Glad the package arrived finally! Just noticed the video on my YT feed. Thanks for the feedback on my soldering job :D Too bad you haven't managed to get it working - one thing I can suggest is perhaps try it with different screen/console? mClassic even when I got it brand new, I had plenty of problems with getting it to show anything on screen sometimes with some consoles (primarily PlayStation 3) - usually replugging the HDMI cable when console was running fixed it - some weird shenanigans with handshake I assume? Not sure. Hope you enjoyed the candies!
this thing hooks up only one way and im pretty sure he is hooking it up backwards. the red part is supposed to go to your monitor and the male HDMI plug goes into the console.
@@MartinMull13 And as you can clearly see at 19:07, it is connected correctly. The mClassic itself even indicates it, with 'Source' being where the console should be and is connected.
"I did not expect this to work"... the mating call of electronic repairs. Well done, mate. Much love! Edit: I was too hasty. Still very enjoyable to watch.
Dont matter if you didn't fix it or fixed it work.. still enjoy watching your all videos. Enjoy your great sense of humor and great repairs video as well
I appreciate you acknowledging that 27 degrees is hot for your area but not hot for many others. My area is routinely 35-40 degrees on a hot day which makes it top 10 hottest cities in US.
Just finished fixing my Game Boy Advance SP that had a very dirty power switch and I grew a lot of respect for this type of work. Goddamn that stupid little piece that won't solder properly. It took me almost 1 hour to clean the damn thing and it's only one tiny metal piece. So yeah, I envy your patience, keep the great work.
I just found your channel and I ALMOST made a mistake by skipping the donation section, but it is a nice rap with the names well done, i am excited to see more :) wishing you the best
Give it another blast of heat, if it works again try changing the crystal. I had a USB arcade joystick and button controller board that only worked when heated once. On a whim I changed the 16MHZ crystal. It's working great ever since. Love the videos by the way.
Love how you tackle these repairs with such humor, Steve! 😂 It's like a tech comedy show sometimes. Also, agree with the board holder idea, def helps with those wobbly moments! Hope Piotr has more goodies for you next time! 🍫🔧
I actually love the mClassic. I use it in conjunction with my EON GCHD GameCube HDMI adaptor. Definitely helps clean up the image on a modern television.
@@rustynail1194 Google Gamecube Carby. It's a much better more affordable option and will work great with the Mclassic. Also you can get an EDID emulator that will force the Mclassic to 1440p if your monitor can handle it.
Dude, watching your videos, made me buy a multimiter the other day. It was great being able to test the voltage of batteries, now I'm going to try an electrocute...? sorry I meant, fix something. It's an interesting hobby, I just need to break something, easy, first.
Oh god no real fix but I'm so happy you tried Steve. Learning is hard. But hey I like your covers of popular music. Your originals are not bad either, a bit more prod! Says the guy who do nothing with music.
I am 99% sure the little square things are Filters, and a way to test if they broken is to check is the diagonals are shorted, is they are, it's broken If the case is metal, maybe it's shorting to the case..
At 5:10 looks like a solder bridge between two pins on the HDMI connector??? Could be intermittent - I have an oscilloscope which developed a dead channel after ** 30 years ** which turned out to be a tiny solder whisker standing up off the board which had taken that long to finally bend over and shorted something out. Had been there since new and took that long to happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sometimes I watch your channel and I wax existential. I think of how our ancestors crawled out of the sea at some point and ended up going into the trees and coming down again. Then I think of how I am writing this on a device made with components from all over the world in a language that is not my own, communicating my thoughts to people I will never see in person who also understand a language that may not be their own. I also consider how we have one thing in common: watching this man tinker with items that our species at some point invented and created from scratch. .... yeah I don't enjoy being me a lot either/
28c would be a nice cool day lol I would love to live in the UK. Especially if it rains as much as I hear about. It's been almost 41c here for 2 months straight :(
When the video started working after the re-flow I was willing to bet money it's not gonna last. I remember that era when everyone but granny was shoving their dead gpus into ovens in the hope of resurrecting them, and surprisingly quite a lot did... for a short while. Heat does that sometimes to dead chips. Unfortunately it never lasts, and unless you have strong reasons to suspect corrosion, re-flowing is generally wasted effort. You stumbled into confirming the main chip was the culprit, and now it's dead for good. To the recycler this goes.
@13:34 the 2kOhm resistor to ground is probably a pull down resistor. So yeah, it’s totally fine for some resistors to be shorted to ground on one side.
You need to add another well-deserved 4000 subs to your counter! [Spoiler alert space inserted here] Aww that was a rollercoaster of emotions there! I really thought “nah, that’s not gonna get fixed, hot-air the hell out of it for luck and then give up if the magic heat doesn’t fix it” And then it worked! You have the magic touch! Gods of electronic repair: “Oops, sorry, wrong number, gonna need to take back that magic touch, soz” I think sometimes it’s harder to walk away and say “I tried” than it is to keep going until you get down about it or go insane, so well done mate. And well done for not doing what I suspect some people do and cut the video after it stopped working haha.
Yeah, this one was a rollercoaster, that's for darn sure. I went back to it a couple of days later, 'cos it was driving me mad that it worked for a bit, but alas, those electronic repair gods would not let me replicate the success 😢
@@PITAProductionsIt's an image upscaler, only needed if you have a pretty large TV or a high-definition monitor and you want a smoother-looking image.
@@hmartinlb They do. Some upscale better than others, and some introduce a bunch of latency. Depends on the TV manufacturer and the upscale algorithms/chips they use. This basically just does the work for the TV, so that the TV itself doesn't introduce more latency.
Glad the package arrived finally! Just noticed the video on my YT feed. Thanks for the feedback on my soldering job :D
Too bad you haven't managed to get it working - one thing I can suggest is perhaps try it with different screen/console? mClassic even when I got it brand new, I had plenty of problems with getting it to show anything on screen sometimes with some consoles (primarily PlayStation 3) - usually replugging the HDMI cable when console was running fixed it - some weird shenanigans with handshake I assume? Not sure.
Hope you enjoyed the candies!
this thing hooks up only one way and im pretty sure he is hooking it up backwards. the red part is supposed to go to your monitor and the male HDMI plug goes into the console.
@@MartinMull13 And as you can clearly see at 19:07, it is connected correctly. The mClassic itself even indicates it, with 'Source' being where the console should be and is connected.
Don't worry Steve, we still love you.
This is such a spoiler alert don't ever do that again
@@behroz17just don't read comments before watching a video
"I did not expect this to work"... the mating call of electronic repairs. Well done, mate. Much love!
Edit: I was too hasty. Still very enjoyable to watch.
It's ok Steve, I'm mainly here for your song at the end of each video
Dont matter if you didn't fix it or fixed it work.. still enjoy watching your all videos. Enjoy your great sense of humor and great repairs video as well
That chip was ENA Zero, a series made by Sanyo.
i thought they had 6 contacts on them these only have 4
@@peterparker5077eastern European tax took 2 legs
@@peterparker5077 yeah, looks like it's a bipolar transistor but I'm not sure.
Some you win some you lose, great video, I'm UK based and electronics engineer. Stuff goes in the bin, that's life.
"Those balls look ok there." Oh my, thanks for noticing , Steve ! XD
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@jeffcook3747 Steve tells no lies, those were some mighty fine balls.
I appreciate you acknowledging that 27 degrees is hot for your area but not hot for many others. My area is routinely 35-40 degrees on a hot day which makes it top 10 hottest cities in US.
Greetings from POLAND to both of you! :)
Just finished fixing my Game Boy Advance SP that had a very dirty power switch and I grew a lot of respect for this type of work. Goddamn that stupid little piece that won't solder properly. It took me almost 1 hour to clean the damn thing and it's only one tiny metal piece. So yeah, I envy your patience, keep the great work.
I just found your channel and I ALMOST made a mistake by skipping the donation section, but it is a nice rap with the names well done, i am excited to see more :) wishing you the best
I wish you many more of his vids. They are great !
This trade is a true embodiment of a man is only as good as his tools
Give it another blast of heat, if it works again try changing the crystal. I had a USB arcade joystick and button controller board that only worked when heated once. On a whim I changed the 16MHZ crystal. It's working great ever since. Love the videos by the way.
What Steve you are making us all feel better! You are one of us after all 😇
Good to see you Steve! Great vid mate!
@stezfix those 2 little square ICs are LDO voltage regulators. They are also in Xbox contollers - TLV70718.
Pozdrowienia z Polski dla Piotra
Love how you tackle these repairs with such humor, Steve! 😂 It's like a tech comedy show sometimes. Also, agree with the board holder idea, def helps with those wobbly moments! Hope Piotr has more goodies for you next time! 🍫🔧
Great fix!!! (spoke too soon lol) - Need to watch to the end I think! Even greater choice in T-Shirt =D
You got me every time with that " FADE "
Nice vid Steve. I send to you positive energy! Hi from Albacete, Spain!
Intermission was great 👍
I actually love the mClassic. I use it in conjunction with my EON GCHD GameCube HDMI adaptor. Definitely helps clean up the image on a modern television.
Ooo I'll look into that. Where did you get the HDMI adapter?
@@rustynail1194 Google Gamecube Carby. It's a much better more affordable option and will work great with the Mclassic. Also you can get an EDID emulator that will force the Mclassic to 1440p if your monitor can handle it.
I use the mClassic with the PhotoFast 4K. It works great.
You content is really......solid
Ill see myself out
Close the door behind you
You can't win 'em all. At least you show your fails, so good on you. Bit of a shame nothing could be learned from this one either.
I love that it’s hot at 28 degrees there in summer. Still winter here in Oz 🇦🇺 and it’s 34 degrees today. 🥵
You might be in North Queensland or WA. Here in southern Queensland today it will be a lovely 30c.
Nah mate, just outside Gatton, Qld
Love the Holy Grail intermission Steve😂 keep up the great vids pal 👍
Welcome Back Uncle Steve.
AMAZING 🎉😊❤❤ works one instant and not the next 🤔🤔🤔😤
Watched all your videos now, bring on the next content!
Great video as always but couldn't understand what the device was supposed to do .
Dude, watching your videos, made me buy a multimiter the other day. It was great being able to test the voltage of batteries, now I'm going to try an electrocute...? sorry I meant, fix something. It's an interesting hobby, I just need to break something, easy, first.
Watching from Poland 🔥
Loving the My Mate Vince top. 👍
I thought I’m the only one viewer from Poland 😄🇵🇱
Nonsens, there are plenty of us here 😎
Love your videos! I miss the quiet moments when you speed up the video do the tedious tests and things!
Gordon the Gopher pop up never fails to make me chuckle.
at 5:16 there is a SOLDER BRIDGE on the USB connection pins 5 and 6
I think that's probably just solder that got on the metal port itself
@@TalmiiorFixesStuffyeah it’s just some solder at the top of the connector, it’s not on the same plane as the pins
it think it is shorting the case to pin 6 at least.
It could be under it too. Worth investigating
arent data pins bridged on some boards to allow more amperage (pre usb-pd)
Nice, greets from Poland
Ale skisłem z Draży Korsarzy! 🤣
00:16 - ❤
Love your shirt!
EE Mark on a SMD can be a SOT-343R RP130Q521A Ricoh Linear Voltage Regulator
SOT-343R is a drastically different SMD package.
I think you need a board holder. When you were nudging the chip the whole board was moving.
Unlucky Steve I’m sure there’s going to be a revisit 😊
The snack with The pirate on it, try it, it's amazing. Coconut bits covered in chocolate
when you looked beneath the big chip it looked like a small crack on the side of it. Could just have been dirt as well but it stood out too me ^^
I thought that it looked like a crack also, glad to see someone else thought so too!
Oh god no real fix but I'm so happy you tried Steve. Learning is hard. But hey I like your covers of popular music. Your originals are not bad either, a bit more prod! Says the guy who do nothing with music.
It may be the crystal, working fine with heat and then going back to failing once cooled, worth a try ....
I am 99% sure the little square things are Filters, and a way to test if they broken is to check is the diagonals are shorted, is they are, it's broken
If the case is metal, maybe it's shorting to the case..
I was thinking filter too.
I am thinking the same thing, pretty sure it's a filter, especially considering pretty much the entire circuit is dedicated to video and HDMI output
i dont think the filters used for hdmi on other consoles get ground tho?
Yeah, seen them on consoles a bunch. Definitely HDMI Filters. Was about to say this
Yea they look like baluns.
great video once again. what portable monitor were u using in this video please thanks
At 5:10 looks like a solder bridge between two pins on the HDMI connector??? Could be intermittent - I have an oscilloscope which developed a dead channel after ** 30 years ** which turned out to be a tiny solder whisker standing up off the board which had taken that long to finally bend over and shorted something out. Had been there since new and took that long to happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Steve!! What cable are you using to connect the Switch to the monitor? Thank you so much for your content!!!
2:44 I have missed you. In a very non-creepy way, of course….saved it 😂
No you didn't butcher Piotr roughly translated Peter!
Why roughly? It's literally the Polish version of the name Peter, am I wrong?
pronunciation wise, he did 😆
@@Peter_A1466 he did not wdym?
@@Jaszczursky_ I mean he did...
Oh, you got Korsarze candy, you lucky bastard!
I've always wanted one of them
Sometimes I watch your channel and I wax existential. I think of how our ancestors crawled out of the sea at some point and ended up going into the trees and coming down again. Then I think of how I am writing this on a device made with components from all over the world in a language that is not my own, communicating my thoughts to people I will never see in person who also understand a language that may not be their own. I also consider how we have one thing in common: watching this man tinker with items that our species at some point invented and created from scratch.
.... yeah I don't enjoy being me a lot either/
came for the rap, stayed for the poking about with electronics
Skip? Not with that sweet Patreon old school rap slow jam
Nice Python intermission.
28c would be a nice cool day lol I would love to live in the UK. Especially if it rains as much as I hear about. It's been almost 41c here for 2 months straight :(
And where is here?
@@Vandebilt Texas in the US
Polish Chocolate is good, yum!
When the video started working after the re-flow I was willing to bet money it's not gonna last. I remember that era when everyone but granny was shoving their dead gpus into ovens in the hope of resurrecting them, and surprisingly quite a lot did... for a short while. Heat does that sometimes to dead chips. Unfortunately it never lasts, and unless you have strong reasons to suspect corrosion, re-flowing is generally wasted effort. You stumbled into confirming the main chip was the culprit, and now it's dead for good. To the recycler this goes.
5:17 is that a solder bridge on top of the socket 5 and 6 possibly to the shield
Missed you Steve!
I use 2 of them for PlayStation classic and this make big difference looks
Well done !
Mclassic is a good little device, alittle over priced, bit I like the one I have, and I also like the photofast gamer+ I own
@13:34 the 2kOhm resistor to ground is probably a pull down resistor. So yeah, it’s totally fine for some resistors to be shorted to ground on one side.
@StezStixFix you might wanna reconsider your room ventilation. or is that a humidifier at 9:20 ?
can win them all steve
No review of the chocolate ?
Shocking !!!
Snatching a fail from the jaws of victory is an achievement of some sort.
Steve probably can't review it until it has cooled down; otherwise it will affect the melted plastic count! (LOL).🤣
Steve back from vacation!
The reflow master
You should get a multimeter that chirps on a diode junction and beeps on a short (in diode mode)
13:07 Yes, it would be normal for a resistor to be shorted to VCC or ground if it was a pull-up or pull-down resistor respectively.
My mate Vince tee!
We have the power!
Had no idea you where a local :) ....
Ever go on the toughsheet wednesday car boot ? Been decent for old retro electronics :)
519 is the timeline you can see the two data lines bridged with solder right at the scene where it connects to the board
I guess the aluminium cases forces the board to flex and cracks some microsoldering maybe even under that chip.
Pozdro Piotr
You need to add another well-deserved 4000 subs to your counter!
[Spoiler alert space inserted here]
Aww that was a rollercoaster of emotions there! I really thought “nah, that’s not gonna get fixed, hot-air the hell out of it for luck and then give up if the magic heat doesn’t fix it”
And then it worked! You have the magic touch!
Gods of electronic repair:
“Oops, sorry, wrong number, gonna need to take back that magic touch, soz”
I think sometimes it’s harder to walk away and say “I tried” than it is to keep going until you get down about it or go insane, so well done mate.
And well done for not doing what I suspect some people do and cut the video after it stopped working haha.
Yeah, this one was a rollercoaster, that's for darn sure. I went back to it a couple of days later, 'cos it was driving me mad that it worked for a bit, but alas, those electronic repair gods would not let me replicate the success 😢
Fully reballing. Reflow is not for long. Maybe the connection is lose again?
He sent chocolates!
how very *"sweet"* of him eh?
@@EslamNawito 🥁
Hey Steve, just wanted to drop by and let you know that I'm really happy you never uploaded another electric bike ad :)
Could it be a damaged pin inside a HDMI port? I can't remember seeing you check?
@ 5:16, There appears to be a solder bridge between pins 5 & 6?
Oh hell yes Draże Korsarze, just had them 5 minutes ago lol 😂
I've got one of those!! So expensive for what it actually does!
I've still no idea what it actually does....
@@PITAProductionsIt's an image upscaler, only needed if you have a pretty large TV or a high-definition monitor and you want a smoother-looking image.
@@javier.villatorothanks - I wasn’t sure either.
@@javier.villatoro Don't all (almost?) monitors /TVs have upscalers? Or is that a thing of the past?
@@hmartinlb They do. Some upscale better than others, and some introduce a bunch of latency. Depends on the TV manufacturer and the upscale algorithms/chips they use. This basically just does the work for the TV, so that the TV itself doesn't introduce more latency.
you should check if the heat still going
It’s projected to be 97 degrees (36• Celsius) here in Indiana, USA Today.
Hi Steve, BGA chipsets which heat up too much and "pure" tin soldering don't go well together in long term ; I wonder if this is not the problem... 🤨
Get in contact with the company that makes them and have a chat with them.
Green light, now all i can see is squid games with ste's face on that giant doll 😂
Редкая штука. Что думаешь делать дальше,приятель, накатать новые шары на чип?
Pineapple margarita, now Stez?! What is it, my birthday?
Yourvthe best
Nice try mate, you will get the next one!