How to find a shorted mosfet - safe & fast, no thermal camera or multimeter

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  • @Evhen_Velikiy
    @Evhen_Velikiy Жыл бұрын

    Hi Sorin! Totally agree with your methods in this video. But I have important addition! Like with GPU, when you have several phases in parallel you cant point exactly which mosfet is shorted. But there is a way! If the power from your power supply going through dead mosfet its also going through its coil! So you can take multimeter and measure voltage across coils and find exactly which one is under load right now! See, very simple! No need for thermal camera and no need to push high current, even 0.1A is enough to detect short circuit this way.

  • @dimitrismaster

    @dimitrismaster

    Жыл бұрын

    Works best if you set the multimeter in the mV range

  • @pgsss6354

    @pgsss6354

    Жыл бұрын

    You mean that only at the coil of the dead mosfet you 'll measure voltage more than 0V? Where should the power suppply be connected? At the power jack? Could you Expalin a bit more?

  • @laptopguy2230

    @laptopguy2230

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dimitrismaster explain more please

  • @dimitrismaster

    @dimitrismaster

    Жыл бұрын

    @@laptopguy2230 The voltage might be low to read in the normal volt range.

  • @Evhen_Velikiy

    @Evhen_Velikiy

    Жыл бұрын

    @@pgsss6354 Yes, you will measure more than 0V on a coil connected to the dead mosfet. Power must be connected to the shorted circuit directly. If its 19V power rail you can connect to it.

  • @bobpowell3301
    @bobpowell3301Ай бұрын

    You're the man Sorin! You found what works for you and you share it with your members. You are very talented and have a big heart. Thank you for being you!

  • @L1nK79
    @L1nK79 Жыл бұрын

    I have been following you for a long time and you are a great teacher and have interesting videos. Please ignore the negative comments and be sure that most people think only the best about you. I learned a lot from you and I'm still learning and it means a lot to me to look at some of your work at least one day. Thank you for that and greetings from Germany 😊

  • @Trist34
    @Trist34 Жыл бұрын

    've been following electronic channels for a long time, I haven't come across such an exciting course in a long time. You showed us a method that is far from modern tools. That's the old school rocks over the tool-mania. Thank you Professor.👏

  • @IS-77
    @IS-77 Жыл бұрын

    This man is ablolutetely best in electronics repair.. A genious of epic proportions. I have followed him for years.

  • @user-vb6gs8ro1m
    @user-vb6gs8ro1m Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for another great lesson professor Sorin 😊

  • @tinman9341
    @tinman9341 Жыл бұрын

    Nice, sweet, and to the point! I’ve been following you for a while and I find your instructions very informative! Thank you for what you do!!!

  • @jembermedia2298
    @jembermedia2298 Жыл бұрын

    Hi, I am a beginner student of electronics and this video taught me very well. If you post such videos for beginners, we will learn more. It's great. Keep it up.

  • @HelgiThorisson
    @HelgiThorisson Жыл бұрын

    When I had just started watching the video I said to myself, "this is going to be interesting". So I made myself a cup of coffee and watched the rest. I was right it was interesting and informational. So now it has been saved and liked. Thanks Sorin for making this educational video.

  • @SalvaBarkuti
    @SalvaBarkuti Жыл бұрын

    This is one of the most versed videos made for this matter, Sorin. Thank you! 🤗 Although probably the title should say “CC/CV power supply required”, it's fine. Excellently well explained. Concerning what you say about a “short killer”, which is something you mention hearing somewhere (Discord), and that it “triggers” you because somehow you find people using it incorrectly (“blood boils” and “insane”, you say): I know this well, Sorin, I know. It has to do with mind programming, and these things which you find @#$% are actually triggering something in you, and you react. The trigger most likely has to do with a negative mind program which you need to give up from or transmute (with the assistance of a good mind reprogramming healer if you can't by yourself) or at the very least you must learn to disable the trigger in you, so it no longer triggers you or it stops having a negative effect on you. I know this well, Sorin, and unless they are really willing to learn you cannot stop dumbass people from being dumbass; it's them who must change themselves. Thanks again. 🤗

  • @mm0077
    @mm0077 Жыл бұрын

    The other day I was watching one of your old videos about finding a short and you explained more or less the same thing and some of the videos are about 5 years old. This has been going on for too long and the connoisseurs will always try to be better than the master and I have seen it on so many platforms😅. Quote from NF "You cannot stop the world from complaining" and you cannot make them "better than factory"😂 ..We must remember it is part and parcel of the world going around at the speed of 30 kilometers per second in orbit around our Sun😅 Thank you Sorin for this wonderful lesson.

  • @greentech3152
    @greentech31523 ай бұрын

    The Genius Sorin. Love your methods ❤ This can be only from experience and a gifted mind for electronics

  • @QARepair
    @QARepair Жыл бұрын

    Thank You for this video, one of the best ! I think it will refresh brain even for experienced in repair, sometimes need to think simply logical but our heads is full and brain tricking us to look more complicated

  • @michaelkuhn8829
    @michaelkuhn8829 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much Sorin. I already do a lot of motherboard repairs. This has helped me find a short circuit on a rtx3090. ( which i could not work out due to no proper heat signal) agree with you. Those things that shall not be mentioned are a waste of money!

  • @electronicsrepairbasics_erb
    @electronicsrepairbasics_erb Жыл бұрын

    You did an amazing job Mr. Sorin. I always use coils to detect the short circuit, without a thermal camera or voltage injector, because the coils can never be connected to the ground, and that method that you used can lead to the exact place where the shorted component exists not just the MOSFET but any component that can cause a short to the ground like a capacitor, diode or IC. Note : When you short the two coils Next to GPU to the ground the voltage drops to 0.1 volts because that's coils are connected to the same power rail (+VCC GFX), because generally the CPU and GPU can have two power channels or more, and all that channels are connected to the same power rail (+VCC_Core or +VCC_GFX). Nicely done keep going.

  • @Evhen_Velikiy

    @Evhen_Velikiy

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, if you have shorted main power you can put some very low load to it and check voltage across every coil to find exactly which one is under load right now. Easy way to find which component is shorted in that part of circuit. No need for thermal camera, no risk to burn anything.

  • @electronicsrepairbasics_erb

    @electronicsrepairbasics_erb

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Evhen_Velikiy Right👌

  • @ErickMaxwell25632

    @ErickMaxwell25632

    Жыл бұрын

    Its Amazing to see Electronics Repair Basics_ERB comment. By the i'm also a faithful follower of your channel. Electronics Repair Basics_ERB, Electronics Repair School and AdamantIT are the best you tube channels that have taught me alot in these repairs. So seeing you here really uplifts my spirit. I love the solidarity.

  • @maxwarfield6699

    @maxwarfield6699

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m a complete NOOB, so please bear with me. When you say: “coils are never connected to ground” is that the same thing as saying that, they are always connected, in series? Did I get that right? Please let me know. Thank you kindly

  • @user-pz6cx8zf2y

    @user-pz6cx8zf2y

    Жыл бұрын

    @@maxwarfield6699 You need to read the basics of how buck and boost converters work in order for you to understand what's going on as regards this topic. There, you will se yourself how these coils are connected per each case...It's not so easy to answer your question with a simple "yes" or "no"...

  • @khleviejuncaseres3879
    @khleviejuncaseres3879 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant!! Super brilliant! Changing the 6Omhs to 0ohms to check which MOSFET is shorted!

  • @demirpp
    @demirpp Жыл бұрын

    Excelente seus vídeos, estou aqui no Brasil aprendendo muito com eles.

  • @aocaldas
    @aocaldas Жыл бұрын

    Great video! Saving it for future use! Thank you!

  • @Darkmonism
    @Darkmonism Жыл бұрын

    Excellent video and thank you for your time. Great insight as always

  • @icommandoi145
    @icommandoi145 Жыл бұрын

    Someone was looking for a short finder but instead found Sorin's short fuse :D hahaha love it, and great info on using the power supply.

  • @TheMausebert
    @TheMausebert Жыл бұрын

    I have learned so much from you. Keep up the good work :)

  • @ros100200
    @ros100200 Жыл бұрын

    try to never let people trigger you. happens every day, keep the good thing going my friend, im learning from you. thanks

  • @musasiziderek3907
    @musasiziderek3907 Жыл бұрын

    I repaired a shorted mosfet using "a sorin style" now the problem was when the customer asked me what I had put..... Sorin fuse🤣🤣🤣 and it worked nonstop ...but am hoping to replace that mosfet after some time coz the customer was in a hurry

  • @musagainstnos
    @musagainstnos Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Sorin this is a nice approach to find a shorted mosfet

  • @almerodupreez
    @almerodupreez2 ай бұрын

    Very helpful! Thank you Sorin. Wish I saw this video earlier. Make more videos like this one

  • @ivandimov7090
    @ivandimov709011 ай бұрын

    I appreciate your work, I wish you a lot more to learn from you. Stay healthy.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @isidrotan7468
    @isidrotan7468 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this technique. Watching from Perth western Australia.

  • @gonzaloaliaga
    @gonzaloaliaga Жыл бұрын

    Excelente video...Short Killer es usado con aparente éxito para levantar cortos en las pantallas LCD....

  • @Linux4thePeople
    @Linux4thePeopleАй бұрын

    Sorin, you are the real deal! Thanks for the great video!

  • @nishantchauhan5558
    @nishantchauhan5558 Жыл бұрын

    So what ppl cal u by names.u r doing a good job .. free education for all.. good job indeed. God bless u nd ur family.

  • @sergelavallee913
    @sergelavallee913 Жыл бұрын

    I have to admit..... you're ....very smart men! Thank's Sorin!

  • @TONYCASTILLO66
    @TONYCASTILLO66 Жыл бұрын

    thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and greetings from El Salvador in Central America

  • @farajiabilahi7393
    @farajiabilahi7393 Жыл бұрын

    wow! just wow, the lesson is well understood, thank you very much.

  • @tiggydorset9041
    @tiggydorset9041 Жыл бұрын

    Recently found your channel. Love you already :) Thanks man.

  • @billguedesbr
    @billguedesbr Жыл бұрын

    Nice video, I'm from Brazil and I understated you very well , good job! Thanks for share.

  • @kpelectronics
    @kpelectronics Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely right people wants easy ways without knowing that sometimes its not correct. Something that boils my blood when I see some people wanting to teach in some youtube channels but they don't have it right . They think they do but at the end with what you learned you know they are not right .

  • @johnsmith-tr3dh
    @johnsmith-tr3dh Жыл бұрын

    Awesome video. I learned so much as usual.

  • @aidennymes6335
    @aidennymes6335 Жыл бұрын

    I love the alcohol spraybottle technique. repaired my first mainboard that way.

  • @2368rafa
    @2368rafa Жыл бұрын

    Hi Sorin thank you very much for this video. I in the laboratory source Koraxxx 30V - 10A, I can limit the current or voltage but when it reaches that limit it is blocked and you have to be pressing to unlock, and I do not just see how to test the capacitor shorts, and I also observe that depending on the type of cables you use for its thickness can give one value or another.

  • @vdtran69
    @vdtran69 Жыл бұрын

    Learned something every time Thanks

  • @gregorymcclure4733
    @gregorymcclure4733 Жыл бұрын

    Great Job! I will learn to use this method. Thank you.

  • @shirshendudasgupta611
    @shirshendudasgupta611 Жыл бұрын

    Sorin you are absolutely great. I wish I can meet you one day.. U r legend .. Thank you for teaching us something new..

  • @benaumark
    @benaumark Жыл бұрын

    thank you. Very important lesson

  • @garrithcronje6515
    @garrithcronje6515 Жыл бұрын

    I have always just learnt a lot from your videos and techniques. Don't bother about other people's comments

  • @basshuntet6128
    @basshuntet6128 Жыл бұрын

    Greetings from Malaysia Sorin, it's 1am here. I should sleep but your video is the priority here😂

  • @dpyles9396
    @dpyles9396 Жыл бұрын

    Good stuff Sorin! Well done.

  • @androiduser1412
    @androiduser14124 ай бұрын

    One of the greatest videos I've ever seen

  • @serdarxxx1073
    @serdarxxx107311 ай бұрын

    The first important Tool is the Brain and know what are you doing. Sorin you are a great asset to us . Thank you 👍

  • @bitrehab
    @bitrehab Жыл бұрын

    Excellent solution. BTW Sorin you can forget about your morning coffees, it is more than enough if you mantra that "short finder" thing a few times and and it will rises up your blood pressure immediately, more than any caffeine. :D

  • @IT_Tech_MPK
    @IT_Tech_MPK Жыл бұрын

    Great video, it's really helpful 👍, I never know about this trick before. Awesome..

  • @youtubasoarus
    @youtubasoarus Жыл бұрын

    I have a weird laptop issue where it will power on briefly and go off (shows screen briefly with logo). So fairly sure good CPU+GPU. Without memory it will stay on but no picture, with fan spin. I tried for several hours to locate the short, even with thermal camera it was not showing, with most IC's and temperatures around 30-50c. Voltage gets around the entire board with the memory out (19v, 5v, 3.3v) and the board powered on. I've been hesitant to try voltage injection to find this short. I'm going to try this method when I have time to try again. I have watched probably 3-4+ hours of your videos the last few days to get some ideas, this one shows the most promise! Thank you again for your amazing work! Also, yes, there is a whole bank of caps shorted in parallel which makes this one hard to find.

  • @computersrepaircotesaint-l7407
    @computersrepaircotesaint-l7407 Жыл бұрын

    you never stop surprising us. WOW

  • @techNK12
    @techNK12 Жыл бұрын

    Thank for new idea sir Sorin phillipines here 😊

  • @alishah-gq6nm
    @alishah-gq6nm Жыл бұрын

    THE Best teacher Ever.

  • @max.miliccia
    @max.miliccia Жыл бұрын

    Sorry I had written in Ita. You are the best, I have learned more from you than from anyone else...! Am I mistaken or is this called the Kelvin method?

  • @ArhamComputersDhanot
    @ArhamComputersDhanot Жыл бұрын

    Hi sorin thank you so much very informative and helpfull for me

  • @ionix2000
    @ionix2000 Жыл бұрын

    Great video! And also a good lesson for ohm law 🙂

  • @baggadap
    @baggadap Жыл бұрын

    Great video, thank you Sorin! 👍

  • @SureshKumar-nk2ok
    @SureshKumar-nk2ok Жыл бұрын

    what an idea sir ,i think knowledge is wisdom after your video, still i have to learn i think videos like this ,thank you so much sir

  • @guardianmiketv1586
    @guardianmiketv1586Ай бұрын

    Good Work - Thank you for the upload!

  • @pecosimplu7070
    @pecosimplu70705 ай бұрын

    i'm trying to repair a monitor power suply and your videos are realy helpful; i'm suspecting a 3055 mosfet short thanks a lot, now you have a new subscriber good luck p.s.- your accent seems like romanian :)

  • @twesiimegyaviira2695
    @twesiimegyaviira2695 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the work you giving . you are really Geneous

  • @5000000000250
    @5000000000250 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Good job!

  • @mnemonicrulez
    @mnemonicrulez Жыл бұрын

    Amazing video as always

  • @parsaloi7977
    @parsaloi7977 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome video and lesson Master Sorin🥸

  • @Bright8888
    @Bright8888 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for showing a simple, safe and practical method to locate shorted MOSFETs and capacitors using only a good power supply. In several places in the video, you read the voltage as 'zero point zero nine', 'zero point zero five', 'zero point zero one', etc instead of saying 'zero point nine', 'zero point five' and 'zero point one'. It will be nice if you can repost the video showing the corrections in text.

  • @josed.moreno6838
    @josed.moreno6838 Жыл бұрын

    Great explanation, thanks you

  • @itstime3414
    @itstime3414 Жыл бұрын

    thank you boss, this is my first time to comment. you my mentor in electronics

  • @kpelectronics
    @kpelectronics Жыл бұрын

    Ypu are one of the best my dear Sorin ...God always bless you.

  • @followthetrawler
    @followthetrawler Жыл бұрын

    Simple and powerful example of how experience trumps toys - nice one

  • @shankkerr
    @shankkerr6 ай бұрын

    This video i liked the most . Thanks a lot for the efforts.

  • @edwilldaames9869
    @edwilldaames98694 күн бұрын

    excellent teacher ive learned a lot today

  • @davidhoueto3411
    @davidhoueto3411 Жыл бұрын

    Thank a lot Mr Sorin

  • @stanleydsouza6723
    @stanleydsouza6723 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome 👌 👏 Amazing explanation..many Thanks Sir..

  • @Franklinveterinarycenter1of4
    @Franklinveterinarycenter1of411 ай бұрын

    you are awesome!!!!! I thoroughly enjoy your videos.

  • @user-tt8ok1wv4h
    @user-tt8ok1wv4h Жыл бұрын

    Very good video 👍

  • @sherilene3040
    @sherilene30404 ай бұрын

    thanks for the knowledge you shared to us god bless you always...

  • @Stabio_PL
    @Stabio_PL Жыл бұрын

    *Sorin Best of the best!*

  • @rahulmechatronics
    @rahulmechatronics Жыл бұрын

    great lesson 👍👍

  • @Foladstudio2023
    @Foladstudio2023 Жыл бұрын

    Very helpful sir thanks

  • @iphonegoes1250
    @iphonegoes125011 ай бұрын

    Awesome trick... Thank you sir..

  • @armanesmaeily7087
    @armanesmaeily7087 Жыл бұрын

    You can use an alternative option for finding shorted mosfet. You can test every single mosfets existed on motherboard with diode test and you can just check the impedance between gate and source. And that's it and if one a mosfet which has a low impedance between gate and source , you will be 100 percent sure that the mosfet is shorted. I think this is the best and fastest way to find a shorted mosfet.

  • @Drottninggatan2017

    @Drottninggatan2017

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree. But you need a multimeter. This method is safer than to insert voltage for those that are relative new to this.

  • @Evhen_Velikiy

    @Evhen_Velikiy

    Жыл бұрын

    You cant be sure that mosfet is faulty every time you have a short. Thats why its not practical to test every time all of mosfets.

  • @armanesmaeily7087

    @armanesmaeily7087

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Evhen_Velikiyyeah i agree. In some cases if the resistance between gate and source of a mosfet is low but not completely zero , we can be suspected that the pwm ic which is related to the mosfet is faulty , but if this resistance is completely near to zero , we can be sure that the mosfet is definitely faulty.

  • @armanesmaeily7087

    @armanesmaeily7087

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Drottninggatan2017 exactly👌

  • @Evhen_Velikiy

    @Evhen_Velikiy

    Жыл бұрын

    @@armanesmaeily7087 What if you have DRMOS'es on board? You cant measure source-gate coz there is no pin outside for gates. Only way to find shorted DRMOS is to supply some safe voltage to the shorted circuit and measure voltage across power coils. When you find voltage on a coil than related mosfet/drmos is shorted.

  • @richardbalatayo5473
    @richardbalatayo5473 Жыл бұрын

    thank you.. now i have learned another way to find short..

  • @haythemwageeh146
    @haythemwageeh146 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent performance, more patience, more success all our respectation and appreciation

  • @ivandimov7090
    @ivandimov709011 ай бұрын

    Thank you Mr Sorin ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @gabrysur
    @gabrysur Жыл бұрын

    Now i really want to see you buy one and do a comparation video where you set up different faults and you compare shortkiller vs power supply.

  • @jonathaningram4672
    @jonathaningram4672 Жыл бұрын

    Very good video.

  • @sirjo22
    @sirjo22 Жыл бұрын

    Best Explanation.

  • @max.miliccia
    @max.miliccia Жыл бұрын

    Sei il migliore, ho imparato più da te che da chiunque altro...! Mi sbaglio o questo si chiama metodo Kelvin?

  • @alex-krycek
    @alex-krycek2 ай бұрын

    Thanks Sorin, you are my idol !!!

  • @bogdanbenett1229
    @bogdanbenett1229 Жыл бұрын

    Sorin's magic!

  • @asv5769
    @asv5769 Жыл бұрын

    Very good video, it would have been even better had you also drawn a part of schematics and showed which point actually got shorted to the ground.

  • @daffyduk77

    @daffyduk77

    Жыл бұрын

    people in Sorin's league generally don't need schematics

  • @justinspiredfallout

    @justinspiredfallout

    Жыл бұрын

    I feel like I also need some sort of diagram to explain it. I don't think I'm stupid, I just understand better when there is a clear diagram of what's happening. :)

  • @pgsss6354

    @pgsss6354

    Жыл бұрын

    @@daffyduk77 people watching Sorin are not in his league.

  • @daffyduk77

    @daffyduk77

    Жыл бұрын

    @@pgsss6354 Don't generalise lol I'm just here for the entertainment 🙂

  • @pgsss6354

    @pgsss6354

    Жыл бұрын

    @@daffyduk77 ...but, some of them, think they are

  • @AkhareSundaydan-pd2gt
    @AkhareSundaydan-pd2gt Жыл бұрын

    I Weldone Mr Sorib u are doing a very great job.... I am a beginner...pls where did u put the black probe of the power supply when u were looking for the shorted capacitor after shorting it itself?

  • @Bianchi77
    @Bianchi779 ай бұрын

    Nice video, thanks for sharing it, well done :)

  • @34fraser
    @34fraser Жыл бұрын

    Just brilliant!

  • @Venoms60
    @Venoms60 Жыл бұрын

    Ha ha, Now I see some use for one old powersupply I made in early -80s, max 30v and max 1A. Thank you Sorin the Wizzard

  • @ibrahimumar3268
    @ibrahimumar32684 ай бұрын

    Good work Boss

  • @malik9001
    @malik9001 Жыл бұрын

    Great video

  • @kpjVideo
    @kpjVideo Жыл бұрын

    Sorin's brain makes clicking noises, must mean he is internally short circuiting.

  • @ammunir6
    @ammunir6 Жыл бұрын

    new simple way thanks again