Remote Radio Unit Teardown - Gold Recovery Boards
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 มี.ค. 2018
- Remote Radio Unit (RRU) Wireless Base Station.
Awesome teardown for gold recovery and a heap of Aluminium.
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Thanks to Mark Thomas, a scrapper here in Melbourne who found this item and letting me tear it down.
Thumbs up if you think Mark should start up his own scrapping channel, he gets amazing stuff on a daily basis and would blow our minds if he showed us on video
Ask him to allow you to do a vid for us. Love to see all that unusual technology.
Soo prety boards, not much gold there, bt just look amaizing with that gold layer. Super video Ben :)
Hi Mr. Ben, thank you about this video that I remember my self when I dismantling first RRU before four years ago and I shocked like you now and I take 3 days to understand this technology of mobile !!
Also some RRU come with silver coated sometimes copper coated Aluminum, and this ERICSSON brand but try to find ALCATEL Modules for me is the perfect !!
strong Video...
eWaste Ben yes Mark please do begin a channel
Hiiii jee
Those *white power transistors sell for 25-30Euro used* any time!
That module at 18:57 with two pins you are referring to is an input filter cavity resonator.
That "chip" at 19:22 is in fact just a so called flat PCB inductor with a ferrite core. It is practically worthless. The almost empty aluminum is for power output filtering/wave guide. The screws are there to tune the size of the cavity in the aluminum, with which they can tune the resonant frequency for the microwave radio signal.
which ones? at what time in video?
Woohoo! Yet again a real pleasure to watch. Thx for showing, Ben.
Was agog with excitement. Such quality of material and workmanship! Technology and art combine to produce WOW!
Feelin like a 10 year old at Christmas waiting on the complete tear down. WOW! Great score!
I’ve had so much of these over the years dying to watch you do a tear down!
Another very cool scrap. I love finding the odd stuff.
Good one Ben, you had me hanging unto the edge of my seat with that one. I counted up to 200 torque screws,that was not counting the screws around the border.
Been fun to watch and very very interesting video. thanks Ben..
nice score and thanks for you for putting my attention for youtube again
Ben I have installed like this RRU this is basically connect your mobile to this base station, and from this unit it converted to fibre Optical cable. the yellow small cable is optical trans-reciever n you can pull it out by small lever down n pull it gently towards u thats called SFP module and you could sell it for good price if its not damage.
An interesting item to scrap!
Ben! You tease us with both boards by hiding the board while we look at the pretty cool heat sinks. EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS SCRAP WAS, AWESOME!!!
I love to get satellite dish receivers, the ones attached to the roof. (I don't know if you have those down under) They have a lot of tork screws too and have not as good but similar plating. I'm partial to them because it was the very 1st thing I ever scrapped!!!
Thanks for sharing Bem
Great things for great men
this is the new greatest show I appreciate
Thanks
I’m in RF connectivity industry, but I’ve never seen the whole RRU before. Especially inside of it. Thanks for sharing this video.
Anyway, the small connector you grab could cost 10 bucks.
Good find Ben, this borders on military grade, big rf tuned cavity, usually all the aluminum rf components will be silver plated, "scrap on"
..... NICE VIDEO ... ! KEEP GOING ....!
The white ceramic RF transistors, even used are probably your best prize.
Nice bro.
Very cool , had this computer geek paying attention.
Uuu nice unit! It would be interesting and nice to see once your collection!! Other subscribers may agree with me :)
First time seeing that but I have read about them on GRF. That section with the hollows is silver plated aluminum. Really awesome find by your buddy.
What is GRF? Is that a website I can go and look at?
gold refining forum
eWaste Ben Yes sir, not sure if they called them that or something similar
The chunky white component is a microwave diplexer, which consists of cylindrical rods with caps that function as coupled resonators.
yep great stuff got some of thst
I need to bring a precision here: the two big plugs are not fiber optics, they are high frequency coxials, more or less like your TV antenna plug. The thin yellow wires on the side are the fiber optics. The other plug must be power supply. I would love to take apart such stuff, but they are unombtainium so far in flea markets, and also rare on tbey, in particular at very low prices.
On which flea market can you find old electronics for teardowns?
Flea markets here are very random in content, you never know what you will find.
test for magnesium by placing a drop of white vinegar and looking for bubbles/fizzing . especially if the metal feels lighter than expected
that part that has all the screws that's radio wave guide. and the part you keep saying is the fiber part is for cables that go to either a dish or antenna and those bolts are for tuning the radio waves.
How do you remove silver plating from aluminium?
I tried electrolysis but it didn't work
where did you get that bit box with all of those bits? that thing is amazing and i want one!
It’s so pretty
If the RF transistors (with the white ceramic caps) is from Infineon (with an “i” on the cap) then there is a high chance that there is some gold wires in them.
The large chunk of aluminum is a frequency filter or diplexer. They have very large filters for lower frequencies.
Some Screws for tuning other for holding it together
Ben , haven't read through all the other posts , but the cast alum. with what you were thinking may be silver , is a type of filter , cavity filter , as many points RF [ not optical ] is manipulated by dimensions , like coax - coax has specific impedance - this stuff in most likely 50 Ohm , What makes coax 50 , 75 etc. impedance is the dimensional relationship between the 2 conductors - the center wire & outside shield , and the plastic between .
RF is cool .
Hey Ben great video. In your videos including this one, people comment on how such and such component is worth big money. Have you ever scored on any of those comments?
The RRH is used for microwave backhaul. Here in the states.
It's a microwave transceiver, those 'channels' are waveguides, the microwave energy is received by the antennas and travels along the waveguides, being filtered by those odd-looking polished items which are inductors and capacitors (they have screws to make them tunable). When frequencies are up around 1 GHz to over 3 GHz, electronics starts to look more like plumbing. Everything is silver plated due to 'skin effect' (current travels in the skin of the metal and not deep inside) which reduces impedance (which is like resistance, but applies to AC). The silver is usually only microns thick and won't be worth any trouble to remove. But for fun you might want to send the silver items to auction and see what happens. The power transistors on that gold-plated board are probably worth $200 to $300 EACH. I didn't see it, but I would have expected a precision clock (often worth $150 to resell) somewhere. They are temperature stabilized and are so precise that they are almost as good as atomic clocks.
nice really nice i got muy self like 60 of those big babys the one you end the show with i Will see how much ill get from 5 of them big boards
Hello
My english is not so good so i have a question
Does these telecom boards that U showed in the video worth for gold refining? And what aboud the yield?
Sorry for my typing mistakes and thanks for your intresting video
00:37 no! It just shortens the copper RF run to the antennas and that makes it more energy efficient!
hey, grind the coating off the screws left on the cover you pulled off, they appear to be platinum plated gold, i just tore one done myself the screws that are the same coloe as those round things, let me know what you think. i believe those screws that are set at differnt depths are what you are after
Where did you get it from
i got some erricson ones well lots really , are they worth owt full untouched
Hi Ben, would the gold plating on these boards be the same as gold flashing we have seen on other boards?? Or perhaps actually plated gold. Thank you again for all your videos. Adam.
most likely flashed but there are different thicknesses so could be closer to plated but not quite
Yes it would be good for Mark to start up his own channel
Well Been great teardown video but would have liked to have seen you tear down that first heat sink! Makes me wonder what was inside of it?? I guess we can all say, "that was one screwed up system"!
hey bro , im in Canada , me and a bro did work on some tel com , look under the white caps bro , use heat they will come off , should be some fine gold bonding wires
I have one of these. I'm currently recovering from it's about twice the size of this one
Nice video and nice screwdriver bit set. What's the brand name?
I just got a huge load of this kind of stuff here in Canada all nortel new bridge rock well lots of Texas instrument Motorola cpu 4 pounds of gold plated pins almost 600 lbs of Telecom grade board
Like Placas de telefonia é muito rica👏👏👏👍
30 20 i can see you getting excited i was having it too cool
Hi Ben, I have at least most of My first vidio on after weeks of faliers, Hard to explain but have Campac camara which is good but in My case not user frindly, Having tough time finding computer for upload as have spent app, four days and njghts just loading 70 % so far, Not much to be proud of here but plan to keep trying, Thank You for the inspiration, Your vidio on how much money you make on vidios convinced Me to try, Im shakeing My fist at Your site right now, (ha ha ha ) Best wishes Dee,,
How many gold in one telecommunication motherboard like that??
49:15 wishing those board were massive gold :) even gold plated looks so much gold on it, how much grams would there be on those 2 boards?
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how I'm collect gold from this board..?
How many gold in one telecommunication motherboard??
That is craazy looks like ufo technology
That T-Shirt... 😏
you know that aluminiun is plated with silver at the inside and all this screwes as well
you will find beauty inside 8 35
Its cute how he called the female DIN fiber connectors
how many price scrape RRU board
Colin Fuse?
That big round thing at the roughly 19:00 minute mark looks to be an RF filter. That should have a heavily gold plated item in it. On that housing with the zillion screws, pop one of those polished domes off if you can they are likely silver. Under it you may find a small RF filter. Your magnet test might have found the magnets inside the filter and not steel.
33 15 all of it is silver plated mate
The Altera chip is worth big $...
54:02 thats alot of gold dang
I wonder how many idiots are going to be climbing cell towers to steal these after watching this
William Kent I hope they do. I'll make money off all those people by fixing the sites. Lol
A LOT!
13 30 i did at the first one lol
25 00 all of that thing is silver plated and screws is stainless steel
maybe so many screws to prevent ppl from going u there and stealing shit from it lets see whats inside first is guess...
Ever heard of Multi tasking?
Hi telecom material and motherboard available please reply me
33:33 Antena duplexer
Hi, I am an Iranian, and unfortunately I do not know much about English, and I do not know what you say. I had a question about whether gold was selling them or selling them elsewhere.
try google translate
How much grams gold
Tell Mark to start his channel
47 55 jus beauty fof see it
Gold Bond wires under the gold and white cer man torch them off and see
Hey buddy, you have a lot of silver coated aluminum in there. Don’t scrap it with your regular aluminum
hi what would you do instead? could you help me with idea how to get more money instead of scraping for aluminum ?
Hey Ben, i am a Scrapperette and wonder where i can find that
You'd probably need to look in dumpsters around industrial/technology type areas
thanks Ben
it's not just aluminum it's silver plated 32:00
microwave guide channel cavity
it looks like a wave guide to me
We sign a confidentiality contract so we can't post info to public on these.
The aluminum cases are usually silver plated
That's High Frequency Voodoo stuff.
Yeah, often this guy is scrapping down things and *totally destroying* the expensive components which could be sold for 20-50 Euros per piece. It would be better if he would get an electronics buddy to help him sort out good stuff first.
Grüße aus Österreich!
Maybe Aussie50
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Niçe
Credit?!!
It's up top, but you gotta get a channel up, your dumpster diving would put the rest to shame :)
Yay hard rubbish
Open a hardware shop and sell screws!
I have 50 of them I am going to process .
From where
nice just don't send shortwave to russia