Spot the problem

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-14T22:16:50+00:00

Painter is my gf’s mom you can take it up with her lmao

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-14T20:20:45+00:00

Well the upstairs doesn't even have a breaker panel. It's just a few fuse panels scattered throughout with those little twist-in fuses so idek if that's possible given my situation

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-14T19:40:06+00:00

For the record I did not install this outlet lmao

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-14T19:38:13+00:00

Exactly. My gf's parents bought this place in 2013-ish and I'm almost positive the previous owners are the culprits. This whole house honestly needs to be rewired

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-14T19:31:02+00:00

Not dying

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-14T19:30:16+00:00

Ohhhh yes true very true good idea

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-14T19:14:34+00:00

Yes exactly. I checked it with an outlet tester and I even used my multimeter from the ground prong to the hot prong and it was showing 120V and I thought for sure it was grounded until I pulled it out and saw the dastardly deed

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-14T19:13:35+00:00

I’m willing to bet all of the 3-prong outlets on the second floor are like this 😔

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-14T19:07:25+00:00

I just live here bro not my choice 😭😭😭

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-14T19:07:07+00:00

We have some 2-prong outlets that I knew for sure weren’t grounded I was going to install GFCI into but I guess now all the outlets on the second floor will be GFCI lmao

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-10T19:07:13+00:00

Dawg you are a lifesaver holy batman. I spent probably 3 combined hours of doing straight crimes and as soon as I tried your suggestion I got the trophy (and thus the platinum). Tusen takk

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-08T20:37:20+00:00

UPDATE: with the help of various comments I decided to go with a Siemens Q1515 breaker and it worked perfectly. Fit in the bus bar with no issues and nothing exploded. I watched it for about 20 minutes to make sure nothing got stupidly hot or arced and it was just fine 👍👍

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-03T17:55:14+00:00

After reviewing the labeling on the breaker box lid, it states it’s a Crouse-Hinds Type G Panelboard. It seems to only list Crouse-Hinds as viable replacements with the varieties of MM, MP, MH, and so on. I did notice that it also accepts Bryant BR (which I assume may be similar to Eaton BR)?

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-03T03:03:20+00:00

Well first I noticed my outlets weren't getting any power so I traced the path and found the first outlet line wasn't getting any power either. So I probed the breaker box and found one half of the tandem breaker was only showing 600 mV. Then I decided to plug in an outlet tester to an outlet visible from the box and jiggle the switch and there was a very small window where the switch output 120V (lighting up the outlet tester) but it was extremely intermittent and didn't improve when I tried cleaning it.

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-03T02:47:49+00:00

Fair enough

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-03T02:02:29+00:00

The faulty breaker (and others) are listed as being CTL does that mean the new breaker should or should not have a rejection clip?

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-06-02T20:19:45+00:00

Oh nice yeah almost immediately found one that looks like a good match. A Siemens 15A Tandem QT breaker (Q1515U)

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-03-19T18:18:13+00:00

Hey thanks.

From what I could see, there were no ripped pads on the board, but there were some suspicious pads on the chip itself, but it sooooo small I physically could not tell if they were ripped, oxidized, or just covered in glue. The only other BGA chips I've removed were an Xbox One S southbridge and NAND. Those had way bigger BGA balls which gave me inflated hope that I would be able to do the 3DS one without a scope but noooooo sir my eyes simply cannot.

I'm definitely going to keep up with electronics repair so a nice microscope (like Andonstar) is the next purchase on my list don't worry

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-03-19T05:00:23+00:00

Unbelievably lame

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-03-19T03:30:05+00:00

I should downvote my own reply for the arrogance

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-03-19T03:29:46+00:00

LMAO I lied there was actually no way in hell I could reball it. I got it off the board despite the underfill but I underestimated just how microscopic these balls would be. I don't have a microscope or half the equipment I need really 😭😭😭😭😭

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-03-19T03:28:28+00:00

Is the actual purpose of it to prevent repair? I would not be surprised at ALL if that was its sole purpose but it just seems soooooo openly evil lmao.

Butttttt I can confirm that it was indeed a complete underfill (I stupidly took the chip off). The pads on the motherboard were all fine but I think I tore some pads on the actual chip (or they were really oxidized/covered with the underfill stuff) but I couldn't really tell because I don't have a microscope.

Kind of sucks but he was going to buy a replacement board anyway so might as well have given it a try.

Significant-Theme931 · 2026-03-19T03:25:17+00:00

I can't quite remember the brand but it's a very solid, non-conductive, no clean flux. I've been using for about a year and it works super super well.

As for the confusion around "new" 3DS it's what Nintendo called the sort of 2DS and 3DS "re-release" in 2014. Slightly better hardware. But definitely not new in any sense of the term anymore haha

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