

@Jdbye

5 жыл бұрын

All I really did was look at the iFixit teardown and the datasheet. I've always wanted to try doing repairs, I just don't feel confident enough in my soldering skills.

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Nice...I looked at that a while ago but somehow missed it. Glad you commented. Soldering can take a while to get the hang of. It took me a while. I just started doing it though. There are so many good soldering guides on KZread now that it would be much easier to learn.

Has a thermal camera, still prefers to touch stuff to see how hot it gets :p

Like a little lego! I got that reference instantly, love his channel!

wats your ebay store name?

Good job, but I missed the "perfect amount of thermal paste" :D

Very skilled ❤ wow god bless you

What are the common reasons for a chip shorting out even when all other components are just fine? A bad quality charger with lots of ripple? A electric discharge from the charger? Static through the port?

No new compound paste on CPU? Probably you did put some off-screen... Otherwise perfect fix and good video (came here from Vince...).

@williambbq

5 жыл бұрын

Hopefully he did, since it looked like he trapped wires between the heat spreader and the pipe.

@CorrectCrusader

5 жыл бұрын

He addressed later that he does it off camera

You make SMD chip swapping look painless.

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks...it hasn't always been like that for me. I'm getting better.

@user-bn8pg7os8d

3 жыл бұрын

TronicsFix nice shirt

Awesome , really informative. Could you explain a little bit more abut the dead shorts on the capacitors. Can see you check both sides and middle but am a little confused at the process. Thanks! Great video subscribed

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

You just need to check each side. One side should have 0 resistance to ground...the other side should not. BUT as shown in the video even if both sides short to ground that doesn't necessarily meant that it's a faulty capacitor.

@boastyy

5 жыл бұрын

Iv got ya! Thanks for taking the time to explain mate, much appreciated.

So nice , i watch Vince too ...coincidence ...

Amazing repair! I have a quick question though if you don't mind! How to you reflow the tiny legs on the chips by moving the solder across them. Every-time I do that, I always bridge them with solder and have to fix the bridge :/ I've seen people do it and it looks nice and easy and the solder never bridges for them. I'm probably doing something wrong :P Any advice would help, thank you!

Great video. Thank you. How do you know what capacity the capacitor have that you replaced?

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't know. When I need to replace something I just take the same part from a junk board.

You earned a subscriber

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for subbing! Glad you liked the video.

The DRAMA!

Talk about 'fine' work.....that was some sleek soldering. Quick question does that mean the battery that came with it and the first black chip you replaced not faulty?

@6:04 the black square next to the battery port looks okay, then in @8:11 it looks like it fried, you stated it got hot there, but what caused it do look burnt? @9:26 you called it a thermal pad.

Good vid !!!. What is the function of the second chip you replaced ?.

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

It has something to do with the charging...not sure exactly what.

Do you ever do motherboard repairs for pcs?

Where do you get your replacement chips?? Or do you just re"place" them right after you remove them??

Great job, however for anyone looking to do this for profit, I really feel like $36 in profit makes it totally not worthwhile.. you really do need some skill, patience, and luck for this to work. To me, that seems like it should be worth more than $36. I guess my question is, why are people prepared to pay $120 for something that's broken, and only $60 more for the same thing that isn't broken?

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

People pay crazy money for broken stuff! For this challenge we were only allowed to sell on eBay...that means we have to pay eBay fees. That alone eats up 13% just in fees. There would have been a larger profit if I could have sold locally. Also, keep in mind that when you're bying broken you never know for sure what you're going to get so making $36 isn't ideal but at the same time sometimes you get something really easy and make $100 for 15 min or work. You have to look at the whole picture not just one item. If you haven't yet, have a look at my final video in this series. It shows profit for the entire contest.

@hyperfocus4866

5 жыл бұрын

@@Tronicsfix EXCATLY!

Does that mean the charging chip was good all along (if the battery area was grounding)?

I am voting for both guys great stuff peace and love to our allies \0/

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you're liking the videos.

I love your t-shirt! It's so true too!! :-)

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Ha, ha...thanks!

I know it's fine because it'll never be seen by the end user but every time you open one of these, it strikes me how nasty that thermal goop on the heat pipe looks

i wish i had hot air station, *checks the price* , never mind

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Ha, ha...yes, they are expensive for good ones.It took me a long time to save up for it when I bought my first one. They are amazing for soldering though!

@AlojzJakob

5 жыл бұрын

i got some yihua station and its really good for the price, its less than 100$

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Nice! That's a low price.

@konnorbowen5246

5 жыл бұрын

The 858d is very good, $25 or so

@hmangaihzualatlau468

5 жыл бұрын

i have a nice one for $42 new

No new thermal paste?

awesome man

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

When is your Part 3 video coming out? MyMateVince already uploaded his Part 3 video.

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, just watched it. Great video! I'll be uploading in a few days. I normally upload on Friday but might get it up a bit sooner.

I fix my Wii U when I was watching your video

His shirt: I'm here because you broke something. And then: If it isnt broke, i'll fix it till it is.

What's the USB charge monitor you use?

Hahahaha Where can I get that shirt? It is absolutely amazing XD

Did you reapply fresh thermal paste to the cpu?

nice video!

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

dont you renew the therma paste?

When I grow up I want to fix phones and console and TV an everything

Louis Rossmann says..... " use alcohol !!!"

Just a thought/question, how were you sure it was the chip? Because you replaced both the capacitor and the chip before testing. I’m just confused is all.

What can I do if my ps vita doesn't recognize my memory card. It was working yesterday but today nothing? What do you recommend doing?

I would love a link to your ebay sellers page @Steve

I’ve noticed you haven’t replaced the thermal paste on the heat sink. Any reason in particular you didn’t reapply thermal paste?

@ebutuoy4811

5 жыл бұрын

He only partly put it together to try it and show it working. How do you know he never put any thermal paste on when he fully put it back together off of camera.

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Normally I do. The thermal paste in this one was in good shape though.

@gabesennheiser

5 жыл бұрын

@@Tronicsfix you always want to reapply new paste, when you remove the mating components that have the paste in between them and put it back on with old paste you can create air bubbles and/or a poor thermal connection resulting in future overheating. ~ sincerely a PC repair guy.

Use alcohol. Look for bubbles

so many small socket evrywhere...

could I get a link to the song used in this video its really nice!!!

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

I don't remember what it is! It's from Epidemic sound.

If the fan spins, its fixed ! Thats the rule !

Steve could you please suggest a affordable hot air station for doing a few jobs, the hakko you use is very expensive.

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, I don't have experience with the cheaper ones. I'm going to test one at some point but haven't yet.

Glad to see you're doing well with your profits. Though it's rather disappointing to see that you're not willing to step out of your comfort zone and broaden your horizons as to what you can fix (not just electronics consoles in particular), that was part of the point of this. Otherwise what hope does Vince have if all you're going to do is constantly make an easy profit on consoles.

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

This is a contest. Part of the point is to show how you can still make good money fixing stuff. It's not that I'm not willing (I'm more than happy to) to step out of my comfort zone...it's a contest/challenge. I'm playing within the rules (we can buy anything we want) to win. That being said in any further challenges we do I'll probably not to any newer consoles.

@Raine-Cat

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is a contest, but it just seems like you're playing a little too safe by going with what you know, now there is nothing wrong with that it obviously works. It's just that the safe bet is often... boring or predictable. Though I do enjoy your content, it's nice to see these videos as you clearly know what you're doing, they are well thought out and you explain what you're doing. Though it would be nice to see even some variation, not just consoles. But again it's your content your money you can do as you will. I don't have have a problem with how your doing it it's just a small gripe is all.

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Yep...I totally get that and have no problem with it. This second video actually was a risk for me. I've got 3 Nintendo Switches on my desk right now that I've not been able to fix. This one could have easily been not fixable. I'm sure that didn't com across very well on the video and I get your point, I'm just saying it's not as straight forward as one might think. The next challenge series we do will be different and that's probably one of the things that we'll change. Thanks for the input and I'm glad you're enjoying the videos!

Profit $36.48 - for 2+ hours ? Is it worth it ? I was lucky with iPhone 6s Plus. Bought it for £120, new screen £20 and sold it for £280, £140. On 2nd one I profited £100, but they where lucky finds from Facebook :D

Where do You get needed chips from?

@alijaafar9828

5 жыл бұрын

Dead motherboards

what is that gel you are putting on the chip?

@Tronicsfix

4 жыл бұрын

Flux

i want a broken switch to repair but can't find them for any less than 149

@Tronicsfix

5 жыл бұрын

Keep watching...you'll probably find some. That being said I think the prices have gone up since I started making videos about them. I used to buy them regularly for $89.