Vince's Repair Thread - (Console Repairs & Mods)
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So I learned quite a lot about elite 2 pads after installing a load of sets of hall effects in one last night... Basically the hall sticks currently available for the elite 2 are not at all viable, dont calibrate well at all and just dont really work. The pad does something super clever in firmware that the elite 1 doesnt, it constantly auto centers within a small zone around center, think of it auto centering in the dead zone... it works well up until a point and then wont try and auto center because it thinks the pad is being used to push a direction... It's really clever.. I did a vid of the halls and what they look like that I will show and also a vid of the normal replacement sticks after going through 3 sets of halls I can say for sure it's not viable for now on the elite v2 without a custom board from some dude in china that seems to have fixed exactly what I am seeing.
Anyway the spoils of that battle were this Xbox pad, dude wanted green so it's green, white, black and gold. You are either going to love it or hate it.
Anyway the spoils of that battle were this Xbox pad, dude wanted green so it's green, white, black and gold. You are either going to love it or hate it.
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There are indeed and they work nice!
Well I repaired my mechanical keyboard I bought from OCUK probably about a decade ago :O
It's a QPAD one with old skool 2 legged round LED diodes in each Cherry MX brown switch. I managed to get some of the dodgey switches fixed - which were ghost typing sometimes - by just dribbling some IPA down inside them, and operating the switch several times until it dried out.
As for the LEDs, a couple had burnt out so I wanted to replace them. I had the idea of using some of the same coloured LEDs from the scroll lock, num lock and caps lock so they would be the exact correct colour and spec, and then replace the num/caps/scroll with new colours to something funky. So here's how it went...
I managed to hold my soldering iron over the two legs of each of the old blue LEDs to get them out ok. Same with the ones over the num/caps/scroll, but these ones were offset on stand offs a bit different. No drama though.
I replaced the blue ones that were bad with the now spare ones and they worked and when set to the 4 different brightness levels, they were generally pretty good and in line with all the others, if anything a tiny bit brighter, but barely noticeable. Cool.
Then I went to replace the num/scroll/caps leds and faced some issues. First of all I bought two different types, green and pinky/purple. I did this because they operated at different voltages and I was not sure what spec to get. Off the top of my head it was something like 2.5 to 3v. Anyway, the green ones would not dim on the lower settings at all, but the pink ones did fine. So I thought I would use the pink ones.
Unfortunately when I did the through hole soldering on these ones, I just could not get the solder to flow into hole and make a good connection, despite best efforts, multiple techniques and a load of flux. In the end, I think I end up just scorching the PCB and damaging the traces inside the hole perhaps. I gave up. The num/scroll/caps all still function, just no LEDs now. My soldering skills are very limited. I have a very basic iron. Oh well.
you could swing it to me
I could probably fix your keyboard.Would you?!
I could send it all over with all the LEDs I got. You could do a post on here about it.
Keeping the old dog running would be good. I hate throwing electrical things away due to repair incompetence!
I'm normally pretty good but this one is beyond my skill and equipment set.
Yea of course cant be worse that the steam deck USB-C port I spent 2 hours fixing last night lol
Also tonight we are going to attempt the BLOD ps4 console. I got my little UART reader and BWE sent me some of his software stuff to use so hopefully I will be away.
Will probably take a syscon reading from the BC PS3 at the same time to try and work out what that actually needs.
Last night I had a little revisit on my pile of One X systems that id put to one side as donors... Turns out I gave up to early... 2 were actually easy fixes and only needed retimers. Happy days The other two I was right to put to one side. One has a short APU side of the main power rails, the other is just dead and missing some rails so it's probably not actually worth the time considering its got other cosmetic issues etc as well.. So those 2 can stay in the donor pile
Will probably take a syscon reading from the BC PS3 at the same time to try and work out what that actually needs.
Last night I had a little revisit on my pile of One X systems that id put to one side as donors... Turns out I gave up to early... 2 were actually easy fixes and only needed retimers. Happy days
The other two I was right to put to one side. One has a short APU side of the main power rails, the other is just dead and missing some rails so it's probably not actually worth the time considering its got other cosmetic issues etc as well.. So those 2 can stay in the donor pile
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Not console related but i managed to get a bench setup with my old pace soldering station and a cheap 12v bench supply. And i managed to fix my old BK Active sub, forgot how easy it was to work on audio gear, none of this micro SMD work
This is what you need! slowly as you go... eventually you could have a mess as messy as mine
@BuffetSlayer - I should really get your pad back to you.. she is working a treat. I'll message you tomorrow and let's get it back home.
I have no idea but the ginfull ones do ok