today I agree even more with you! Yie-Ar Kung Fu is indeed a stupid hard game! so much time have I lost on that thing... and so much patience too! congrats on your repair! did you found the component?
The best thing about this channel is the fact you have no clue what your next move is. Its not pre scripted. And you admit you don't know things. Your dry humor just tops it off.
Those SMD capacitors have a tendency to internally short. You can see the circuit it was attached to had a via so it looks like that capacitor was only for filtering since it was going to ground. This means it would probably have worked without it.
Not the best. Other people wouldn't hesitate so much for a capacitor in that place. He's just a good learner. I doubt very much that he is really a technician.
Not a tech just a guy with a good personality and a good way of expressing it. Criticism can be good to express towards one's that need it, but believing this guy has a full time job and does this for fun and taping it for us to all see tells me he does not need it from randoms on the net
Great Fix. I don't comment often but I really need to tell you that you are inspiring to me. I am 58 and just discovering tinkering(long story). I now have a few non working projects of my own to work on. Sony Sports Discman X 2. A Fitbit watch with a failing battery and a couple others. Thank you
"probably untested" on Ebay usually means the previous owner used a can opener to dissect the device, "cleaned" the PCB with steel wool on a belt-sander, spit their chewing gum inside, put it back together with one Ikea screw thats too big, plugged it into a car jumpstarter for 36 hours, used it for an ashtray, then put it up for sale. I'm surprised there was no hamster poop inside, along with saltwater snail eggs.
I've been given a caravan tv/dvd that was new, worked for a few hours, then died completely. I'd normally open it up for a 'look' anyway but watching your videos has given me the confidence that I might actually be able to find out what's wrong with it! It could still end up a 'stupid telly' but we shall see. EDIT: I actually found a faulty component!! It took a while, and my USB microscope, but I found a blown-up 8-pin voltage regulator! It's about 3mm long so there's no way I could replace it even if I could find one to buy, but I found the bugger.
@@simonsackett Discharge the capacitors before touching them, they are what store the electricity. If it has a plug rather than adaptor some of them caps will store mains level voltage for quite some time
@@aethersx2-samsunggalaxys206 Yes, thanks. It has a 12v adaptor. I've done a lot of electrical work but never really got involved with electronics very much.
My guess is that those caps are responsible for decoupling the supply to the battery charge circuit. So, 100nF is a fair value. I don't know whether it would've helped during this repair, but some datasheets have 'typical' component configurations included to give the designers an idea on what components to place to use their parts. I'm guessing this datasheet was one of those that didn't. Regardless, an excellent repair! :D
Brother Steve was Kung fu-faulty finding. He soldered the caps fast as lighting, In fact, it was a little bit frightening' But.. he air-flowed them with expert timing. 😂👍
Discovered your channel about a week ago, and I think I've nearly watched through everything so far 😂 Thanks for the great content. I think I'll be getting my solder station out of storage 🤔
Yet again it's Steve 1, broken thing 0. 🤩 You've become one of my favorite fixers out there. I'm learning how various things breakdown and can be fixed, and am entertained to boot.
I'm an hw engineer and I really like your video, as there are fun ! FYI From user guide evaluation board of the LTC405, the Cbat is 1μF, X5R, 10V, 20%, 0603 Ref AVX, 0603ZD105MAT2A
Late to the party I know, and I'm sure you've since figured out why you need that capacitor. Even though the circuit will work without a capacitor, the cap is there to stabilise the voltage out of the regulator. The circuit will work fine but you risk spiking other components with higher voltage. Great video as always Steve!
Smaller value caps like 1uF or 0,1uF is usually fitted besides other chips/components to smoothen out the ripple on VCC rails across the board. Further away from the chip = greater values are needed. But they should be fitted as close as possible to the VCC pin of a component. More then often it probably works without it. The schematics in the datasheet for LTH7 doesn't show that a cap is needed on pin 3 for the battery. So again, it will probably work without it as well as any random ceramic cap.
When you remove a small component with hot air for testing, just move it so one leg is still soldered down, that way it's easier to probe with the meter.
Great video as always. Also watching a lot of older videos of yours lately (even found the second channel), and it is so cool to see your skill and also the gear upgrading with all the videos. :D From only the silicon mat to having what it looks like ESD mat below it. From a wooden desk in I would guess the kitchen to a dedicated lab. But one thing stayd: You being charming :D *thumbs up*
@@remko second channel is maybe a "big word", it looks more like it was his old channel since by now it is unuseed for a year. Still i came across it x)
I have to admit I was a little disappointed when the end-song wasn't the hinted The Prodigy's Outer Space @9:32. Other than that, again, as always: great work. Really enjoyed the video. Stupid game indeed. I'll be waiting for any Prodigy song in your upcoming videos Steve!
Me too, i was waiting for it, maybe copyright issues? So fortunate to have seen them in 2017 with Keef, then saw them again in summer this year, atmosphere was incredible both times 😁🐜
Surprised Stez missed the shorted cap when looking around the board. Even I saw it looked dodgy with the black spot on it. Also the resistor that tombstoned looked damaged, as the end contact was broken. That's why it tombstoned. Still if it works anyway......
You really need to get a nice set of tweezer soldering tips for your soldering station. I have a Metcal station and use a MX-PTZ tweezers and its amazing. You just grab the part like with a pair of tweezers and the part is removed or installed. Its much faster than hot air gun and less likely to damage parts around it.
That is the worst thing you could possibly do. You typically want to heat up the area all around the part you want to remove so that you don't heat shock the board.
If you do google search images you get recomended diagrams its 1uF for input cap pin4 and gnd. For output its 10uF pin3 and gnd. Also pin3 and gnd is across battery
Quite surprised the battery was still good if the battery pin of the charge manager was shorted to ground for so long. It is astonishing how many issues are from caps shorting out like that.
Nice fix! Do you happen to know a good resource for hard to find data sheets for Chinese chips that don’t come up with a Google search? I have a digital microscope (KKMOON G1200) that has no backlight for the lcd. It had died while powering it from a USB battery bank, I found a SOT-23-5 chip that was getting hot and shorting to ground, could find nothing about it but traced it to the lcd and discovered it was likely a boost converter since the surrounding components matched the example circuit for a boost converter so replaced it with a same pinout different chip (TPS61040DBVR) and have a display now but no backlight, assuming the backlight circuit died when the boost ic shorted but can’t find a data sheet for a 6 pin chip labeled KDCAR that is likely a white led driver.
my money is on the broken capacitor you lose is hiding inside the solder that was on the tip of that soldering iron anyway another amazing fix and minor spoiler its yet another case of... stop throwing away stuff that may just be a simple fix
Stupid Game!
today I agree even more with you! Yie-Ar Kung Fu is indeed a stupid hard game! so much time have I lost on that thing... and so much patience too!
congrats on your repair! did you found the component?
Love your hard works
A well-deserved like for the end credit song alone! ;-)
Very!
I liked the music of 'Way of the exploding fist", another Kung-Fu game.
The best thing about this channel is the fact you have no clue what your next move is. Its not pre scripted. And you admit you don't know things. Your dry humor just tops it off.
It amazes me how many times looking for the short finds the fault. Nice job Steve.
Thanks WanJockey! Yeah, short hunting is usually the best way to go! 👍
Those SMD capacitors have a tendency to internally short. You can see the circuit it was attached to had a via so it looks like that capacitor was only for filtering since it was going to ground. This means it would probably have worked without it.
One of if not the best TH-cam creators to watch for repairs ever! Nothing monotonous or boring, just great content!!!
It's true
Not the best. Other people wouldn't hesitate so much for a capacitor in that place. He's just a good learner. I doubt very much that he is really a technician.
Not a tech just a guy with a good personality and a good way of expressing it. Criticism can be good to express towards one's that need it, but believing this guy has a full time job and does this for fun and taping it for us to all see tells me he does not need it from randoms on the net
Yeah I'm sick of 1 hour videos. Keep it under 30minutes!
Have you watched my videos? People are saying I’m one of the best too.
Great Fix. I don't comment often but I really need to tell you that you are inspiring to me. I am 58 and just discovering tinkering(long story). I now have a few non working projects of my own to work on. Sony Sports Discman X 2. A Fitbit watch with a failing battery and a couple others. Thank you
"probably untested" on Ebay usually means the previous owner used a can opener to dissect the device, "cleaned" the PCB with steel wool on a belt-sander, spit their chewing gum inside, put it back together with one Ikea screw thats too big, plugged it into a car jumpstarter for 36 hours, used it for an ashtray, then put it up for sale.
I'm surprised there was no hamster poop inside, along with saltwater snail eggs.
Nicely done Steve 👌
Cheers Vince! 👍
honestly the most impressive thing about these videos is that he always seems to have the right capacitor or component hanging around lol
Great stuff Steve - the 60s Batman cut aways really got me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣 cheers Greg!
I've been given a caravan tv/dvd that was new, worked for a few hours, then died completely. I'd normally open it up for a 'look' anyway but watching your videos has given me the confidence that I might actually be able to find out what's wrong with it!
It could still end up a 'stupid telly' but we shall see.
EDIT: I actually found a faulty component!! It took a while, and my USB microscope, but I found a blown-up 8-pin voltage regulator! It's about 3mm long so there's no way I could replace it even if I could find one to buy, but I found the bugger.
Be careful. Tube tvs have a ton voltage going through them
@@thadofalltrades Should be ok - it's a Bauhn b-215fdv LED HD thingy. Quite new, no tubes, no valves ;)
@@simonsackett Discharge the capacitors before touching them, they are what store the electricity. If it has a plug rather than adaptor some of them caps will store mains level voltage for quite some time
@@aethersx2-samsunggalaxys206 Yes, thanks. It has a 12v adaptor. I've done a lot of electrical work but never really got involved with electronics very much.
@@simonsackett If its running on an adaptor you will be fine then
9:34
A fellow Prodigy fan salutes you.
Steve, you are imo one of the most entertaining fixers on YT. Just with some basic knowledge fixing stuff and give second life to electronics.
As a general rule, a capacitor at the input of a load circuit is used to filter the power. If you don't, it should work fine anyway.
Is there a general rule for size?
@@dacodemonk depends a bit on the current flow but i think 10uF should be good in most cases :)
My guess is that those caps are responsible for decoupling the supply to the battery charge circuit. So, 100nF is a fair value. I don't know whether it would've helped during this repair, but some datasheets have 'typical' component configurations included to give the designers an idea on what components to place to use their parts. I'm guessing this datasheet was one of those that didn't. Regardless, an excellent repair! :D
Brother Steve was Kung fu-faulty finding. He soldered the caps fast as lighting, In fact, it was a little bit frightening' But.. he air-flowed them with expert timing. 😂👍
🤣 love it brother Steve! 🤣
Don't encourage him!!!
Yeah, don‘t!
Discovered your channel about a week ago, and I think I've nearly watched through everything so far 😂 Thanks for the great content. I think I'll be getting my solder station out of storage 🤔
Jealous of you; I wish I could watch all of them "for the first time" again. Welcome man! You're in for a ride!
Stez you're getting better and better at these fixes, love your reaction's, keep them coming.
The 103 resistor looked like "EOL" (end of life), haha. Nice to see stuff repaired.
Great job steve,love how the effort and man hours were actually more than the item probably costs new.However as we know thats not the point.
Yet again it's Steve 1, broken thing 0. 🤩 You've become one of my favorite fixers out there. I'm learning how various things breakdown and can be fixed, and am entertained to boot.
I'm an hw engineer and I really like your video, as there are fun ! FYI From user guide evaluation board of the LTC405, the Cbat is 1μF, X5R, 10V, 20%, 0603
Ref AVX, 0603ZD105MAT2A
It's truly amazing how often it's just one component that burned out or whatever that replacing that fixes the whole thing.
Great as always!
Soon the 100k!!!! I've been only there since 30k, and it was not so far ago, huge congratulations for the increase !
Thanks MGN! Really appreciate the support! 👍
Late to the party I know, and I'm sure you've since figured out why you need that capacitor. Even though the circuit will work without a capacitor, the cap is there to stabilise the voltage out of the regulator. The circuit will work fine but you risk spiking other components with higher voltage. Great video as always Steve!
Smaller value caps like 1uF or 0,1uF is usually fitted besides other chips/components to smoothen out the ripple on VCC rails across the board. Further away from the chip = greater values are needed. But they should be fitted as close as possible to the VCC pin of a component. More then often it probably works without it. The schematics in the datasheet for LTH7 doesn't show that a cap is needed on pin 3 for the battery. So again, it will probably work without it as well as any random ceramic cap.
Fun video what do you do with all the stuff you fix keep it?
When you remove a small component with hot air for testing, just move it so one leg is still soldered down, that way it's easier to probe with the meter.
good channel my friend, I have the same LDK but the sound stopped working
that was expertly done. What brand of flux do you use as all the ones I seem to get are really gooey
Thanks for the Prodigy part. Loved it!
Deffo the best fix it channel out there, of course in my own opinion. Cheers
Really enjoyed this fix. On the first pan over that area I was like „that black dot, I bet it’s shot“ and it was. Sometimes it’s the easy fixes 😍
Same. I wanted him to pan back but looks like he missed it first time.
I don't care what anybody says, the raps are an absolute highlight of these videos!
I concur.
Same here
wonderful content like always Steve.. 👌
Thanks Racoon, much appreciated! 👍
Another one bites the dust! Great work as usual, Captain Bodge!
Dang! You put in so much work for that stupid little console ha
Great video as always. Also watching a lot of older videos of yours lately (even found the second channel), and it is so cool to see your skill and also the gear upgrading with all the videos. :D From only the silicon mat to having what it looks like ESD mat below it. From a wooden desk in I would guess the kitchen to a dedicated lab. But one thing stayd: You being charming :D *thumbs up*
second channel?
Second channel? You mean there is more of this good stuff? Where is it?
@@remko second channel is maybe a "big word", it looks more like it was his old channel since by now it is unuseed for a year. Still i came across it x)
Good to see you're still soldering with a blowdryer.
Nicely done Steve! Well done!
Why dont those types of caps have any markings? Just always thought that was stupid
Good to see you fix the Pocket 8 BIT there Steve another fine repair you did there - nice 1 mate 👍
nobody commented on the fact that he was defeated by Wang? Still, well done on the repair! Always impressed.
Well done Steve nice fix, btw MLC’s are normally to filter noise or ripple to ground they’re not always necessary 😊
very true!!! They smooth out that voltage line
Every time I watch you Steve you get better and better and please keep the Batman logo keep them coming 😊
I came across your repair feed by way of you past! Get your word out as it is top notch!
I have to admit I was a little disappointed when the end-song wasn't the hinted The Prodigy's Outer Space @9:32. Other than that, again, as always: great work. Really enjoyed the video. Stupid game indeed. I'll be waiting for any Prodigy song in your upcoming videos Steve!
Me too, i was waiting for it, maybe copyright issues? So fortunate to have seen them in 2017 with Keef, then saw them again in summer this year, atmosphere was incredible both times 😁🐜
@@charliehd6870 I was at the last European performance (2018-12-09), a few months before Keef... you know. It was A-MA-ZING.
You have developed a wonderful CAPACITY for fixing Stupid Games :) Excellent job mate... very nice
🤣 haha, thanks Ron! 👍
Ive been using warngins as part of my vocabulary at work now. Thanks for that.
i've got one of these, it plays mega drive, pc engine, snes and gba and other stuff really well
The reference schematic on the datasheet shows 1uF for the decoupling cap.
Surprised Stez missed the shorted cap when looking around the board. Even I saw it looked dodgy with the black spot on it. Also the resistor that tombstoned looked damaged, as the end contact was broken. That's why it tombstoned. Still if it works anyway......
You really need to get a nice set of tweezer soldering tips for your soldering station. I have a Metcal station and use a MX-PTZ tweezers and its amazing. You just grab the part like with a pair of tweezers and the part is removed or installed. Its much faster than hot air gun and less likely to damage parts around it.
Thanks Steve. Really made me chuckle.
Thanks for getting the funk out Steve (and the repair) 😄
Yay! New Steve Video 🙌🙌 Recently subbed and have binged all your videos 😁
I've just found your capacitor in my sock's drawer.
Don't suppose you've got any odd socks laying around?
Hi Stez, nice fix M8, how do you determine what voltage the capacitors should be?
Usually depends on the supply voltage. This game is running off of USB so unless there's any inverters involved, nothing should be more than 5 V DC.
Makes sense, thanks. 👍
I'd buy a Xmas album with you singing classic Xmas songs in your own inimitable style
What temperature is the hot air? Even at 450 the solder never melts this fast on any board with my hot air.
The ending song literally shine the Christmas season❤
I hoped that he was going to sing the whole song.
C'moooon, no one ever says "Nokia-off battery" and it's RIGHT THERE
Thank you for the great video and the Out of Space ear worm for the day. You did take my brain to another dimension.
I swear I love your videos man. Keep up the awesome work
5:40 When testing for shorts, what are you grounding to?
Have you tried using an air duster upside down to freeze the board before using the heat gun so the surrounding pieces don't de-solder?
That is the worst thing you could possibly do. You typically want to heat up the area all around the part you want to remove so that you don't heat shock the board.
Pity there are no boardviews for these types of boards. Nice win enjoyed it. thanks for sharing batman......👍
i wanted it to blow up - nice fix great video much fun
If you do google search images you get recomended diagrams its 1uF for input cap pin4 and gnd. For output its 10uF pin3 and gnd. Also pin3 and gnd is across battery
..."lets see if it explodes..." 😅 felt like you speaking out my thought
Really happy to see you've found success after the Yogscast
Amazing. You brought it back from the dead lol.
Thanks for a great video wish you, your family and friends a very happy Christmas. 🎅🤶🎄☃️🎁
Your music is awesome Steve will you have "The Best of StezStiz Fix Xmas list"?
You'll find that capacitor where missing tiny screws are .
You can also find the missing battery covers for gameboys and remotes there.
You mean on the floor, and eventually in the vacuum if you don't look for them?
You can actually use a 3.5mm to rca audio adapter as a video cable. I have a similar type game and that's what I use.
That's literally worth $7. Awesome fix though bro!
Great job! Another toy saved from the depths of shortage!!!
GOOGLE TRANSLATE CAN translate pdfs. I have used it for some datasheet myself
Thanks for putting the timecode for the end of that song :)
That was the best beat so far no fast forwarding this time
How do you know the value of a ceramic capacitor?
Some pleasingly-accurate flux application on this one
Quite surprised the battery was still good if the battery pin of the charge manager was shorted to ground for so long. It is astonishing how many issues are from caps shorting out like that.
This style of SMD capacitor is quite fragile to temperature swings and physical sress. They have a tendency to short out internally.
I'll never understand why there's a timestamp to skip the masterpieces that are the holy hand grenade patreon sub songs
you colud just leave without capacitor it would work just fine you can remove even few of them on the board and it will stil function
What is that microscope device you use?
Happy weekend Stez🔥
Well done on this one!
Another great video. Entertaining music as well
but will it charge?!! Love ya vids man!
FYI it was plugged in for charging when a surge came through and blew the capacitor which acted like a fuse
nicely done steve
Stezstix fix no.1 on TH-cam right now
Do you sell any WarnGins in your pub? They gotta be strong!😅
great fix steve 👍, i love your vids
Very Nice! 👍
Thanks Chris! 👍
Bravo 👏🏼. Great work
nice short fix.... i liked the patreon rap this time :)
Nice fix! Do you happen to know a good resource for hard to find data sheets for Chinese chips that don’t come up with a Google search? I have a digital microscope (KKMOON G1200) that has no backlight for the lcd. It had died while powering it from a USB battery bank, I found a SOT-23-5 chip that was getting hot and shorting to ground, could find nothing about it but traced it to the lcd and discovered it was likely a boost converter since the surrounding components matched the example circuit for a boost converter so replaced it with a same pinout different chip (TPS61040DBVR) and have a display now but no backlight, assuming the backlight circuit died when the boost ic shorted but can’t find a data sheet for a 6 pin chip labeled KDCAR that is likely a white led driver.
my money is on the broken capacitor you lose is hiding inside the solder that was on the tip of that soldering iron
anyway another amazing fix and minor spoiler its yet another case of... stop throwing away stuff that may just be a simple fix