That TDK block you looked at in the CRT is a transformer and it likely wasn't bad. Likely the corrosion you found led to trace damage which cut off something important in the vertical deflection circuit. The slow death you witnessed where it had intemittent momentary vertical collapse would further point to a trace corroding away.
Fellow matt- your content is consistently high-enough quality that if I see your name in the notif, I immediately watch it. One of the few channels I watch. Kudos. Have a good day sir
I think it's probably an old form of genius. I remember buying products called "Cap'n Crunch Oops! All Berries" and (Product Name I Don't Remember) "Fun Shapes" (But when I opened the package it looked like a bunch of odd shapes and broken pieces.) I don't remember what the "Fun Shapes" product was (it was food of some sort), but I specifically remember thinking after opening the package: "Oh... clearly what happened here is someone at the factory pulled the wrong lever and a person in the marketing department was like: 'When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.'.".
@@Anthony_Marquis When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
It's here! The MVG thumbnail! Okay, for real though, failed videos feel like a waste of time, but they can be compiled like this into their own thing! Loved this vid.
Same; and even though it isn't his most popular video, I found it very entertaining and informative, and is my favorite one. I didn't have an NES; heck, we don't even have Nintendo here in India.
That gunck was not leaked capacitor oil, it was just soldering flux left by the manufacturer, usually it is not conductive and does not prevent it from working. You had to have unsoldered the part, and measured the board contacts without the part, as if it were shorted it would result in a low voltage reading. These CRTs are quite common to have bad contact in the welds due to the heat, you can check this simply by poking things with a piece of plastic or rubber and seeing if anything happens.
Bro I think I can help regarding the TV because I fixed two of these last week , one was a 14 inch TV and the other was a 1980 Sonodyne-Toshiba Colour TV (It was a very expensive TV of that time in India) so here is what was maybe wrong. First thing is to remove the vertical deflection chip entirely and then checking the voltages because the chip is prone to shorting on failing , which causes the voltage to drop , happened exactly in my case. If still the voltage is low , you should see a 25v 1000uf capacitor near the vertical ic , replace that one , and also replace the diode which goes from the transformer to the vertical ic. Now about the transformer , its probably okay , just has some burned traces but in case its dead , most CRT's have very similar boards so you should find one from a board which has near specs as your tv. If everything above fails , you can get CRT replacement boards for around 15-20 dollars ( they come without a RF port so you will need to buy an RF modulator alongside it ) and you can replace the original motherboards with those. If your crt has a thin neck , you need to buy a replacement thin neck board alongside which costs 1-2 dollars and replace it with the fat neck one on your replacement board. I'm definately sure you can make the CRT work again and hope you the best!!
3:53 If you hadn't broken the thing, here are some tips. The transformer may have gone bad but thats unlikely. There probably is a dead mosfet that is driving the transformer, and that dead mosfet looks to be the one on the bottom of the screen. But if the mosfet is fine then the mosfet driver is likely bad and not sending a voltage to the mosfet gate, but if that too is fine then the mosfet driver power supply is likely bad. BUT before all this, you should check if the vertical deflection chip is even operational. If VCC and GND is shorted in the chip, then the supply voltage will drop to like 0.1 to 0.5 volts. Or there are just some bad solder joints. BUT also the transformer probably isn't broken. The mosfet not designed to deal with a huge spike in current may have died and some kind of over current protection on the main PSU might of happened not letting the television turn on.
This was actually really interesting, I'm glad you were able to make a video out of these projects, even if they were fails. I like how you didn't instantly say what went wrong. I was literally making up theories on what could've happened as the video was going, which kept this really interesting and fun to watch. :)
Its great to see someone talk about screw ups in repair. Its comforting. I remember pulling a working dell inspiron gaming computer from the trash that was my ticket to cheap gaming. After extracting it and having it still work, I screwed up at the last moment by plugging in the wrong laptop display to eDP port, apparently stopping it from booting again, rendering it a lost cause even after waiting for capacitors to discharge
What I'm giving you MAJOR respect for is the fact that you credit the module musicians of the music you're using in the background. As a member of the scene, it's nice to get credit for our stuff when people use it, so thanks. Great video.
and you managed to turn all your failures into a success. this is a brilliant video that shows the wins/losses of repairs and some of the sometimes mundane stories that pop up along the way. I thoroughly enjoyed this one!
This really makes me appreciate just how dedicated you are to repairing things, especially with that iMac at the end! The new studio is looking awesome by the way, I look forward to seeing what exciting stuff you get up to :D
I think it's great that you feel comfortable with sharing your past mistakes with us. It's interesting to see what goes down when things aren't to plan, as well as a helpful reminder that we're all just human at the end of the day. Nice one Matt, much love and support from the UK.
No project is a failure if you learned something from it! Enjoying your vids, which I've just discovered tonight. Very entertaining and the subject matter is right up my alley. Also, your Aussie sense of humor reminds me of Code Bullet, whose work I also enjoy a great deal!
I remember when we had an old CRT TV. I had the basement as my bedroom at the time so I couldn't hear much, but I heard a really big bang and my mother yelling "OH SHIT." I came upstairs and smoke filled the front room. Turned out something had exploded and the TV worked no more. Was a great time.
Thanks for this great video! Everyone loves to show off their best accomplishments, but it's often just as interesting to see things that didn't work out. You really get to see someone's problem-solving skills and creativity through such a process. Looking forward to more of your video! (studio tour when?!)
i want to say i just absolutely. LOVE. all of your content. i have literally watched like, all of your tech videos. something about the way you talk and present stuff makes my brain so happy. it's SO cool that you even decided to make a video about failed stuff! it's all so interesting! and i am beyond happy that you include subtitles on your videos! they help me so much!
After having done a number of repairs that didn't end as expected, it shows honesty and authenticity when you show the good, bad and the ugly. And yeah, that black bezel in pieces that was too short was ugly.
The Mitsubishi TV was not made by a car company though. Mitsubishi Heavy Industry (original parent of Mitsubishi Motors) and Mitsubishi Electric have been separate companies since the post-WWII occupation.
Now so sure, the quality of a channel is dependent on the quality of the videos. If I watch a MattKC video, I know for a fact it'll be good as all of them are. If he stops making only good videos, I lose that confidence. I think it was a good call
Its actually pretty good to leave in errors you made or if the project fails. Bcs other people can learn from it & not make the same mistake you made. Micheal MJD actually preventend a capacitor blowing up bcs other people kept the errors they made in the video's he saw (from like the 8bit guy)
You could probably get replacement guts for the CRT. They're still made in China, since they're popular in south-east Asian countries. That's about all I know, though.
I love electronics but I wouldn't dream of removing or adding anything to the circuit board until I familiarise myself with it first. I would religiously map out the board & all of its components and to test them individually. When I've worked on something, it would be close, back to factory condition
My family used to have a 20-in Emerson flat panel CRT that's the same vertical collapse. Funnily enough, my mother continued to use the TV like that for about 3 months.
wait hang on... am I understanding this entirely wrong, is it just a joke that I don't get it, or did she really keep watching a single horizontal line of TV content for 3 months???????
Matt jokes about how a company that developed Shrek for the original Xbox made transformers for crts, TDK is an electronics manufacturer that even sold cassette tapes and had a subsidiary for game development that went defunct.
I have been there myself. I repaired a monitor. Plugged it in, turned it on. Lifted it up to see the screen working. All good working fine. Placed it back down on the desk… the earth wire to the frame which was off at this stage fell down to the board. It shorted it with a bang and tripped the safety switch on the house. Reset everything and the screen was totally dead.
Failures are the best, 2 days ago I failed fantastically, putting in an IPS screen for my gameboy color, I got everything in and it was working great except the touch sensor, I opened it back up and saw that the ribbon cable for the sensor had snapped. I desoldered the snapped end and when I did that I ended up lifting the solder pad, after searching around I found out that I could fashion a new touch sensor just using some kynar and copper tape and solder it on to a different part of the circuitry. My next course of action was to attempt this fix, as I was testing it before closing the shell up it was a success, but then due to butterfingers I dropped the new touch sensor onto the GBC motherboard and it immediately turned off and now will not turn back on.
man I love your video style and everything else man... Time to watch all your vids and make sure i see the nerdyness slowly rise lol. loved the vid keep em coming man.
I’m glad you weren’t shocked in the first mistake! I like this video, it’s just as interesting seeing the ones that didn’t work out as the ones that did
@@computer_dude Yes, I know you were talking about this part of the video. I suspect eh voices there are a reference to something? That's what I was asking about :)
4:40 holy shit something similar happened to me, i was trying to repair a monitor and it had a large capacitor on the power supply, which obviously I shorted everytime to not kill myself. While doing some testing i did the some stupid thing, i pressed the power button of the monitor to turn it off, and shorted the cap, but I didn't realize that the power button only cuts the power from the main PCB, not the power supply, so, the next thing i saw was a huge spark, i shorted 220v AC, since the cap just after the power cable. No need to say, i couldn't repair the monitor
I found a 2017 iMac in the garbage with a broken screen. Looked in the CPU socket, had a 7700k in it. RX 570 on board. Made $200+ dollars on the CPU and another 275$ on the logic board, PSU and casing. And luckily it didnt just end up in a landfill. Repairing Apple stuff is weird - even the older stuff in some ways..
Your videos are really relateable as i bought a non-functional keyboard 2008 pre-unibody Macbook Pro for around $95. I also bought a replacement keyboard for $20 and attempted to make the replacement according to ifixit guide. I ended up finshing the replacement but i broke the aluminum pins holding the keyboard top case in place and the brightness and backlight stopped working completely. :(
That's weird, I used to have a CRT I bought at a thrift store for the sole purpose of using it for my NES. It too was made by Mitsubishi and although it had a very bright and clear image for a while, I turned it on one day to see that it had the same vertical line problem. Maybe an issue with the hardware in Mitsubishi TVs from that time?
I've seen this place in the UK near Northampton it's called the retro computer museum and it's basically a place full of old retro game consoles and game consoles and some arcade machines like atari , xbox 360, Nintendo 64 pokemon edition and playstation 1 with all of them having a lot of games and they have 2 player 1 player 4 player games and it's just a generally cool place to look at.
that was the transformer driver for the vertical deflection (or something like that) they almost never fail, it's usually something before them that fail
I have a CRT very similar to that, I think the same size but it had RF and AV inputs, it is also a magnavox, not this one. And I also have 2 smaller CRT's, 1 magnavox, and 1 is a zenith. Edit: the nice thing about those CRT tv's from the 90's is you can get them for as low as 3$ at a thrift store. All 3 of my CRT's costed 15$ together.
I saw “mistakes were made” on the thumbnail and i thought this was a modern vintage gamer video
how the imac’s security was defeated with peanut butter
lol
Did Apple really forget to optimise the production process?
@@poble nah, obviously jelly
* How I ported an iOS exclusive game to PC...
Even if you are a failure, remember that there are people out there who genuinely get happy seeing your face and your projects ❤️ 😊
LMAO
lmao?
Cockichy Shitouma
Like me
Wait, kokichi saying nice things? Thats new
How Matt’s iMac G3’s bezel was defeated
im blind i read how Matt's iMac G3's Brazil was defeated
@@argonptg Brazil vs iMac G3
@@argonptg HOW
@@N-V_Plushie_Lover being from brazil, and having bad vision i guess?
@@argonptg that makes some sense.
That TDK block you looked at in the CRT is a transformer and it likely wasn't bad. Likely the corrosion you found led to trace damage which cut off something important in the vertical deflection circuit. The slow death you witnessed where it had intemittent momentary vertical collapse would further point to a trace corroding away.
i saw a capacitor that looked like it exploded on the board
@@nathanforsaken3248 which one is that?
@@nathanforsaken3248 Me too
Fellow matt- your content is consistently high-enough quality that if I see your name in the notif, I immediately watch it. One of the few channels I watch. Kudos. Have a good day sir
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Monetizing failure is a new form of genius.
I think it's probably an old form of genius. I remember buying products called "Cap'n Crunch Oops! All Berries" and (Product Name I Don't Remember) "Fun Shapes" (But when I opened the package it looked like a bunch of odd shapes and broken pieces.) I don't remember what the "Fun Shapes" product was (it was food of some sort), but I specifically remember thinking after opening the package: "Oh... clearly what happened here is someone at the factory pulled the wrong lever and a person in the marketing department was like: 'When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.'.".
@@Anthony_Marquis go outside
@@AlbaRust have you
@@vlc-cosplayer your story made my day😂🤣
@@Anthony_Marquis When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
Congrats on moving! Can’t wait to see what the studio will look like when done! Right now it looks like the exact opposite of my room.
Yo, the Nick Robinson PFP. Big respect.
@@titanderp why
Nice pfp
@@BeesUSA Nice pfp
@@lunahoshi2844 Nice pfp yourself bro
It's here! The MVG thumbnail! Okay, for real though, failed videos feel like a waste of time, but they can be compiled like this into their own thing! Loved this vid.
Did you mention James Mays favorite car ever? The Dacia Sandero?!
Is that capacitor-looking thing right below the transformer at 4:14 broken? It looks like the top's peeling off or something
And you can see it at 2:49 too
literally started shouting "What about that one?" when the 2:49 shot showed it. It looks completely blown out.
i have recently started watching your videos, i especially like the consoles running from batteries
Same
palm trees
I love the gameboy color running from batteries
Same; and even though it isn't his most popular video, I found it very entertaining and informative, and is my favorite one. I didn't have an NES; heck, we don't even have Nintendo here in India.
"no capacitors seemed to be obviously leaking" how funny to say that with one popped open right in the middle of the frame.
I'm glad to hear the old outro is back. Good video about how failing happens sometimes and that's ok.
That gunck was not leaked capacitor oil, it was just soldering flux left by the manufacturer, usually it is not conductive and does not prevent it from working.
You had to have unsoldered the part, and measured the board contacts without the part, as if it were shorted it would result in a low voltage reading. These CRTs are quite common to have bad contact in the welds due to the heat, you can check this simply by poking things with a piece of plastic or rubber and seeing if anything happens.
Bro I think I can help regarding the TV because I fixed two of these last week , one was a 14 inch TV and the other was a 1980 Sonodyne-Toshiba Colour TV (It was a very expensive TV of that time in India) so here is what was maybe wrong. First thing is to remove the vertical deflection chip entirely and then checking the voltages because the chip is prone to shorting on failing , which causes the voltage to drop , happened exactly in my case. If still the voltage is low , you should see a 25v 1000uf capacitor near the vertical ic , replace that one , and also replace the diode which goes from the transformer to the vertical ic. Now about the transformer , its probably okay , just has some burned traces but in case its dead , most CRT's have very similar boards so you should find one from a board which has near specs as your tv. If everything above fails , you can get CRT replacement boards for around 15-20 dollars ( they come without a RF port so you will need to buy an RF modulator alongside it ) and you can replace the original motherboards with those. If your crt has a thin neck , you need to buy a replacement thin neck board alongside which costs 1-2 dollars and replace it with the fat neck one on your replacement board. I'm definately sure you can make the CRT work again and hope you the best!!
3:53 If you hadn't broken the thing, here are some tips. The transformer may have gone bad but thats unlikely. There probably is a dead mosfet that is driving the transformer, and that dead mosfet looks to be the one on the bottom of the screen. But if the mosfet is fine then the mosfet driver is likely bad and not sending a voltage to the mosfet gate, but if that too is fine then the mosfet driver power supply is likely bad. BUT before all this, you should check if the vertical deflection chip is even operational. If VCC and GND is shorted in the chip, then the supply voltage will drop to like 0.1 to 0.5 volts. Or there are just some bad solder joints. BUT also the transformer probably isn't broken. The mosfet not designed to deal with a huge spike in current may have died and some kind of over current protection on the main PSU might of happened not letting the television turn on.
This was actually really interesting, I'm glad you were able to make a video out of these projects, even if they were fails.
I like how you didn't instantly say what went wrong. I was literally making up theories on what could've happened as the video was going, which kept this really interesting and fun to watch. :)
Its great to see someone talk about screw ups in repair. Its comforting. I remember pulling a working dell inspiron gaming computer from the trash that was my ticket to cheap gaming. After extracting it and having it still work, I screwed up at the last moment by plugging in the wrong laptop display to eDP port, apparently stopping it from booting again, rendering it a lost cause even after waiting for capacitors to discharge
Exactly, having failures is a good thing. You can't be like The Verge and try to pass off mistakes as the truth.
What I'm giving you MAJOR respect for is the fact that you credit the module musicians of the music you're using in the background. As a member of the scene, it's nice to get credit for our stuff when people use it, so thanks. Great video.
Really appreciate seeing the failures. Love your videos, and I myself run into so many of this sidetracks and obstacles in my own projects.
and you managed to turn all your failures into a success. this is a brilliant video that shows the wins/losses of repairs and some of the sometimes mundane stories that pop up along the way. I thoroughly enjoyed this one!
the rgb wall is fire tho
This is really cool, its awesome you paid homage to these wonderful ideas that wouldve never been shown!
This really makes me appreciate just how dedicated you are to repairing things, especially with that iMac at the end! The new studio is looking awesome by the way, I look forward to seeing what exciting stuff you get up to :D
man seeing the notification that you uploaded a new video put a smile on my face
I think it's great that you feel comfortable with sharing your past mistakes with us. It's interesting to see what goes down when things aren't to plan, as well as a helpful reminder that we're all just human at the end of the day. Nice one Matt, much love and support from the UK.
Watching the TV repair.. @2:48, in the middle of screen, there is a full open, exploded capacitor
No project is a failure if you learned something from it!
Enjoying your vids, which I've just discovered tonight. Very entertaining and the subject matter is right up my alley. Also, your Aussie sense of humor reminds me of Code Bullet, whose work I also enjoy a great deal!
I remember when we had an old CRT TV. I had the basement as my bedroom at the time so I couldn't hear much, but I heard a really big bang and my mother yelling "OH SHIT." I came upstairs and smoke filled the front room. Turned out something had exploded and the TV worked no more.
Was a great time.
Thanks for this great video!
Everyone loves to show off their best accomplishments, but it's often just as interesting to see things that didn't work out. You really get to see someone's problem-solving skills and creativity through such a process.
Looking forward to more of your video! (studio tour when?!)
revisiting that imac project would be so sick, i love that early 2000s design
I love the old school freddiew “stress level: zero” clip. Haven’t thought about that in ages.
i want to say i just absolutely. LOVE. all of your content. i have literally watched like, all of your tech videos. something about the way you talk and present stuff makes my brain so happy. it's SO cool that you even decided to make a video about failed stuff! it's all so interesting! and i am beyond happy that you include subtitles on your videos! they help me so much!
I forgot your channel existed for about 5 months now I get to binge your videos again😁
It is so weird, but Matt is one of the few UA-camrs i watch the videos over and over again. My favorite is the Lego Music one and QR-Code ^^
mate that iMac's bezel falling apart was hilarious
After having done a number of repairs that didn't end as expected, it shows honesty and authenticity when you show the good, bad and the ugly. And yeah, that black bezel in pieces that was too short was ugly.
SCRAPING AT IT WITH A SCREWDRIVER WHILE IT WAS PLUGGED IN OH MY GOD THIS IS A HORROR STORY
been binging your vids for two days now. love your xbox mods!
Just started binge watches your videos, and now you release a new one, 👍tyvm
“I’ve never seen an iMac in this bad condition before except for SmashSomeStuff’s iMac”
You should see Plainrock124
this is probably my favourite of the roughly 6 videos i've seen so far on your channel
I never thought a piece of plastic breaking would be so funny
Matt, if you're trying to combine multiple 3D prints together, you can just melt the edges together. :)
The Mitsubishi TV was not made by a car company though. Mitsubishi Heavy Industry (original parent of Mitsubishi Motors) and Mitsubishi Electric have been separate companies since the post-WWII occupation.
Source: Some Googling, and my dad who worked for Mitsubishi Electric in the 80s/90s.
13:47 lmfao, looks like the lightest tap ever managed to break it, the lesson here is social distance all your electronics
I expected this to start with the MVG song
OH MY GOD! Thank you for finally crediting the music you use!
I love seeing your videos no matter what happens in them
Great video man, wish you would've released that video on repairing the 2 imacs though. A project is a project regardless of how boring it is.
Now so sure, the quality of a channel is dependent on the quality of the videos. If I watch a MattKC video, I know for a fact it'll be good as all of them are. If he stops making only good videos, I lose that confidence. I think it was a good call
We all make mistakes, it's a learning curve. Every day is a school day. Thanks for sharing this. Always enjoy your videos....🙂
Its actually pretty good to leave in errors you made or if the project fails. Bcs other people can learn from it & not make the same mistake you made.
Micheal MJD actually preventend a capacitor blowing up bcs other people kept the errors they made in the video's he saw (from like the 8bit guy)
I've been rewatching your old vids over the last week or so! missed your content mate ❤️
I'm glad that you decided to make this video. I really enjoyed watching all of iMac repairs.
Dude I’m so hyped to watch this, great content you make!
Great content Matt , watched all of your channels videos in one day. Especially the repair and coding stuff.
Damn, that 2009 iMac hit me hard. I still have haunting memories to this day of how annoying working on that computer was
I honestly love this video I’ve watched it about 14 times now
context: i watch this because it entertaining and when I bored it good to watch
BUT YOU STILL GET TO SEE THE PALM TREES🤩 6:00
You could probably get replacement guts for the CRT. They're still made in China, since they're popular in south-east Asian countries. That's about all I know, though.
I love electronics but I wouldn't dream of removing or adding anything to the circuit board until I familiarise myself with it first. I would religiously map out the board & all of its components and to test them individually. When I've worked on something, it would be close, back to factory condition
My family used to have a 20-in Emerson flat panel CRT that's the same vertical collapse. Funnily enough, my mother continued to use the TV like that for about 3 months.
wait hang on... am I understanding this entirely wrong, is it just a joke that I don't get it, or did she really keep watching a single horizontal line of TV content for 3 months???????
@@Kalvinjj I guess it was probably about 20 lines, but yes.
Matt jokes about how a company that developed Shrek for the original Xbox made transformers for crts, TDK is an electronics manufacturer that even sold cassette tapes and had a subsidiary for game development that went defunct.
I have been there myself. I repaired a monitor. Plugged it in, turned it on. Lifted it up to see the screen working. All good working fine. Placed it back down on the desk… the earth wire to the frame which was off at this stage fell down to the board. It shorted it with a bang and tripped the safety switch on the house. Reset everything and the screen was totally dead.
Failures are the best, 2 days ago I failed fantastically, putting in an IPS screen for my gameboy color, I got everything in and it was working great except the touch sensor, I opened it back up and saw that the ribbon cable for the sensor had snapped.
I desoldered the snapped end and when I did that I ended up lifting the solder pad, after searching around I found out that I could fashion a new touch sensor just using some kynar and copper tape and solder it on to a different part of the circuitry.
My next course of action was to attempt this fix, as I was testing it before closing the shell up it was a success, but then due to butterfingers I dropped the new touch sensor onto the GBC motherboard and it immediately turned off and now will not turn back on.
Hell yeah new mattKC video
These were so cool when they came out. I was in middle school in the late 90s I can barely remember them in high school in the 2000’s
man I love your video style and everything else man... Time to watch all your vids and make sure i see the nerdyness slowly rise lol. loved the vid keep em coming man.
I love stuff like this. I find this almost more interesting than the standard content
What I always take from your videos is that I should listen more often to the chiptune mix playlists.
I’m glad you weren’t shocked in the first mistake! I like this video, it’s just as interesting seeing the ones that didn’t work out as the ones that did
I see the DK voiceover outro came back! I was missing it.
Where does that come from? I don't know what it is :)
@@unfa00 16:15
@@computer_dude Yes, I know you were talking about this part of the video. I suspect eh voices there are a reference to something? That's what I was asking about :)
@@unfa00 Oh, the voices are just a remix of the "DK Rap" video.
As a kid we used our old G3 as a Myst machine! Its great to play on the old flickery CRT
Listen man, we all love your videos, even if you fail. The content and narration are such quality. Post it all!
4:40 holy shit something similar happened to me, i was trying to repair a monitor and it had a large capacitor on the power supply, which obviously I shorted everytime to not kill myself. While doing some testing i did the some stupid thing, i pressed the power button of the monitor to turn it off, and shorted the cap, but I didn't realize that the power button only cuts the power from the main PCB, not the power supply, so, the next thing i saw was a huge spark, i shorted 220v AC, since the cap just after the power cable. No need to say, i couldn't repair the monitor
i saw failed projects and thought this was a krazy ken tech misadventures video
You are good! One of the best out there! Understand what is good to watch and what not.
I found a 2017 iMac in the garbage with a broken screen. Looked in the CPU socket, had a 7700k in it. RX 570 on board. Made $200+ dollars on the CPU and another 275$ on the logic board, PSU and casing. And luckily it didnt just end up in a landfill. Repairing Apple stuff is weird - even the older stuff in some ways..
Man I still can't thank that QR video enough for bringing me here. I love this channel! :)
Would love to see more of these.
Maybe a year ending video of the past years mistakes.
it's like a mattkc video but with even more random things in them!
it's like christmas!
You managed to make a fascinating video out of these failed videos. Great job! Thank you for another entertaining video.
ive made the same mistake if not disconnecting the power once. those sparks flying really do scare the sh*t out of you
Your videos are really relateable as i bought a non-functional keyboard 2008 pre-unibody Macbook Pro for around $95. I also bought a replacement keyboard for $20 and attempted to make the replacement according to ifixit guide. I ended up finshing the replacement but i broke the aluminum pins holding the keyboard top case in place and the brightness and backlight stopped working completely. :(
Success is the peak of a mountain named failure. Great video! Keep it up!
The Irat Gamer has grown patience back in the day he wouldn't even check which way up an N64 was supposed to be
if you can, you should try some of these projects again. i would really have enjoyed a complete restoration of the imac g3.
That's weird, I used to have a CRT I bought at a thrift store for the sole purpose of using it for my NES. It too was made by Mitsubishi and although it had a very bright and clear image for a while, I turned it on one day to see that it had the same vertical line problem. Maybe an issue with the hardware in Mitsubishi TVs from that time?
R.I.P Mitsubishi TV
You will not be forgotten!
I already like the new studio. Good luck for the future
I've seen this place in the UK near Northampton it's called the retro computer museum and it's basically a place full of old retro game consoles and game consoles and some arcade machines like atari , xbox 360, Nintendo 64 pokemon edition and playstation 1 with all of them having a lot of games and they have 2 player 1 player 4 player games and it's just a generally cool place to look at.
i've been there and it's just game consoles and not many pcs (at least not that you can turn on) it's pretty disappointing if i'm being honest
Damn. Matt recognized the existence of a bad Romanian car company. Well done, Matt! Love from Romania
YES , even a tiny component can be a real show stopper
Your channel has grown alot since the last time I saw you
Do more videos like this. I loved it
im happy to see you uploading somewhat frequently, really does make me happy :D
that was the transformer driver for the vertical deflection (or something like that) they almost never fail, it's usually something before them that fail
At 11:00 I was so sure you'd try to fix it with instant noodles...I've definitely consumed way too much internet
I have a CRT very similar to that, I think the same size but it had RF and AV inputs, it is also a magnavox, not this one. And I also have 2 smaller CRT's, 1 magnavox, and 1 is a zenith. Edit: the nice thing about those CRT tv's from the 90's is you can get them for as low as 3$ at a thrift store. All 3 of my CRT's costed 15$ together.