How not to repair a Playstation 4 - The Risks of Poor Eyesight

RE: How not to repair a Playstation 4 - The Risks of Poor Eyesight

dubbie — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 08:54:15 GMT

I bought some head mounted magnifying glass things and wish I had purchased them earlier. They are just great, with several different sets of lense magnifications. They have to be changed manually but they are not too difficult or time consuming to do. These have made a big difference to my soldering. I have also been thinking of getting a USB microscope - I have used them before at the University to show close-ups of components and soldering in classes. They were a bit of a pain to use but I think that was more the setup as it had to be networked.

Dubbie

RE: How not to repair a Playstation 4 - The Risks of Poor Eyesight

Jan Cumps — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:02:55 GMT

I looked closer at your previous repair post How not to repair a Playstation 4 - The Risks of Second Hand Electronics.

The pcb is burned up and became carbonised. Then the material becomes conductive.

You can measure that by putting a DMM in resistor mode on different points of the charred area...

RE: How not to repair a Playstation 4 - The Risks of Poor Eyesight

ntewinkel — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 22:19:06 GMT

I know the feeling!

I wear glasses too, being nearsighted, and often have to take them off to get up close to see better... I've tried with my prescription reading glasses (my prescription + or - whatever normal reading glasses are), but I think I need something stronger!

I find the little magnifier/solder-stand works well for some cases. I also now have granny's 1970's big magnifier lamp. I think I need to switch to an LED lightbulb cause that sucker gets hot! I see the new ones have ring lights built in.

I've been eyeing that type of USB microscope too, but the reviews I've seen have been mixed, like the slight delay in processing the image can be disorienting when working with the tiny parts.

Good luck on the PlayStation! Hope you do get it working again [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-ab9e27ce-41f9-4920-be59-4f52db9df0b9/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]

-Nico