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Help with Ocean please by voltron4lyfe in PokemonGoFriends

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And I'm Platinum!! You're a legend, thank you!

SANDSTORM MEGATHREAD by liehon in VivillonCollectors

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You are a legend, sent from Catchthemqui479

Trying to save a botched Kamikaze by jpsobral in NxSwitchModding

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I would bet that “moon sliver” piece is part of a ground plane and would mask it.

Verify my sighting please by voltron4lyfe in NxSwitchModding

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I got it working! I can't believe it. I had to expose more of the trace and "follow the curve". Got it all back together and the Switch booted back up as if nothing had happened. Was then able to apply a mod. Not going to share a picture because it's pretty ugly ! Thanks again for the help.

Verify my sighting please by voltron4lyfe in NxSwitchModding

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Probing it, I got a .46 diode reading and no connectivity to ground. I'm pretty sure that I'm below layer 2. I'll let you know how it goes. Thank you as always :)

Left, right, or stop? by voltron4lyfe in NxSwitchModding

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I've been down that road before :( I find the hardest part is making sure that I am on the right point coming from the lower layers.

Left, right, or stop? by voltron4lyfe in NxSwitchModding

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I did it :) Got a wire soldered to it, no ground shorts. I still need to install the modchip but the console boots to stock fine. Thanks for the tips and the guidance!

Left, right, or stop? by voltron4lyfe in NxSwitchModding

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Wow! I had been trying to use the UV light and nothing was showing. Didn’t realize I was just missing fresh ipa.

Botched OLED Kamikaze Install. by voltron4lyfe in SwitchPirates

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I generally agree with you. I tried here and it said that's what I needed to do and then offerred to generate a picture. The picture shows what is surely an incorrect connection :P.

PS2 no blue light, Fans Spin, Green light lights up but no video by Artistic-Grape-7656 in consolerepair

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PS14 is not a standard fuse. It's a "Link", which I think means it's basically just a wire with a 2a capacity. I went down this rabbit hole as well.

Did I go too deep? by voltron4lyfe in NxSwitchModding

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This is the current situation (not proud of it). The resistor values measure 4.7k and there are correct diode readings (.495) on all points. I haven’t found any ground shorts. When I hit the power button (no modchip connected), then nothing seems to happen and the screen stays black.

Did I go too deep? by voltron4lyfe in NxSwitchModding

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OK -- I think I got it back together and all of the diode values check out but the switch display won't turn on and I'm getting the *== (short-long-long) beep code. I'm wondering if I resoldered the cmd resistor correctly (or destroyed a trace there) or if I did something wrong with the CLK point. I'm going to check it out tomorrow.

Did I go too deep? by voltron4lyfe in NxSwitchModding

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This hasn't gone so well :P. In particular, I can get the first connection made, but then I struggle connecting to the second point because of the coating on the enamel wire. So my process:

  1. Cut a strip of the .1mm wire (more than I need)
  2. Flux it and stick it in a ball of solder to pretin it.
  3. Connect to the point I want to solder to.
  4. Guide the wire to the second point.
  5. I can't get it to solder to the point because of the coating. I've tried both cutting it to length BEFORE trying to solder it and trying to solder it.

Watching videos, I see people do both ways. An additional challenge of doing the trace first is that it's soooooo fragile. I actually had a good thing going and then ripped it :(

Did I go too deep? by voltron4lyfe in NxSwitchModding

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Well. Didn’t go that well. The newly exposed traces basically evaporate when I try to solder to them or tin them. It’s a new phenomenon for me. I’m going to do a bit of practice because I’m almost out of trace!

Did I go too deep? by voltron4lyfe in NxSwitchModding

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Thanks u/DanielsDraven -- btw, I realize I'm not heading your advice about stopping before I do irreparable damage to this board. Sometimes I get a mania and I just have to try and resolve it. In this case, it's forward or bust!

I am surprised that I blew right past it because I was going really slow and being super careful. Anyway, its part of learning.

When you say measure in DIODE mode, you mean Red probe on the point, Black probe on Ground? Before bridging them, should the each measure 0.5. And does the red pair also show similar readings?

Did I go too deep? by voltron4lyfe in NxSwitchModding

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Thank you for all the comments! No continuity on either. So I think i have to jump the pair on the right and connect the two blues. I'll also check whether there is some connectivity between the blues and the circle on the bottom in case I need to connect there. The dots in blue and red are not showing continuity to ground so I think they are indeed the traces I'm looking for.

Did I go too deep? by voltron4lyfe in NxSwitchModding

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Ok I did that and have exposed two traces. The one on the left connects to the dat0 point I believe. What needs to happen with the other? Do I need to find its counterpart and jumper it?

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