A Viewer sent me this RING Indoor Camera with a SHORT! Can it be fixed?
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- Опубліковано 26 гру 2022
- Hey everyone, I hope you are all keeping well. In this video I attempt to fix a RING Indoor Camera with a dead short. Every time you plug it cuts off the power supply.
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Remember that this is just for entertainment, and I am not an expert in these repairs. The processes in the video may not be the best way, the correct way or the safest way to fix these things. I do love fault finding and trying to fix broken things, so I hope that comes across in this 'Trying to FIX' series. Many thanks, Vince. - Навчання та стиль
You are very Relatable. You are spreading the joy of Right To Repair. Now we need more pressure on manufacturers to knock off this Proprietary BS and stop limiting people who want to fix their items.
No
@@SilverFang95why not?
I agree! Its so much better for the environment😊 if we are allowed to fix our own stuff!
i love this series and channel, because of instead saying “ah they did it wrong, ah newbie mistake” and trying to teach the proper way (not that it’s wrong, it’s just repetitive) you actually mess around and find out, in the most entertaining way, also you contribute to lowering the thrown out, repeairable stuff, even if it’s by a small bit, you inspire me, trying to fix stuff without most of the proper tools is close to my situation, meaning that i don’t feel left out of a challenge only because of not having expensive tools, thank you for your service vince ❤
Yes, that is known as a "waste of time".
You're supposed to be resting Mr. Vince 🤪 I have your gift here, being collected by RM tomorrow on 48hr delivery so please keep an eye on your P.O box 😁
needs to get the content out
Hi Vince,next time a voltage regulator / buck converter fails remove it from the board and look up on the data sheet the output voltage .
Work out where the 3.3v or whatever is generated and inject with your power supply that voltage but current limited.
That way you will see if the device has just failed or the load is excessive .It will also mean you don’t have to buy the device to prove the fault .
Could even then flying wire some other regulator to supply the 3V to replace the 'proper' one. I shouldn't think these things have to provide a lot of power.
Great attempt Vince👍👍. Still very useful for people to know how to open it up! It was broken and is still broken so nothing lost really, and knowledge gained! I've got a broken Ring chime to look at. Not done a video on that one yet..
Loads of new MMV content this week, you're keeping me and every one else entertained for sure, thanks Vince :)
Thanks Mike 👍👍
My 4yr old loves watching your videos, when we were setting up his TV that we got him for Christmas he pointed to the ethernet port "That's where the ethernet cable goes, it gives you a better connection than wifi. It's also called a LAN cable. And that's an HDMI port, that's where consoles plug in." My husband was stunned that he knew all that, and it's all thanks to your channel!
That's lovely to hear!!!!! Thank you 👌❤️
Love your work Vince! It's definitely been an inspiration to try and fix my own things. I also love the eagerness to have a go at things that don't already have guides, gives it a real pioneer feeling to the videos. Keep up the great work, I already can't wait for the next video!
Great to see how to get inside these, and tracing through to the faulty part =D You cannot win em all, but I suspect you will fix another one with the parts from this in future =D
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Merry Christmas to you and your family have wonderful holiday Thanks for taking the time out to show us your videos again we appreciate you Very much Keep playing them 😀 😊
You are still relatable you fix things like I would like someone who don't have a lot of experience. you help me with things that have springs sprockets and gears I've seen you fix a clock a phone amongst other things thanks for the confidence to figure those things out.
Another super interesting video where I learn a lot even though Vince didn't get his fix for a fix that he/we so craves. I always love the background noise of Mrs Vince or the kids in the kitchen sorting out stuff. Happy New Year hopefully a year you get the Rolls-Royce on the highways and byways in 2023.
You have made it easy for those that follows you, there must be someone to take the plunge to fix and learn we do.
You certainly inspired me to start fixing things Vince, i have broken Bluetooth speakers all over the place in my house. Thanks for putting me onto " Buy it fix it " channel, i have picked up so much more fixit knowledge from him. Keep your great videos coming.
Please send the " buy it fix it " link
@@johnlamberti2735 He is in the comments, above this one!
Thanks
Love your videos Vince and you have inspired me to fix my Rockin Robbie Christmas tree that had stopped working. My other half was very happy as she hates it but I was devastated as its part of Christmas for me. I got the tools out, started roubleshooting the issue and fixed it (replaced the button with a tactile switch). When I pressed the button and it came back to life I shouted a Vince "YES" Anyway thx Vince and I'm looking forward to the videos in 2023.
They purposely make those things unfixable and replaceable. Good try at figuring it out. I'm sure it will be a revisit video. Thanks for all you do, Vince. I learn a lot from your videos and everyone's comments.
yes SMD's surface mount devices have been the death of the servicing trade
Great gob vince & hope you had a good christmas & all the best for 2023 😀
Vince does talk a lot.
there are several other manufacturers that fabricate pin compatible alternative buck converters. these are the bread and butter of many electronic devices these days and chances are, you will have spares on some other boards already.
Vince, I can imagine you as a child, taking things apart to see how they work. I did and became a piano tuner/technician. Keep up the good work. Paul.
Hey up Vince, happy new year buddy, recently found your channel via watchmaking videos, subbed and catching up with the backlog, happy new year from one fixer upper to another 👍
nice one vince good fault finding very hard to get open sir
Nice video, Vince!
Happy New Year Vince
Hope you had a great Christmas Vince
I still think you should buy the regulators. Not from the UK seller but from Ali express. I don't think that's the only time you'd need that type of regulator. Might be a common regulator in consumer electronics. So It won't hurt having some on hand.
It's a buck converter, not a regulator.
There are dozens of different converters available in that package, and they're largely not interchangeable without replacing the SMD support components.
Not worth it.
Arrow electronics have them in stock at 0.25 USD. Not sure what will be the shipping charge to UK
@@incandescentwithrage thanks for clarifying
You can buy directly from TI 0.848 Euro/pce + postage.
@@incandescentwithrage Agreed, and to further your comment--purchasing any SMD components through Ali Express is not a great idea. There is no way to ensure the chips aren't recycled or rejects. It's common for Ali parts to work for awhile and suddenly die, or just not work at all. Lot's of counterfeits with no actual silicon too, just a blob of epoxy with pins and laser etched. It's pretty sad.
Hi, when you first started trying to fix those x Box systems and even though repairing those is quite complicated, I could watch those everyday and , thats when I became very interested in your show, Ive always been very fascinated with electronics and computers and just how sophisticated and complex ordinary everyday devices are such as gaming type devices and your videos intrigue me very much. I hope you will be doing more of those in the coming months.
Happy new year mate. 🎉
Cheers Adam, Happy New Year to you too buddy 👍
I liked this video very much. Thank you for all of your great videos.
I have several of these, the stick up versions are HORRIBLE in cold weather. Even at just above freezing, battery life is short and the operation even shorter.
Nice job taking apart a device that was not designed to be repaired, terrible because of what they cost!
Love the video. Have you ever covered what cameras you use?
Another fun video. Thank you Vince 😊
Thanks Sheryl 👍👌
Vince I actually have that indoor ring camera! It’s awesome for monitoring specific places! Yes with a different micro usb cable it’s a bit finicky to plug it in!
That trick for finding hot chips is great
Unusual but Vince fixes anything - Probably even a jet engine with a couple other people 🤣
still very informative and not to mention the fault finding :)
Hi Vince. Love all your videos. You may have covered this in a past video, but what camera do you use for the pretty close up shots you take when doing PCB work, etc.? Just curious. Keep up the great work.
The big inductor next to the chip is a dead give-away it's a buck or boost power supply and the chip is the controller. You can also tell it's not a reg because it has 5 pins.
Hi Vince,
Been watching your channel for a long time now and enjoy your trying to fix videos. This is the first time I have ever contacted any creator on UA-cam, but I also have one of these ring cameras which is faulty. I need to identify a component on the board and wondered if I gave you more info would you be willing to look on your board and tell me the number on the ic.
Keep up the good work
Dave
Nice little video
I enjoy putting as much as I can in landfills
Nice video as always Vince, i've found a dyson fan cheap on ebay maybe you will check the listing
HAR! The company I work for had to deal with a lot of (costly) mayhem surrounding TI's cranky power conversion ICs, although in our case I think it ended up being a board layout issue (not my end of the business, so...)
The beauty of having ago fixing something likw this is its low voltage so its pretty harmless and not much can go wrong. Im sure with these you get Lifetime warranty if you have the ring subscription probably why very few teardowns.
I will interrupt anything for a 40 minute Vince fix. For sure.
2:37 « part of the challenge is trying to get into this thing ».
Reminds me of my ex-wife
It was worth it for the learning.
im actually shocked vince...you would fix a nasa shuttle if u found one😂...great vid my bro...see on the next one
hi vince been a fan for a long time now, i have a fly controller from prosound and i plugged it in and it went bang and i've opened it up and it is slightly burnt so a component has deffinetly gone, i can send it off to you if you want, i thought it could be an interesting video
Them eBay prices are insane. Can get them from LCSC for pennies
I know its not going to arrive as quick but for the price you can order a whole bunch of them and keep spares for future repairs right?
My goto part supplier. so much cheaper than ebay/CPC
Thanks!
Wow, thank you so much! That is really generous of you 🙏👍👍
Nice fault finding Vince better luck next time
so it's a shring
a shorted ring camera
lol
nice video again btw Vince
Nice fault finding, at least you managed to make it do something for a while :) Any Rolls-Royce videos coming in near future?
It's very rainy and quite cold at the moment.
Not as bad as Finland (I bet) where the weather (and Russia) makes people very depressed (I hear) but not good weather to repair the Rolls Royce.
@@travisash8180 Ok, just thought maybe there's some footage not yet released before winter. Really like the Rolls-Royce restoration video series :)
Indeed here in Finland it's cold and snowy, darkest season of the year. Haven't seen much sunshine in many weeks, solar panels are useless here at this time of the year which makes electricity painfully expensive.
Vince u are t he best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iFixit has a tear down of this particular camera from what I can see. They've had one published since 2019 called the 'ring Stick Up Cam with Quick Release Battery' teardown.
I was thinking if you can run jumper wires from the working regulators to the pads you removed from
If their is a problems with ring devices and your paying for cloud subscription ring will send you a replacement but you do have to send the faulty unit back for them to repair
yep, they want that monthly fee!
"I'd go as far as to say it was horrible to take apart... WHICH IS THE TOTAL OPPOSITE OF THOSE LOVELY PEOPLE OVER AT THE MYMATEVINCE MASSIVE!"
D: Vince has become so addicted to taking things apart and fixing them that he's started taking apart his own patrons. D:
The TX and RX are probably UART serial used during software development.
28:31 wow £480 postage, sounds like a bargain
wow! talk about pulling your pants down!! .... certainly made my eyes water!
Surly at Christmas time, this would have been the perfect opportunity to send him something that works.
hi are the voltage regulators all the same or are they different voltages?
I'm seeing 10 packs of those things for under $3 shipped on Aliexpress, to America anyway, don't know for UK.
Maybe a revist in the future?
A destructive nightmare to get in but fun on the inside. Next time I bet you can fix it because you know how by now.
Yes ❤️
I also have one this happened. No apparent reason, just went offline one day. Pretty sure its a design malfunction. Possibly best to replace the regulator with something different and somewhat more rugged, it seems as it may have been under stress when running.
Vince, slightly off topic a little - have you seen a channel called Learn Electronic Repair? English Guy in Canary Isles (Phil The Coder follows him too). Take alook if you have not seen his channel, I think you might be able to learn some serious stuff!! Also I may be in touch with you soon myself as I have something not working and I think you will enjoy this, it'll be something similar you have done in the past, but you have not as far as I am aware attempted to fix one of these!
One downside I can think of is me killing myself trying to fix something 🤣 lol I'm joking great video vince keep it up!!
vince i would like if you to were work on much higher voltage stuff for example power supplies not very popular maybe and dangerous but its how you learn not picking the safe ones all the time not a criticism just a friendly suggestion all the best mate and i hope you and your family have a very happy new year.
They are too dangerous. Also they are cheap to buy new.
@@ligametis it's not really the point of this channel though really is it
@@bernardleaf1397 Danger, benefit and price ratio just doesn't make much sense to repair power supplies. Especially if you go to the next level of danger. Like microwaves, hifi sound amplifiers.
@@ligametis microwaves i agree with you on but all the other stuff no i don't power supplies are a part of all elecronic repair like it or not.
@bernardleaf1397 nah, whenever I see capacitor in hundreds or even thousands Volt range, I am not touching that.
Of course some 3-20v power supply where capacitors are max 60v or so are fine.
I thought when you were talking about power supplies, you meant like all of them.
Is it just me or would "Dead Short" be a better name for Vince's shorter "Tea Break Fix" video's... or maybe a podcast?!
Wait till those Xmas gifts come in 😂
If the buck converter ic is bad and passing the full supply voltage straight through you would be putting an over voltage to the circuits it supplies.
Luckily this one shorted to ground. So electricity being lazy took the easiest path to ground rather than through another device.
Even your "failures" are worth watching :)
Realy great try, 5⭐for efford and a good example for the need for "right to repair",
btw...@28:20 £480,- postage???? that must be flown in on a private jet omg
I'm fairly certain he damaged the second voltage regulator simply because he didn't identify the faulty component that killed the original voltage regulator. This component worked from factory, but something slowly degraded to cause that voltage reg to short to ground. Usually it's a capacitor out of spec. These voltage converters are programmable, meaning they use a series of resistors and capacitors to set the output rail. If there happens to be a faulty capacitor partially shorting to ground, it won't show up afterwards because the capacitor high side is floating. When he made the swap, the functional chip eventually failed as well because it was overdrawing current through that capacitor. They can only handle so much overdraw before they internally fail...which is what happened here.
🤔 What happened to Ellensburg Amplifier Repair? Their absence from the MMVM stands out.
@15:31 the right hand middle MLCC has a crack through it… that’s the bad one. The top left one also looks suspect, but it could be nothing.
Nice attempt it may have worked if you had just replaced the one that was faulty and left the others where they were also replacing all components taken off , The capacitors smoothing the power might be for the chips and if there's to many /or heavy spiking in the power it may damage the chips or have unintended results in the way it functions
Anyways hopefully the next repair is successful it's been great to watch and learn from your experiences keep it up Vince
A few faulty dead (un)expensive Asus routers on ebay atm, that maybe of interest for a fix vid.
We need modular design by manufacturers. Even taking off those SO23 voltage regs that Vince did there is not easy for 99.99% of us. Replacing a module would be more expensive than replacing 1 component but better than landfill and within the capability of more people.
Not sure if I am correct about this but the antenna wasn't connected, could it have made the device appear offline?
Very nice one vince
When will next video of Rolls Royce come out
Very early January, I have about 3 days of footage so editing will take a while. It's on the front brake pads, brake hoses and cylinder seals, then bleeding 👍👍👍
@@Mymatevince
Oh cool
Great vid but you really need to straighten your tweezers 😁 Happy holidays!
Was just checking for the part at Mouser and Digikey, both have it in stock or will have it "soon-ish" depending on the version of the part.
But shipping costs are... rough.
I know some retro-computer UA-camrs get supported by PCB manufacturers.
Why not try to get in touch with Mouser (or Digikey) and try to get sponsored by them?
They cost under $3 for 10 on Aliexpress from China, where the thing is made anyway.
Who cares if it takes a couple weeks on shipping for low cost parts like those.
@@biohaz360 because you never know if broker parts are old, were properly stored, are rebranded or something like that. It is just anoter potential fault you are buying. If no other options are available you can go that round but at mouser you van get them for a dollar plus 20 fpr shipping. and you will receive fresh genuine parts from an authorized seller.
@@biohaz360 aliexpress is like buying a dvd in a dark alley from some guys trenchcoat. sure it can be good quality, but you never know until you tried what you bought.
@@crowbarviking3890 I agree for certain parts, like mosfets or low esr capacitors, but Digikey here in the States charges $7 minimum for shipping.
Ebay and Amazon also sell fake parts, hell even Walmarts app lists 1TB micro sd cards for $10, I'm sure those are real...
Hi Vince , I have been looking at your tutorials On Huawei internet Device, I have been lent a Huawei B315 with a antenna, which seems to sort of work I keep losing Internet every so often, One thing I’ve got to say I live in part of Royal France but I can’t find anybody that can help me I’m an old geezer who don’t know anything about Wi-Fi devices and modems and things, I’m looking to replace the B315 with a device if possible what would you recommend I’m obviously an antenna as well and it needs a Sim card in it so I can connect to the Internet my property at present does not have any means of telephone line or fibre connection, Part of the reason why I want to replace it is that I was lent it for my friend and I found out that he can gain access to my Internet and email address as he has all my information for me to login on my phone and iPad and devices so I need to replace the Huawei router with a new one, If you can help me please it will be very much appreciated, PHIL FROM THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOULIN FRANCE.
Hi do you want to make a Video about a Insta 360 X2 with a light water damage?
He sounds so different I haven’t been here for 5 years
Where is Rolls Royce? 🥲
Whats the downside to fixing things? well nothing really except when you shock yourself and fuse your bollox together! 😂😂👍👍
Shocking yourself is the exciting part, like on a Ryobi charger with 2 330v caps
Friend of mine gave me one of those led bulb shaped camera which connects to a smartphone through wifi, it is stuck in blinking red light stage, i don't know what is the fault. Also I made the same mistake of unscrewing the lens part on camera. If anybody have any idea how to fix such issue please let me know here, it is powered by mains, and the power supply is fine, it is stuck in startup process somewhere, I have tried resetting few times but no luck.
Hi Vince. The electric tooth brush I sent you. When is the video coming out?
Mid January hopefully Toby👍👍👍
Isn't that heatsink actually a counter-weight?
should get a thermal imaging camera , will get a better result, in its a ir sensor
2:00 what stuff are you using? Generally interested...
You mean external power bank, USB cable and extra cheap USB voltage meter?
Hmm yeah it was very interesting even though a failure you proved basically what made it fail to begin with.
Is it worth ordering some off AliExpress and doing a revisit?
Maybe that's the plan ?
have you ever repaired any minidisc players before
I wonder why there are so many buck regulators for the different components
Ring camera.
Big Brother IS watching you!.
Some items just can't be saved for an appropriate price. That's the lesson here