How to Bypass Missing & Broken Solder Pads
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- We've all done it - Roasted a pad a bit too long with a solder iron. But losing a solder pad on a PCB doesn't usually mean GAME OVER. You've got options to get around it! In this video I show you just one of a few.
00:00 Introduction
00:34 Overview
01:32 Tutorial
04:55 Conclusion
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I know this might sound stupid, but it would have been super useful to see you measuring the cap with the multimeter to check that your repair had worked. I know how to test for continuity and for voltage readings, but I have no idea with testing caps. But regardless, a great video.
Good thought - Basically in the video I mostly was checking for a short to ground. It's not quite what this repair called for, that footnote about it, but I left the footage in mostly to show how things... "looked" now, more or less.
Here's some capacitor troubleshooting tips I took from another of my replies to a comment on this video:
Sometimes you need to take the capacitor off to fully test. But a simple test you can do is to put your meter in continuity mode and probe either side of the cap on the board. This won't necessarily tell you if that cap is bad, but it will let you know if there is a short to ground somewhere that you need to find. To fully test a capacitor though, for a short, if it's open (also a failure), or for the proper capacitance, you need to remove it from the board first. Also, you can get bad readings from testing any component while it is on a board still, resistors especially, so it's always best to remove them if you're not sure.
Cheers, and I hope this helps! 🙂👍🏻
@@KyleAwsm Definitely, I appreciate that testing caps and points could be a whole separate video in itself, I just wondered what it was you were testing to ascertain there were no further issues, but you've cleared that up. Many thanks.
THANK YOU for actually mentioning proper temperatures for soldering! I've been trying to educate myself on how-to's for soldering [with the intent of game console repairs) and so many videos just go "yup, turn on the iron, tin, and go" but for someone totally new to the process, knowing estimated temperatures to start from will not only extend the life of the tool/machine but possibly prevents early frustration/mistakes in the learning process and ACCIDENTS.
I can’t believe that I was searching “how to fix SMD pad” and you just made a video on how to fix EXACTLY the same board I’m working on and EXACTLY the capacitor same pad that broke on me. Haha! But in my case, both pads broke cause of oxidation. Thanks for the video!
I literally destroyed that same pad on my gbc removing the capacitor to bypass it for an amp mod and this video could not have been more helpful! Saved me a ton of time and stress and I learned a couple of valuable lessons. Thank you!
Very informative and helpful video Kyle, I’m sure lots of people will really appreciate this one. 👍🏻
Can't say "thank you" enough for your smart move! That helped fixing my Super Famicom (SNES) that the surface mount of a video SMD capacitor was broken! Thank you!
Wow, the perfect video to answer all my questions how to repair a pad. Thank you.
I found this video by looking up how to repair circuit board pads , and coincidentally the C38 on Gameboy color is what I need to repair , awesome video
Thanks for this video, was installing a new wire for my thinkpad charger and messed up the terminals with too much heat (i prefer replacing the wires on original laptop chargers instead of gambling with a potential knock off).
This video is a life saver
Only guy out there teaching this out there! Thanks you sir.
Thanks for the tip at the end. I had no idea 325C was a bit high. I should experiment with soldering at 200C.
This is the exact problem I was having on my gbc. The smallest capacity pad came off. Now I have better idea how to continue. Thanks!
Thanks for your video, I manage to fix my GBA with your tips. Cheers
THANKYOU SO MUCH! With this i was finally able to repair a dead copy of pokemon red
Thank you so much 🙏. I’m building a neopixel lightsaber. And I burnt off one of the solder pads on the switch pcb. I was stressing over what to do until I saw this video.
Thank you so much its really helpful for me
Good job! I would definitely need a microscope for something like this lol.
Cool video, well done, thank you for sharing it with us :)
Way of making understand
Amazing
Nice keep working we will cross million
Good job🎉
Hopefully this works! I have an fpv drone remote transmitter that i accidently dropped and busted out the micro usb plug. I lost two of the 5 traces and I managed to scratch away the green film and found the copper. Now I'll try to Soder it tomorrow!
Great video!! Is there a chance that you do a video on how to repair a broken solder pad on the power switch of a gameboy color? Damaged them and i cant repair them. Thanks for the video!
Although this wont help me in my case, this was an excellent intro to fixing something like this.
Great intro
FPV drones
Cetus Pro kit
Tattu 1s batteries
This hobby will become an obsession for you if you like stuff like this. Thanks for your help man.
I’m flying an IFlight Nazgul v3
I was using 400f and a solder pad came off. I wasn't even on it long. But this is helpful..thanks!
Thank you 🙏👍
Good job.
Good job, i had to do this exact thing yesterday whie repairing the LB on an xbox one controller. the pad lifted with my desoldering gun. So annoying
I have a gbc board that I burnt a trace doing a freckle shack in an now I'm pretty sure I'll be able to fix it!
It is also worth noting that in some cases, you can solder a small wire in place of a trace. If you follow the trace back to its source. You can solder a small wire to the source solder point, and the other end of the wire to the part that needs soldered
But wouldn’t the capacitor look awkward being solder on top of the wire?
@MajinGouken 99% of electronics are covered and unexposed. Besides, I'd rather have something look a little awkward I'd it means it still works and I don't have to buy another part
Good video bro
Thank you
At 3:00, when you say “expose a bit more of the trace,” how did you know where to scrape? I thought the trace was that little strip of copper that you exposed earlier in the video. It looks like you reached the end of the trace (at the edge of that green box just to the right of the plus symbol). Hopefully my question makes sense. I’m just wondering how you knew it would work to scrape away material in that open space southeast of the plus symbol. Thank you for your help
Thanks for posting. The flux under the device is pretty much stuck under the device. I believe the flux is corrosive. Would it not have been better to apply less flux to the pads with, say a toothpick?
thank you a lot
Great video, it's hard for beginners, but not impossible. Just let us know how you detected the faulty cap. , is it a common problem for GB boards? Sorry to ask, I'm kinda new to some repairs.
Hi, and thanks! Yup, it can be common on these boards, and depending on the shape they're in sometimes. Sometimes you need to take the capacitor off to fully test. But a simple test you can do is to put your meter in continuity mode and probe either side of the cap on the board. This won't necessarily tell you if that cap is bad, but it will let you know if there is a short to ground somewhere that you need to find. To fully test a capacitor though, for a short, if it's open (also a failure), or for the proper capacitance, you need to remove it from the board first. Also, you can get bad readings from testing any component whole it is on a board still, resistors especially, so it's always best to remove them if you're not sure. Cheers! Hope this helps! 🙂👍🏻
You know about the dsi d-pad and motherboard part. The red and black wires. Do you know how to clean that part if it gets burned? Kinda having issues soldering the wires to those pins and one of them just won't stick. Any help will be great.
Would you also be able to use copper tape on the missing pad?
.. nice sharing 😇🤗
I have the same problem but I lost the negative side of the trace pad. Where does the copper trace lead away from the negative side ?
two questions:
1) how do you know where the trace is to be exposed with the grinding method?
2) could you have put solder where the old pad was on the left and solder back the capacitor on top of it?
#2 no chance, the solder would have nowhere to adhere to, the silicone wafer board is just meant to hold the copper traces in place. He could have just used a jumper wire, but in this case he had plenty of space to rotate the cap. However, most times you don't have this much space to work with.
bruh, I just had a surface pad pop off of a hyper module and the only thing it left me is some micro piece of wire. No trace to scrape. (The trace might have been on the back of the board) and was able to bridge it with a glob of solder that some how miracled on to that little wire stub. and grabbed on to the cap lead. Seriously, what I did doesnt even qualify as a level1 solder, but it worked and now my hypermodule caps are replaced and it works. I pushed to hard trying to unsolder old PCB.
So i can ask , whether we can paste the new pad on the PCB ? Maybe this sound stupid , but i see if we do it see so ugly , Please sp
If I still have the pad, can I put it back on somehow? Glue a good option?
Hi Kyle! I have a question, I have the exact same area with a broken pad. Currently I don’t have sound in my gbc speakers. Did you restore the sound on your board after re attaching?
I checked the speakers and the connection they seem fine and the headphone jack also has continuity. So I’m kind of stuck on what else I could do except the resoldering of the capacitor. Thanks in advance!
C38 is a filtering capacitor for the audio, so it could be part of the issue with no sound. Also check for continuity between pins 4 and 5 on the headphone jack though when no headphones are plugged-in. If there's no continuity, that contact is dirty and needs to be cleaned. Replace C38 and clean that contact and it should likely fix your sound problem. For further help with this, feel free to contact me via Instagram. Cheers!
KyleAwsm Thanks so much! I’ll give it a go. I’ve been working on this project for about a month now but never figured out how to bypass the pad. The video and your response really taught me something new. I’ll take you up on your offer and dm if I run into other problems. Definitely subbed to your channel!
Can you make a video of this process on a gba cart?
Can I do this only to a metal pad? No a capacitor. I want to connect a mini wire to the metal pad.
Do you have any videos on doing this on a 3ds or ds? I ripped the solder pad off the touch screen connector when trying to replacing it. Any tips?
Reach out to me on Instagram and send me some pics and we can see what can be done. 👍🏻 www.kyleawsm.com
Only 400 likes for a pro video like this?
Show some love for Kyle Awesome!
Solder to the trace makes sense but what do you do when you rip off the pad for an ic chip that has like 30 different legs all around four edges and the square pad ripped off?
You get some small gauge wire, a microscope, and practice a LOT first, and then you solder directly to the IC. 👍🏻
I just got a Gbc from ebay and it seems like c37 is missing i don't know what to do I have not much experience in soldering I don't even know if I can find a c37 online 😭
My zl and zr got broken with the same problem can you help me with that
how would this be done on the A & B buttons if they needed to be fixed?
Send me a message with pictures on my Instagram and I'll see what we can do. If the pads are gone, you'll need to get a bit crafty with some solder, a thin copper sheet, and some PCB epoxy. www.kyleawsm.com
Video marker 4:24
I take a quick measurement across the capacitor just to make sure everything is KOSHER. Hahaha. We need a Rabbi to bless the circuit.
"This cap tastes like pickles...." 😂
I broke a solder stick on my wavebird c stick board and don’t know how to fix it
How would you do it on a GBC cartridge that the save battery solder pad came off?
Just saw your Instagram message - Talk to you on there! 👍🏻
Couldn't you scrape the pad instead?
Can this repair be done to a solder pad by the power switch on a Gameboy advance motherboard
Yes, but for that scenario I recommend instead following that trace back to where it connects to and soldering to that instead.
Ok so I shouldn't try to solder the ripped off piece back on just solder to the trace on the board thank you
i accidentally ripped the eject button/power button connector in my xbox and hopefully this video translates to that because a replacement motherboard costs around 400$
Im starting soldering now, Im 16 and I dont know how tf this works.
I literally ripped some pads off of an A1474 Lightning port connector and I also cant solder normal wires together nicely.
how fix hole pad ??
5:30 what are those temperatures in C ?
Sn63/pb37: 183C melting work between 230 to 330
This pads with what have been glued
you dont need flux. i been soldering for 15 years without. when i do try it i notice it doenst do anything other than get the board messy.
heat transfers perfectly fine without it. you just need to know how to use your tools properly.
When i watch these missing pad repair videos i always think they're going to show you how to stick on a new pad to the pcb then solder to it,but they never do?
I think i watched a mr solderfix video where he replaced the pad with one from a spare board.
5:10 Iron Heat - 400 - 600 F
Yeah but how'd you know where the trace was. I couldn't see it in this video. Tribal knowledge?
Ok bro in my case there are no track what's now
Message me pictures on Instagram @kyleawsm and I'll see how I can help. 👍🏻
Hi Kyle, nice video! Except for...
you made it seem like you were going in depth on this topic. You really got me hyping for a video of 6 minutes that show you replacing a cap on a GBC by fixing a small "simple" trace on a blurry microscope.
Take your time, show us more then this. CZcams is full of these video's with 6 minutes of explanation.
and..... don't over-use the Premieres, you have 5.8K subs, not 580K subs ;-)
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for your comment. I'm still getting the hang of this "premiere" feature - I've heard this from a couple others as well and I'm keeping it in mind. It would be nice to have 580k, with as hard as I work on this channel, but I know that will come in time if I keep at this. And I hear you about the video content too. More or less, when working full time plus trying to get out a video per week of good wholesome content, my work week turns into 80 hours or more. It's a lot to keep up with, and any time spent not working my job, I'm writing, filming, and editing. Though sometimes short, I do my best to make my videos professional and concise. This video alone took 20 to 30 hours from start to finish. Dislikes are disheartening to see, on any of my videos, especially after busting my butt to get good quality content out. But whether showing how to do this on a "simple" trace or otherwise, many people are now getting into electronics repair and refurbishment, and Gameboys are how they are learning and starting out. What I am trying to do is show/teach people skills that they can take into repairing other things as well so that they can broaden their horizons and do more. I hope this makes sense. Thanks for watching.
🤦🏾♀️that is not what kosher means, not even colloquially. Dear god our society is fast forwarding to Idiocracy
It's an acceptable use of the informal. No idea what you're rattling on about.
@@incandescentwithragenot even colloquially. Not even close.
You people just toss words around and hope it amounts to something 🙄 that’s what happens when you’re too lazy to look up words so you just guess what they mean and carry in blindly 😂
This is how civilizations die, death by a million small cuts. You think I’m exaggerating and that’s the saddest part. Karl Marx would be very very proud of you.
@@billgates3699 You're clearly a bit unhinged. Cya.
@@billgates3699 I suspect you have some issues
@@billgates3699
I'm always impressed when someone can be so enthusiastic and confident it what they say, while being 100% wrong.
Collins dictionary:
"Something that is kosher is generally approved of or considered to be correct. [informal]"
Fahrenheit?? c'mon, let's move to metric!
My zl and zr got broken with the same problem can you help me with that