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Wow PC Engine Pocket, that's a blast from the past, iirc they used to eat through batteries.
Vince's Repair Thread - (Console Repairs & Mods)
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Oh yes it absolutely devours batteries at game gear levels of battery usage! about 2 hours max on a set. With some mods I could probably get that to 10/15 hours. You can rip the 34v circuit out and wire in a tasty RGB screen (same as the nomad). Problem with the PC Engine / Turbo 16 is that you end up having to cut the shell up for that mod and id rather not if it is all still working. You should see the epic amount of wires in the nomad lol.
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Didn't realise old consoles used such a high voltage for the screens, I know it will be low current, but I just assumed all the lcds ran on 12v on similar. 6XAA as well and looking online, 3 hours or so life, so it's a competition between it and the game gear for worst battery life.
So all old consoles with colour screens are all basically running a similar 34v setup consoles with similar setups include Game Gear, Nomad, Lynx, PC Engine / Turbo 16.More modern stuff is certainly less voltage for example the switch v1/v2 and the lite put out 17v on their backlight circuit at full boost. There is a boost circuit on the switch that varies the voltage to the backlight via an IC rather than the old potentiometer that varies the voltage for the older stuff.
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Thermal cam said 12v mosfet. I injected 2.5v into the shorted 12v rail and that looks a bit different that sneaky mosfet.
Thermal cam was correct.
Just downloading some ray traced game to put it through its paces and see if it holds up... It should if the mosfet went out peacefully.
This is the sneaky chip:
Thermal cam was correct.
Just downloading some ray traced game to put it through its paces and see if it holds up... It should if the mosfet went out peacefully.
This is the sneaky chip:
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We do try
- Played an hour or so of Indiana Jones and she is a happy machine. Probably install some fortnite, die immediately and spectate a few games for some additional peace of mind but that's another we can call done. Just in time for another 3 series and a ps5 thats turning up tomorrow 
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In earlier post I could just about grasp what was being said immediately, I definitely have to work through the descriptions now to get an understanding ~
Im meant to be packing but one of the series x came in with the description "3rd party damaged the motherboard, apparently also no display." - had to open it up
Nexus connector was shorting out the SB board, swapped the connector with a donor and its golden - Right now time to get ready for some holidays!
Nexus connector was shorting out the SB board, swapped the connector with a donor and its golden
- Right now time to get ready for some holidays!
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Hello
I've got a ps5 controller drifting to the right on the left stick, can you help please?
Thanks
I've got a ps5 controller drifting to the right on the left stick, can you help please?
Thanks
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Of course I can. I'll make that controller work for years to come, or until you break it again
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Of course I can. I'll make that controller work for years to come, or until you break it again
Sorry I didn't get a notification they seem hit and miss just like the dual sense quality
Ok great thanks, to be honest my son's Fortnite obsession is the likely reason it's failed early, I'll probably be sending them to you every six months! Could you let me know the process please?
Yea you won't be swinging them to me every 6 months after we put some halls in..some halls should last you a crazy amount of time. Send me a pm and I'll give you an addy to swing them to. I'm away until the 14th so will be after then.
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Sounds good, I'm also away over the weekend but I'll try and get it shipped off beforehand, I'll send a pm now
We are back. The snow this year was insane, 2 days we couldn't ski because of avalanche risk so the resort was closed. But had a great time. Couple of pics:
Started expedition 33 on the Aya and seems like a pretty good game. Not to far through, finished the prologue and am somewhere in episode 1 so far so good. Little Aya chugs away at 50/60fps with some FSR and some tweaking of the settings:
Got home and thought I'd look at series x number 3.. Looks to be just a PSU on this one so nice easy fix.
Mr G guarding the other 2:
Started expedition 33 on the Aya and seems like a pretty good game. Not to far through, finished the prologue and am somewhere in episode 1 so far so good. Little Aya chugs away at 50/60fps with some FSR and some tweaking of the settings:
Got home and thought I'd look at series x number 3.. Looks to be just a PSU on this one so nice easy fix.
Mr G guarding the other 2:
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Your controller is next up on the bench.
Fixed up a couple of one x systems last night one was super interesting, no power partial short on 3v3 rail. I actually filmed chasing the short so will likely do a vid on that. I started editing it last night but it's 1 hour 30 ish for both xbox's so I'm still trying to edit it down a bit. That's a bit difficult when I won't shut up in the vid
Also slightly crazy that I see the very resort I just got home from on the news yesterday for people dying in avalanches. Crazy world, they closed the resort on our last day with 5/5 avalanche risk but reopened the next day after probably more than a meter of snow with a 4/5 risk and instructions to stick to piste only skiing but we were homeward bound by then so dodged a bullet.
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Ok all done...
This one has a new speaker design ive not seen before!
Gotta protect them plastics...
Ready for some new sticks!
New sticks in.
Back together with some new caps, screw in place while we solder the cables then pull it out to refit battery (god my keyboard is filthy... ill clean it soon!)
Recalibrated to factory specs - around 6 to 7% on both as this is roughly what the system expects. Perfect circularity <6% is bad!
Send me your addy and ill get it on its way home!
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