Great fix Vince, I didn't know those tactile switches were such a common fault , so good fix and great comments. I learned something new that will be sure to help me in my Mr Fix It jobs. So a big thanks all!
Actualy if you unscrew the CD module you will be able to disassembly the whole unit pretty easy, sometimes there are screws under door. The LED is not dual color (it would had 3 leads), but it can be (unlikely) bi-colur (reverse polarity is used for other color). The construction is relatively good. The switch is momentary (the name is TACTILE Switch) it costs barely 5 cents. The repair went flawlessly. Perfect job Vince.
I know this is an 4 year old post but for info NOT all camera detect Infra Red. Mis’s digital cameras and some expensive phones have infra red filters ! So they don’t show. The cheap LCR component tester now has an infra detector. Lovely to see how you have evolved from 4 years ago to now.
Instead of going through all of this testing and digging through trying to get this device to work, I’m flying to China, and I’m going to find a bride that worked in the factory that made those things bring her back so she can fix mine ! Seriously though I quit painting my house today and I’m having a beer now. I’m really enjoying your video. I did pick up one that looks just like yours this morning, August 23 2023, at an estate sale for ten bucks American. Wish me luck!
If the remote had worked the whole thing could be switched on with that. By the way those little switches can be bought on ebay for next to nothing and are a common failure point.
Nice fix :) Had to look up what's PAT inspection, never heard of that before (I'm Finnish). Circuit board looks indeed older technology, lots of electrolytic capacitors, soldered ribbon cables, etc., looks pretty similar even to my 1980's Salora Manager (Vtech Laser 2001) home computer cicruit board. I should try to fix my 1992 Sharp portable CD-cassette radio player as the CD-player is skipping but apparently it needs some sort of special crosshead screwdriver, very long but also very thin one, to take it apart.
Have to give a lot of credit to Paul. His first diagnosis was "switch" and he suggested bridging it to test :-) By the way, Hitachi was in no way a "cheap" device. It may be of old school design now but Hitachi made very good and reliable devices back in the day (judging by date code on IC, this one was made circa 2003).
Still do in some areas. I have a Hitachi angle grinder I bought a couple of years back, superb quality. Most of the Hitachi electronics is rebadged cheap stuff now but back in the day as you say they were one of the better second-tier Japanese makes, and let's face it none of the old Japanese companies made junk, even Sanyo at the low end made robust, reliable stuff.
Hi vince. I love watching you. You mention about screws. Lefty loosey righty tighty. Your wrong I’m afraid. It’s the other way round. It’s left to tighten and right to loosen. Still. Keep up the good videos. You the man.
Sometimes that yellow haze on top of solder points or joints are a conformal coating used to protect those points from an accidental bridge such as water. Think of it as a very thin layer of protective glue.
Panasonic boombox from the 90s palgged with switch issues. The only way test to check the control board is ok, is using the remote control. Panasonic systems used just a resistor array and a three wire reading for the whole front panel. Instead of reading ON / OFF it detected different small changes in the voltage line as different buttons have a different associated resistor (different value). Guess what ???? as soon as the switches started to wear a bit an develop some ohms, system went crazy, as the voltage generated by one buttont shifted into other button value. Giving Play, turned radio. Pressing stop would rewind and so on. Pretty common failure mode. You need to replace all switches or at least the most used ones. As per the transforme output, dont worry. It could be two thing. The voltage goes down while loaded (boobmx on) or, boombx accepts more voltage than the one provided by batteries to put more ouput power on AC. This sounds rare, but many 80s boomboxes did it that way. They have TWO ouput power figures. Running on batteries was the lower one and running on AC the bigger one. but you need to regulate certain parts like the logic control and motor. The amplifier part does not need regulation.
The button is a normal momentary pushbutton (yes that is what they are called, so you were correct Vince), there is circuitry somewhere else that does the toggling on/off when the button is pressed. I know that because when you bridged the pads (so the button was not involved), it still acted like a toggle. Also, every toggle pushbutton I've seen has visibly pressed and depressed when toggled, it seems to be the physical position of the button that decides whether to make the connection or not. These buttons are very common and are cheaply available online. You see them used a lot in hobby Arduino projects, breadboard projects, etc.
I just realized that I've never heard you laugh before, since you're always by yourself! This was an awesome video Vince, good find with the power button.
The board looks an ideal candidate for beginners due to the lack of SMDs and through-hole-all-the-things. Not to mention 1/3 of the components are capacitors! :D
Have you still got that megaphone you fixed last year? To this day one of the best trying to fix videos you've done I remember you having a lot of fun with that one.
Nice little fix this one! I strongly suggest investing in one of iFixit's kits for future projects. I have their Mako kit that has 64 bits, all the ones you could ever need including all security bits for games consoles and mobile phones like Nintendo/Xbox/Apple etc and I have never needed another screwdriver since. You also get a flexible extension bit included like you had at the end of the video for getting into tight spots. If you're feeling a little more fancy then go for their Pro Tech kit that also has every kind of tool you need to open up gadgets like spudgers, tweezers and suction cups. The case they come in also doubles as a parts tray. The kits are a little pricey but they are the best in the business and they back the entire kit with a lifetime warranty so if you manage to brake a bit or a spudger they will send you another one. Also, please make a tape and a CD of songs from the TH-cam audio library for testing, as much as we all love Jimmy Nail, Christmas songs and that episode of The Archers you need to save yourself from a copyright strike! www.amazon.co.uk/iFixit-including-smartphone-laptops-disassembly/dp/B01GF0KV6G/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=ifixit&qid=1555512280&s=gateway&sr=8-1
On a portable CD player first try changing out the batteries to fresh new batteries. I had a CD player/radio, the radio worked but the CD player did not recognize a CD in it. I thought it was busted until I found the electric cord and plugged it in, then the CD player worked. So I put in new batteries and the CD player worked. The old batteries must have had enough juice for the radio but not enough power left to play CDs. Simple fix to try.
hay vince. you can fix those micro switches easy. if you take the metal off that surrounds the button . you can take the button out underneath is a little metal disc shaped like a metal bowl. use some emery cloth on the concave part of the metal disc then reassemble it should work then. this also works on gba sp shoulder buttons.
nice, what age was this stereo? the board looked quite old skool with lots of through hole components but it looked like the sort of thing you can still buy today.
Hi vince, Just something you may be interested in I’m an eBay reseller and I’ve just got a load of electronics in and I have plenty of faulty stuff as well. I’ll probably end up listing as parts. I do have some working stuff as well but with random faults such as only works on batteries and not mains or the displays not working which sounds right up your street and at least you know it won’t of been dropped in a bath!
My Mate VINCE Hi, My eBay is just AshleysUK, I will start listing the faulty items this week but if you check it out now you’ll have a rough idea of the stuff it’s going to be and I’ll pop back in the comments if I think something would be an interesting fix👍🏻 i do have one radio on there at the moment it’s the bush sage green radio that only works on batteries
You can check most leds with your diode test setting on your multimeter. Swap the continuety of the leads to test if its a colour change as that is how a teo colour led often works if it is a two lead colour change led.
Hey Vince would like your help on my Atari 2600, been looking for contact info. I have been watching your channel for a while and you are the one who enspired me to do repaires on consoles as well. I’m in the uk
@@ShockingPikachu I think he might have an issue with the lenght of the tripode. Tall tripodes are usually bulky. I had the same issue and now im using a microphone stand with a camera mount
The LED will have 3 legs if its a 2 colour LED! Great job =D Nice idea swapping the tactile switch there from a spot that is infrequently used! That type of switch is super common in lots of electronic products - eg. XBOX One shoulder buttons. It's a 6mm x 6mm tactile switch. They sell them with different height buttons - take a look on eBay!
Thanks Chris, I will look out for the 3 leg LEDs in future. I didn't know the tactile switches were common so I may buy a selection box as a lot of comments have mentioned that they are a common failure point. Cheers mate :-)
Hello Vince! I have a faulty ps vita, it was dropped in water and stopped working, and when charged it showed the light for power yet no display. I was wondering if you would be able to fix it?
Never charge a device that has water in it. And forget about the rice method. Clean the board with IPA and start from there. But do not charge if it has water
Okurka that is not the only way I dried it. I opened up the entire board and made sure there wasn’t a drip, and put it back EXACTLY as it was before (I took many photos). Here is what I did: 1: opened up the board and let it air dry ( I live in Fresno and it was 105 degrees ferianhite) for an hour-3 2: put it in a bag of rice for 4 days 3. Made sure there were no parts that had water in them and no rice. The device was not heat damaged, it was under a shader and when I touched it after drying it felt slightly warm.
Vince, I saw a vid the other day and wondered if you should try one, it will test your acquired skills and be a fun project right down your alley, get a Wiivision kit, the portable Wii's with gamecube controls built in, all you need I think is a Wii, a GC controller and some circuit boards and accompanying furniture and a suitable screen.
Great repair Vince, May i suggest you perhaps you record a copyright free song / songs on to a cassette for future content. Would be ideal especially with the Walkman series you are doing. :-)
you can see the beam of the remote ir diode with a cheap camera that doesn't have an ir filter. so it might not work with your nice camera but usually with cameras of e.g. smartphones. that's how i always check on my remotes if the batteries are flat. with new batteries the beam is a lot stronger.
Common failure for these vince ..They are called 'tactile buttons/switches' and very cheap to buy in lots of 10 50 or 100 etc from China ...critical measurements when ordering are... shape... square or rectangular ..the dimensions of the button base and the height of the button above the switch base..they come in many types...rgds Evan..there are even micro sized versions for car key fobs The latching effect is usually controlled by the micro ...simply by toggling a voltage via the button on a dedicated I/O pin on the micro device.
I've not been into electrical engineering for too long though my initial feeling is that 5mm tactile switches seems to be pretty common. So I've already got 100 on order on the slow boat from China.
great idea buddy ..I have been repairing electronics since I was 12 years old ...now in my 60s ...and learned a long time ago .Whatever part you intend ordering always at least duplicate the order and if cheap enough ..multibuy. 8-)
I have one and radio only works, when i put the switch to cd nothing happens no light no laser movement i reckon its a faulty switch what do u think vince ?
When you opened the radio, i saw all that capacitors in the mother board and thinked: Hopefully there is not a problem with the capacitors. Maybe you will take a few time testing each capacitors one by one.
To: MyMateVince: I just saw on Facebook that someone is selling a Faulty Wii U in Manila for P1,000+ (Pesos) that the system works fine and everything except it doesn’t wanna show up the video on the TV.
I was also thinking the same, i have worked on several japanese stereo items andnthey have all used JIS, i have imported via amazon a awesome little JIS set of screwdrivers cost £10 delivered. Came with a coupke more useful screwdrivers as well.
Supposedly JIS screws can actually be damaged by a Philips screwdriver, because the Philips screwdriver has a rounded bit in the middle. The other way around should be safe.
Those units use a double insulated transformer that has a tiny fuse inside so maybe a new transformer of the same type should solve the problem,That large 100 leg flat-pack chip is most likely a Toshiba version of the Texas Instruments Blackfin DSP chip, What about using EVOSTICK to close up the crack, then let it dry then roughen it up with sand paper and see if that solves the problem.
i had try today trying fix my Wireless P2Mouse(Pc mouse) he wont just not turn on thanks to your videos i find out i need only clean the battery terminals(Akaline Battery(Varti) does leak when they are Empty) but my mouse have an another fault the right click button does seems be not work property.
Boomboxes are low voltage. high voltage is reduce in the transformer. Board is disconnected anyways. You need to know in advance what you are doing. Handling a CRT TV board or an ATX PSU board even with a power cut ... completely different story, you can get the shock of your life.
@@38911bytefree aha that's why thank you so much for the information 🙏, could you please explain to me how to drain the power in a PSU board so you can work on it safely thank you blessings
Just in case you are not aware most Japanese products will use Japnese Industrial Standard (JIS) screws, not Philips.(They look very similar.) The main difference is the depth of the cavity in the head, JIS is quite shallow compared to Philips hence using a Philips driver in a JIS head results in 'camming out'. A JIS driver should be OK-ish in a Philips head at a push. Something to look out for is a single small indentation, (a dot), on the screw head. This will indicate it is a JIS head but not all screw manufactureres use it so a screw without one may still be JIS. Unfortunately the video is out of focus at the point where you show us the screw head so I couldn't tell if this is the case here. JIS screwdrivers can be found on your favourite auction website although do tend to be slightly more expensive than your average 'Philips' or 'Pozzy'. You can also get JIS 'bits' and 'precision' driver sets too...whatever a 'precision' driver is...LOL. As most of your repairs seem to be Japanese products it may be worthwhile investing in one or two....as you know, the right tool for the job can save hours of frustration. Good luck, and thanks for the videos. Just noticed this has already been mentioned...sorry.
Good repair Vince, but why were you doing this one on the floor? Often it's just a simple thing like that switch which stops something working. If you had tried the remote first it would have worked straight away! I've got a Sony M35 Minidisc CD Boombox system that has recently gone faulty, but it just says 'error' on the display & won't turn on or anything, so I think it may be a more complex software fault.
Hi Vince, nice fix, why don't you spend an hour taking bits off boards you've been unable to mend and keep a compartment box with spares in, I found a sky+HD box in our back street at weekend, no use really without a subscription but it has a 500gb seagate hard drive, a 60mm fan and an abundance of micro switches all for free
Hi Vince, are you Gona get the Nintendo labo vr, got one myself and I must say it really good, I think u would really enjoy it and it would make a great video 😉
Vince, i know this is a minor thing but it's the only thing that stops me really enjoying your otherwise great vids. Please, please can you turn down the audio when you're testing continuity, you have possibly the loudest and highest pitched multimeter i've ever heard and considering your method of testing continuity isn't just "put the probes on, it beeps, it works" it's "put probes on, it beeps, take probes off and put back on, it beeps, repeat x 10" it honestly get's sort of painful having such a high pitched loud noise going off for so long. As i mentioned i know it's a really minor thing and i do really like your vids otherwise, maybe my hearing is more sensitive than others but it really does bug me.
Hi, I don't have an option to turn it down on the multi meter and it would take a lot of editing on these long videos. I will see if the multimeter has holes to let the sound out as I may be able to tape over them to reduce it a bit :-)
Hey Vince, I've got a Windows Phone that I tried to repair, but was unsuccessful, so instead of putting it in the trash, I thought maybe you could fix it. I've put up a listing on eBay for £10 for it + £3.48 postage.
Didn't think to change over the other one, we should have done that as it may fail as it is the same age!!! No he was only joking about the batteries because of the price of them. He would never really do that :-)
Like others have said, if you had pressed the power button on the remote before you started you would have known the fault right away 'cause it would have come on.
Great fix Vince, I didn't know those tactile switches were such a common fault , so good fix and great comments. I learned something new that will be sure to help me in my Mr Fix It jobs. So a big thanks all!
Well done lads! Enjoyed watching you both figuring out the faults and getting it going.
Actualy if you unscrew the CD module you will be able to disassembly the whole unit pretty easy, sometimes there are screws under door. The LED is not dual color (it would had 3 leads), but it can be (unlikely) bi-colur (reverse polarity is used for other color). The construction is relatively good. The switch is momentary (the name is TACTILE Switch) it costs barely 5 cents. The repair went flawlessly. Perfect job Vince.
Brilliant advice, tips and info. Thanks again :-)
I absolutely love when you do these fixes it gives electronics a second lease on life I do the same thing keep up the good work
Would love to see that lady seeing the fine job you did on her radio. Must be great having something she's used to back working like new!
Such a small fault leads to such a big problem. Great to see this video!
Looks like Vince finally fixed a faulty switch!
;)
Haha :-)
I know this is an 4 year old post but for info NOT all camera detect Infra Red. Mis’s digital cameras and some expensive phones have infra red filters ! So they don’t show. The cheap LCR component tester now has an infra detector. Lovely to see how you have evolved from 4 years ago to now.
Those kind of buttons dont usually wear off easily but this is a really lucky case ..great job!!!
Well done Vince and Paul. Very educational and satisfying to watch. Kind regards from Paul at Tascam 488mk1.
Instead of going through all of this testing and digging through trying to get this device to work, I’m flying to China, and I’m going to find a bride that worked in the factory that made those things bring her back so she can fix mine ! Seriously though I quit painting my house today and I’m having a beer now. I’m really enjoying your video. I did pick up one that looks just like yours this morning, August 23 2023, at an estate sale for ten bucks American. Wish me luck!
If the remote had worked the whole thing could be switched on with that.
By the way those little switches can be bought on ebay for next to nothing and are a common failure point.
I was going to say tactile buttons are super cheap bags in the 1000's for next to nothing. Would be well worth getting them.
My mate Vince? More like my SOULmate Vince!
Vince: Do you know any AM channels?
Paul: Capital Gold?
...pause...
Paul: 1548!
LOVE IT! 😃
Enjoyed watching lads. Cheers
I like the fact that they were able to fix it since by doing this they reduce the amount of electronic waste in the world.
Nice fix :) Had to look up what's PAT inspection, never heard of that before (I'm Finnish). Circuit board looks indeed older technology, lots of electrolytic capacitors, soldered ribbon cables, etc., looks pretty similar even to my 1980's Salora Manager (Vtech Laser 2001) home computer cicruit board.
I should try to fix my 1992 Sharp portable CD-cassette radio player as the CD-player is skipping but apparently it needs some sort of special crosshead screwdriver, very long but also very thin one, to take it apart.
Have to give a lot of credit to Paul. His first diagnosis was "switch" and he suggested bridging it to test :-) By the way, Hitachi was in no way a "cheap" device. It may be of old school design now but Hitachi made very good and reliable devices back in the day (judging by date code on IC, this one was made circa 2003).
Still do in some areas. I have a Hitachi angle grinder I bought a couple of years back, superb quality. Most of the Hitachi electronics is rebadged cheap stuff now but back in the day as you say they were one of the better second-tier Japanese makes, and let's face it none of the old Japanese companies made junk, even Sanyo at the low end made robust, reliable stuff.
2003, thanks for the info. Yes he did well to suggest the fault pretty much at the beginning of the vid:-)
I feel like Paul has no idea what Vince is on about and he agrees with everything 😂😂
Don't well all do that?
I feel like Vince has no idea what Vince is on about.
Hi vince. I love watching you. You mention about screws. Lefty loosey righty tighty. Your wrong I’m afraid. It’s the other way round. It’s left to tighten and right to loosen. Still. Keep up the good videos. You the man.
You should go round bootfairs and film it grabbing bargains and faulty items.
Sometimes that yellow haze on top of solder points or joints are a conformal coating used to protect those points from an accidental bridge such as water. Think of it as a very thin layer of protective glue.
Panasonic boombox from the 90s palgged with switch issues. The only way test to check the control board is ok, is using the remote control. Panasonic systems used just a resistor array and a three wire reading for the whole front panel. Instead of reading ON / OFF it detected different small changes in the voltage line as different buttons have a different associated resistor (different value). Guess what ???? as soon as the switches started to wear a bit an develop some ohms, system went crazy, as the voltage generated by one buttont shifted into other button value. Giving Play, turned radio. Pressing stop would rewind and so on. Pretty common failure mode. You need to replace all switches or at least the most used ones. As per the transforme output, dont worry. It could be two thing. The voltage goes down while loaded (boobmx on) or, boombx accepts more voltage than the one provided by batteries to put more ouput power on AC. This sounds rare, but many 80s boomboxes did it that way. They have TWO ouput power figures. Running on batteries was the lower one and running on AC the bigger one. but you need to regulate certain parts like the logic control and motor. The amplifier part does not need regulation.
Use a small muffin pan for your screws. They have them for mini muffins that work perfect.
The button is a normal momentary pushbutton (yes that is what they are called, so you were correct Vince), there is circuitry somewhere else that does the toggling on/off when the button is pressed. I know that because when you bridged the pads (so the button was not involved), it still acted like a toggle. Also, every toggle pushbutton I've seen has visibly pressed and depressed when toggled, it seems to be the physical position of the button that decides whether to make the connection or not. These buttons are very common and are cheaply available online. You see them used a lot in hobby Arduino projects, breadboard projects, etc.
Thanks for the advice :-)
Its funny how he is always sitting on the floor. Keep up the good vids.
I just realized that I've never heard you laugh before, since you're always by yourself! This was an awesome video Vince, good find with the power button.
Thanks :-)
The board looks an ideal candidate for beginners due to the lack of SMDs and through-hole-all-the-things. Not to mention 1/3 of the components are capacitors! :D
Have you still got that megaphone you fixed last year? To this day one of the best trying to fix videos you've done I remember you having a lot of fun with that one.
Hi vince. I have the exact model stereo. And the led on lights up when the unit is in operation. If its in standby it doesn't light up
Nice little fix this one! I strongly suggest investing in one of iFixit's kits for future projects. I have their Mako kit that has 64 bits, all the ones you could ever need including all security bits for games consoles and mobile phones like Nintendo/Xbox/Apple etc and I have never needed another screwdriver since. You also get a flexible extension bit included like you had at the end of the video for getting into tight spots. If you're feeling a little more fancy then go for their Pro Tech kit that also has every kind of tool you need to open up gadgets like spudgers, tweezers and suction cups. The case they come in also doubles as a parts tray. The kits are a little pricey but they are the best in the business and they back the entire kit with a lifetime warranty so if you manage to brake a bit or a spudger they will send you another one.
Also, please make a tape and a CD of songs from the TH-cam audio library for testing, as much as we all love Jimmy Nail, Christmas songs and that episode of The Archers you need to save yourself from a copyright strike!
www.amazon.co.uk/iFixit-including-smartphone-laptops-disassembly/dp/B01GF0KV6G/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=ifixit&qid=1555512280&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Thanks Adam :-)
On a portable CD player first try changing out the batteries to fresh new batteries. I had a CD player/radio, the radio worked but the CD player did not recognize a CD in it. I thought it was busted until I found the electric cord and plugged it in, then the CD player worked. So I put in new batteries and the CD player worked. The old batteries must have had enough juice for the radio but not enough power left to play CDs. Simple fix to try.
I seriously think Vince should be prime minister
Hazi agreed
Hazi
He will sure fix Britain
Trying to fix Brexit?
Nice fix I love your videos your getting pretty good 👌
I think Vince must have more than 24 hours in one day as I still haven't had time to finish watching the last three videos!
Thanks for the videos, Vince!
Nice job 👍🏻
You and your brother make a good team 🙂
Does your brother work as an electrician?
hay vince. you can fix those micro switches easy. if you take the metal off that surrounds the button . you can take the button out underneath is a little metal disc shaped like a metal bowl. use some emery cloth on the concave part of the metal disc then reassemble it should work then. this also works on gba sp shoulder buttons.
Thanks for the info :-)
THE ENGLISH TEACHER'S CD PLAYER! At least in my country every english teacher had one like this
My name is Paul too👍
nice, what age was this stereo? the board looked quite old skool with lots of through hole components but it looked like the sort of thing you can still buy today.
Hi vince, Just something you may be interested in I’m an eBay reseller and I’ve just got a load of electronics in and I have plenty of faulty stuff as well. I’ll probably end up listing as parts. I do have some working stuff as well but with random faults such as only works on batteries and not mains or the displays not working which sounds right up your street and at least you know it won’t of been dropped in a bath!
Hi, reply back with your eBay username and I will look you up or you can email it over to me if you want a bit of privacy :-)
My Mate VINCE Hi, My eBay is just AshleysUK, I will start listing the faulty items this week but if you check it out now you’ll have a rough idea of the stuff it’s going to be and I’ll pop back in the comments if I think something would be an interesting fix👍🏻 i do have one radio on there at the moment it’s the bush sage green radio that only works on batteries
@@AshleySmith-su5mv Thanks, I will check it out :-)
You can check most leds with your diode test setting on your multimeter. Swap the continuety of the leads to test if its a colour change as that is how a teo colour led often works if it is a two lead colour change led.
Thanks for the tip :-)
Hey Vince would like your help on my Atari 2600, been looking for contact info. I have been watching your channel for a while and you are the one who enspired me to do repaires on consoles as well. I’m in the uk
What is that thing you use to remove solder and no not the soldering iron the suction thing that sucks it up?
Hi, if you Google 'solder sucker' you will find them :-)
Cool, thanks;)
Vince! Why do you work on the floor? My back hurts just to imagine the pose for that long! :) great vid as always!
Because reasons and yes.
@@ShockingPikachu I think he might have an issue with the lenght of the tripode. Tall tripodes are usually bulky. I had the same issue and now im using a microphone stand with a camera mount
@@ArreglandoCosas or just no room at his brother's house on his table or same for his place too
The LED will have 3 legs if its a 2 colour LED! Great job =D Nice idea swapping the tactile switch there from a spot that is infrequently used! That type of switch is super common in lots of electronic products - eg. XBOX One shoulder buttons. It's a 6mm x 6mm tactile switch. They sell them with different height buttons - take a look on eBay!
GadgetUK164 - Retro Gaming Repairs & Mods I like to rescue the tactile buttons from old equipment as they always come in handy!
There are 2-color LEDs with 2 legs...
www.instructables.com/id/The-RedGreen-LED-Guide/
Thanks Chris, I will look out for the 3 leg LEDs in future. I didn't know the tactile switches were common so I may buy a selection box as a lot of comments have mentioned that they are a common failure point. Cheers mate :-)
Hello Vince! I have a faulty ps vita, it was dropped in water and stopped working, and when charged it showed the light for power yet no display. I was wondering if you would be able to fix it?
Never charge a device that has water in it. And forget about the rice method. Clean the board with IPA and start from there. But do not charge if it has water
MirceaD28 it had no water in it when charging. I open up the device and let it air dry for an hour.
An hour? LOL, it wasn't dry at all.
Okurka that is not the only way I dried it. I opened up the entire board and made sure there wasn’t a drip, and put it back EXACTLY as it was before (I took many photos). Here is what I did:
1: opened up the board and let it air dry ( I live in Fresno and it was 105 degrees ferianhite) for an hour-3
2: put it in a bag of rice for 4 days
3. Made sure there were no parts that had water in them and no rice.
The device was not heat damaged, it was under a shader and when I touched it after drying it felt slightly warm.
Rice? Why didn't you put it in the microwave for 5 minutes?
How do you remove the radio transmitter/transciever and or reciever
Vince your my favorite youtuber
Great job, both of you.
Thanks :-)
Amazing technology fixing video
Vince, I saw a vid the other day and wondered if you should try one, it will test your acquired skills and be a fun project right down your alley, get a Wiivision kit, the portable Wii's with gamecube controls built in, all you need I think is a Wii, a GC controller and some circuit boards and accompanying furniture and a suitable screen.
Great video as always
Thanks mate :-)
Great repair Vince, May i suggest you perhaps you record a copyright free song / songs on to a cassette for future content. Would be ideal especially with the Walkman series you are doing. :-)
you can see the beam of the remote ir diode with a cheap camera that doesn't have an ir filter. so it might not work with your nice camera but usually with cameras of e.g. smartphones. that's how i always check on my remotes if the batteries are flat. with new batteries the beam is a lot stronger.
Nice fix video Vince.
Thank you :-)
@@Mymatevince You're welcome.
Common failure for these vince ..They are called 'tactile buttons/switches' and very cheap to buy in lots of 10 50 or 100 etc from China ...critical measurements when ordering are... shape... square or rectangular ..the dimensions of the button base and the height of the button above the switch base..they come in many types...rgds
Evan..there are even micro sized versions for car key fobs
The latching effect is usually controlled by the micro ...simply by toggling a voltage via the button on a dedicated I/O pin on the micro device.
I've not been into electrical engineering for too long though my initial feeling is that 5mm tactile switches seems to be pretty common. So I've already got 100 on order on the slow boat from China.
great idea buddy ..I have been repairing electronics since I was 12 years old ...now in my 60s ...and learned a long time ago .Whatever part you intend ordering always at least duplicate the order and if cheap enough ..multibuy. 8-)
Thanks for the advice Evan :-)
I have one and radio only works, when i put the switch to cd nothing happens no light no laser movement i reckon its a faulty switch what do u think vince ?
When you opened the radio, i saw all that capacitors in the mother board and thinked: Hopefully there is not a problem with the capacitors. Maybe you will take a few time testing each capacitors one by one.
hi, please can i know that it is the part number of the sound integrated circuit of the panasonic model rx - 5110 and thanks in advance.
Oh boy, what's with you and the Switches Vince?
Hahahhahahha omg at 30:53 Paul was like can we work on the floor hahahahahahahaha
To: MyMateVince: I just saw on Facebook that someone is selling a Faulty Wii U in Manila for P1,000+ (Pesos) that the system works fine and everything except it doesn’t wanna show up the video on the TV.
what about JIS, Japanese Industrial Standard. Looks very similar to Phillips
I was also thinking the same, i have worked on several japanese stereo items andnthey have all used JIS, i have imported via amazon a awesome little JIS set of screwdrivers cost £10 delivered. Came with a coupke more useful screwdrivers as well.
Supposedly JIS screws can actually be damaged by a Philips screwdriver, because the Philips screwdriver has a rounded bit in the middle. The other way around should be safe.
Those units use a double insulated transformer that has a tiny fuse inside so maybe a new transformer of the same type should solve the problem,That large 100 leg flat-pack chip is most likely a Toshiba version of the Texas Instruments Blackfin DSP chip, What about using EVOSTICK to close up the crack, then let it dry then roughen it up with sand paper and see if that solves the problem.
I have Sony portable CD and cassette player and CD bit is dead what should I do?
3d sound wasn't working even after the fix. Once pressed the light should stay on and it didn't. Just letting you know Vince. Good video. 👍🏻
i had try today trying fix my Wireless P2Mouse(Pc mouse) he wont just not turn on thanks to your videos i find out i need only clean the battery terminals(Akaline Battery(Varti) does leak when they are Empty) but my mouse have an another fault the right click button does seems be not work property.
Q. Do the CD's spin in the opposite direction compared to the states? Asking for a friend. Cheers from So.Ca.USA 3rd house on the left.
15:50 isn't holding the bord with your bear hands like that is dangerous, be safe vince nice vid
Boomboxes are low voltage. high voltage is reduce in the transformer. Board is disconnected anyways. You need to know in advance what you are doing. Handling a CRT TV board or an ATX PSU board even with a power cut ... completely different story, you can get the shock of your life.
@@38911bytefree aha that's why thank you so much for the information 🙏, could you please explain to me how to drain the power in a PSU board so you can work on it safely thank you blessings
i have a suggestion. Can you try to fix a braille display. The cheapest one is about £114 pound and 22 pents
Just in case you are not aware most Japanese products will use Japnese Industrial Standard (JIS) screws, not Philips.(They look very similar.)
The main difference is the depth of the cavity in the head, JIS is quite shallow compared to Philips hence using a Philips driver in a JIS head results in 'camming out'. A JIS driver should be OK-ish in a Philips head at a push.
Something to look out for is a single small indentation, (a dot), on the screw head. This will indicate it is a JIS head but not all screw manufactureres use it so a screw without one may still be JIS. Unfortunately the video is out of focus at the point where you show us the screw head so I couldn't tell if this is the case here.
JIS screwdrivers can be found on your favourite auction website although do tend to be slightly more expensive than your average 'Philips' or 'Pozzy'. You can also get JIS 'bits' and 'precision' driver sets too...whatever a 'precision' driver is...LOL.
As most of your repairs seem to be Japanese products it may be worthwhile investing in one or two....as you know, the right tool for the job can save hours of frustration.
Good luck, and thanks for the videos.
Just noticed this has already been mentioned...sorry.
Thanks for the detailed info :-)
Good repair Vince, but why were you doing this one on the floor? Often it's just a simple thing like that switch which stops something working. If you had tried the remote first it would have worked straight away!
I've got a Sony M35 Minidisc CD Boombox system that has recently gone faulty, but it just says 'error' on the display & won't turn on or anything, so I think it may be a more complex software fault.
Hey Vince can you make a video of how to fix a tv with the hdmi pushed into the tv
what are the chances of that ! .. I just got the same hitachi with the power not working ! .. I know where to look 1st now !
Vince do you still do phone cables mate???? need an rj11 to rj45 cable cat 5,6,or7 lol
Hey Vince I connected my ps4 controller to the xbox one but when I plugged my headset to the controller it did not work
Hi Vince, nice fix, why don't you spend an hour taking bits off boards you've been unable to mend and keep a compartment box with spares in, I found a sky+HD box in our back street at weekend, no use really without a subscription but it has a 500gb seagate hard drive, a 60mm fan and an abundance of micro switches all for free
Good advice, thanks :-)
The 17 volt from the AC is unregulated, when you load it with the rest of the ciruit it is probably around the 12 volts
Thanks for the info :-)
color changing leds usually have more than 2 leads..
Btw Vince you can buy a selection of those switches and all other kinds on Amazon
will you get a sony cfd-70 on ebay and fix the CD? I'd swear every single one ever made has a NoCD error!
Japanese/Chinese tech is so damn good. I recently got a Chinese mobile phone it's so damn good for the price.
Hi Vince, are you Gona get the Nintendo labo vr, got one myself and I must say it really good, I think u would really enjoy it and it would make a great video 😉
Yeah, I will definitely get it. Embarrassingly I got the first 2 labo kits shortly after they launched and I still haven't messed around with them!!!!
A smartphone cammera can see infrared light from those remotes
The impulse switch your talking about is actually a thyristor latch circuit
Ever thought of building a table then working on that? got to be uncomfortable doing everything on the floor
Vince, i know this is a minor thing but it's the only thing that stops me really enjoying your otherwise great vids. Please, please can you turn down the audio when you're testing continuity, you have possibly the loudest and highest pitched multimeter i've ever heard and considering your method of testing continuity isn't just "put the probes on, it beeps, it works" it's "put probes on, it beeps, take probes off and put back on, it beeps, repeat x 10" it honestly get's sort of painful having such a high pitched loud noise going off for so long. As i mentioned i know it's a really minor thing and i do really like your vids otherwise, maybe my hearing is more sensitive than others but it really does bug me.
Hi, I don't have an option to turn it down on the multi meter and it would take a lot of editing on these long videos. I will see if the multimeter has holes to let the sound out as I may be able to tape over them to reduce it a bit :-)
Modern cameras (/lenses) got UV filters built in, so you won't be able to see the signal of the remote in the footage ;)
Hey Vince, I've got a Windows Phone that I tried to repair, but was unsuccessful, so instead of putting it in the trash, I thought maybe you could fix it. I've put up a listing on eBay for £10 for it + £3.48 postage.
That was a great luck to figure it out instantly
Cool video
Thank you :-)
great fix !!
I love in the USA our voltage can run up to 480 volts.
Why not replace both belts?
Did Paul return those batteries to Amazon to get his money back?
Didn't think to change over the other one, we should have done that as it may fail as it is the same age!!! No he was only joking about the batteries because of the price of them. He would never really do that :-)
Like others have said, if you had pressed the power button on the remote before you started you would have known the fault right away 'cause it would have come on.
My Mate Paul.
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RealTheDogIsBack17, do you have discord then?
Those switches are constantly dying on me, various devices...to the point that I just ordered a lot of 50 from China for replacements.
just pray you dont get a Panasonic 90s system !!!. They went crazy on bad switches (look my coment somewhere here LOL)