Hardware Switch oled alternate C point (destructive)

[Shadow_The_Hedgehog82]

Not sure if anyone would want to try it but might be worth seeing how hard it is if you have a dead oled board laying around. Using the images from this website: http://balika011.hu/switch/oled/ I traced the c point and there should be an area it can be reached without needing to reflow the emmc, the bad news is it required digging down though some ground layers in the board, I think they could probably be cut out with a scalpel or using a grinding pen. The green point is where the pad is for the c point is and the red is an area that can be cut out

 

[l7777]

That would be brave. It looks like you could grab the D point a few pads to the left if you're going to go that far into it as well.

 

[binkinator]

I appreciate the thought process here. I’ve “accidentally” cut through a multi-layer Switch PCB (not an OLED) and it’s really hard not to ground things out once you start disturbing the layers. I might try a random pad on my blown V1 board and see if I can pull it off. Will be interested in hearing if someone can cleanly pull this off on a real OLED.

 

[l7777]

I appreciate the thought process here. I’ve “accidentally” cut through a multi-layer Switch PCB (not an OLED) and it’s really hard not to ground things out once you start disturbing the layers. I might try a random pad on my blown V1 board and see if I can pull it off. Will be interested in hearing if someone can cleanly pull this off on a real OLED.

I suppose the trick would be to remove a larger section of the ground plane, cover the whole area in conformal coating, then scratch off the coating for the pads you wanted.

 

[Shadow_The_Hedgehog82]

I appreciate the thought process here. I’ve “accidentally” cut through a multi-layer Switch PCB (not an OLED) and it’s really hard not to ground things out once you start disturbing the layers. I might try a random pad on my blown V1 board and see if I can pull it off. Will be interested in hearing if someone can cleanly pull this off on a real OLED.

I suppose the trick would be to remove a larger section of the ground plane, cover the whole area in conformal coating, then scratch off the coating for the pads you wanted.

I think if you scored around the edge for the section to cut out and then peeled it up with tweezers you could get a clean section removed without risking any bridging between the layers, the two layers to remove are both ground also so if they touch it shouldn't matter much

I messed up my A point so have ordered one of these, If i fail at getting my oled working again i will test out the cutting, actually i may have to do the cut anyway as I think i ripped up the pad so it might not be connected to the cpu anymore if i broke more than the top layer

 

[jeafke]

Just saw a video from a russian doing this

 

[l7777]

Just saw a video from a russian doing this

Well I suppose its a choice between that or R&I the EMMC. He made it look relatively strait forward. Just go slow when removing layers. Looked like quality work to me.

 

[Shadow_The_Hedgehog82]

Just saw a video from a russian doing this

damn awesome

 

[zamastyle]

Im curious to know if anyone is using this as a standard install method. Anyone wanna share their experience with it?

 

[Jarbin01]

Im curious to know if anyone is using this as a standard install method. Anyone wanna share their experience with it?

I do it in my switch oled zelda edition and is easy. Only need patience and time (30 minutes). I do the process slow and all woked perfect. This point is more stable for picofly.

 

[Shadow_The_Hedgehog82]

Looks like this is a standard install method now

 

[l7777]

Makes sense for him, he's doing lots of these and now doesn't have to remove the main board. Not sure it benefits hobbyists or people doing installs for themselves.

 

[Shadow_The_Hedgehog82]

Makes sense for him, he's doing lots of these and now doesn't have to remove the main board. Not sure it benefits hobbyists or people doing installs for themselves.

Well those slide in emmc pcb adapters suck, only work well if you reflow them, id still be scared to do this though lol i dont have a microscope

 

[l7777]

Well those slide in emmc pcb adapters suck, only work well if you reflow them, id still be scared to do this though lol i dont have a microscope

I know I'm a sample size of one but my OLED is still working two years later with a corner adapter and no reflow. I'm sure this method results in fewer issues for those selling modded consoles.