Hacking SX Core with conductive glue/paint

[DragarX]

I've got an SX core coming in the mail to install onto my V1 switch. I was looking into attaching the mod via conductive paint/glue rather than soldering as a less destructive/permanent solution. I doubt anyone had tested this before, but would anyone have any reason why this wouldn't work? with the v1 cable, the pads pretty much touch the caps as it is, so this would really just be more of a way to hold them together than a true solder.
The product I plan to use is linked bellow it's listed at a resistance of "0.02 - 0.1 ohms/cm2." would this affect the chip at all or is this tiny amount of resistance fine?

https://www.jaycar.com.au/silver-conductive-varnish/p/NS3030

 

[nero99]

just use solder. people need to stop trying to get around that with things that will not work

 

[Hayato213]

You need to solder.

 

[DragarX]

I appreciate the replies, thank you. But neither of you actually answered my questions.

 

[Hayato213]

I appreciate the replies, thank you. But neither of you actually answered my questions.

It is simple it ain't going to work, you need to solder, other method ain't going to asks.

 

[DragarX]

It is simple it ain't going to work, you need to solder, other method ain't going to asks.

Can you explain why though?

 

[Hayato213]

Can you explain why though?

you don't want paint on the whole motherboard, you just going make a mess, plus if you solder a wire it is from point a to point b it is cleaner, no example of hard modding of the switch have been done with conductive glue/paint. If you want to brick your unit go ahead with your crazy idea.

 

[DragarX]

you don't want paint on the whole motherboard, you just going make a mess, plus if you solder a wire it is from point a to point b it is cleaner, no example of hard modding of the switch have been done with conductive glue/paint. If you want to brick your unit go ahead with your crazy idea.

What the hell are you talking about? paint on the whole motherboard? The paint would be used in the exact same spot and size as the solder. How would this possibly cause a brick?

 

[Hayato213]

What the hell are you talking about? paint on the whole motherboard? The paint would be used in the exact same spot and size as the solder. How would this possibly cause a brick?

Well you want a wire from point A from the main board to point B on the chip, you don't want the conductant on the rest of the motherboard when not needed, that why people solder wires, keep in mind the modchip isn't part of the main unit, I own a few hard modded switches and all of them are hard modded via soldering, you can check out the sx thread about the core and lite no one show any example of how it was hard modded outside of soldering.

 

[DragarX]

Well you want a wire from point A from the main board to point B on the chip, you don't want the conductant on the rest of the motherboard when not needed, that why people solder wires, keep in mind the modchip isn't part of the main unit, I own a few hard modded switches and all of them are hard modded via soldering, you can check out the sx thread about the core and lite no one show any example of how it was hard modded outside of soldering.

if you've installed TX core's before, then you should know that point a and point b are basically already touching (no wires involved) so there would only be a tiny bit of paint where the solder would be. I don't know why you think I'd be painting anywhere else on the board.
I obviously know nobody has done it yet, otherwise I would already have the information at hand and wouldn't have created a new thread.
I'm looking for reasons as to why this method would not work, I already know soldering is the optimum/preferred method, but unless I'm aware of any problems this method could have I'm willing to give it a go as a possible method for other users without solder skills or equipment to install the chip themselves.
If i do in fact find a reason why this method would not work, then I'll certainly solder it, it will just end up costing a lot more for me to upgrade my current solder equipment.

 

[Hayato213]

if you've installed TX core's before, then you should know that point a and point b are basically already touching so there would only be a tiny bit of paint where the solder would be. I don't know why you think I'd be painting anywhere else on the board.
I obviously know nobody has done it yet, otherwise I would already have the information at hand and wouldn't have created a new thread.
I'm looking for reasons as to why this method would not work, I already know soldering is the optimum/preferred method, but unless I'm aware of any problems this method could have I'm willing to give it a go as a possible method for other users without solder skills or equipment to install the chip themselves.
If i do in fact find a reason why this method would not work, then I'll certainly solder it, it will just end up costing a lot more for me to upgrade my current solder equipment.

Your choice bud.

 

[r5xscn]

Well, to answer your question (is it possible?), yes, it is possible as long as it is conductive and low resistance. Next, you need to somehow secure it from being moving around when... "moving around". Let us know your result as there is no one here who has tried one with conductive paint or glue AFAIK.

 

[DragarX]

Well, to answer your question (is it possible?), yes, it is possible as long as it is conductive and low resistance. Next, you need to somehow secure it from being moving around when... "moving around". Let us know your result as there is no one here who has tried one with conductive paint or glue AFAIK.

Thank you, this is more what i was looking for.
I've got some double sided tape to hold the flex down, which i have seen used in several other guides before albeit with solder. I also wouldn't be apposed to soldering the anchor points as my current solder setup should be able to do that without any extra gear.

 

[ApoQ]

You should just try

 

[r5xscn]

Thank you, this is more what i was looking for.
I've got some double sided tape to hold the flex down, which i have seen used in several other guides before albeit with solder. I also wouldn't be apposed to soldering the anchor points as my current solder setup should be able to do that without any extra gear.

Let us know your result when you are done! This surely will lower the skill requirement for installation.

 

[driverdis]

Too bad you can’t actually activate the chip anymore. With the activation servers being down there is probably not a way to actually use SXOS.

I am looking forward to if you get it installed with conductive paint since this would allow myself to install one without getting better equipment or relying on someone else.

of course I hope all this is not going to be worthless for anyone to install and use new chips without a way to activate them.

 

[britain4]

If you have a patched V1 then you can still use the chip with the SXOS boot.dat without a license to boot the Hekate payload. V2/lite users will have to wait for Hekate/Atmosphere to be updated but I’m sure this will happen.

Someone will probably find a way of getting round this though and loading Hekate straight from the chip

 

[AlexValCar]

Thank you, this is more what i was looking for.
I've got some double sided tape to hold the flex down, which i have seen used in several other guides before albeit with solder. I also wouldn't be apposed to soldering the anchor points as my current solder setup should be able to do that without any extra gear.

Please please Let us know your result when you are done!!!!

 

[izy]

Too bad you can’t actually activate the chip anymore. With the activation servers being down there is probably not a way to actually use SXOS.

I am looking forward to if you get it installed with conductive paint since this would allow myself to install one without getting better equipment or relying on someone else.

of course I hope all this is not going to be worthless for anyone to install and use new chips without a way to activate them.

i mean the servers are up

 

[DragarX]

Unfortunately the store i wanted to purchase from didn't have the varnish in stock. So I ended up just soldering it, which actually worked fine until about an hour later and now it won't boot or anything.