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    Hardware Switch Repair advice needed.

    I only woke up when I wrote that mean resistors not caps, that switch was sold on ebay now though so can no longer test it but all signs pointed to dead apu but I sold it for a price that if someone sold it on for parts they would of made there money back so that dead switch can live on in other...
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    Hardware Switch Repair advice needed.

    I found a nice diagram where it showed every ohm for every cap and tested it like the window and thought I'm unsure on this so I took it to a local person who was reccomend and he did the exact same tests as me and said I have had this before its the apu he even changed all the common failure...
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    Hardware Switch Repair advice needed.

    Sorry for the late reply I have managed to get myself a decent multimeter and have checked every single cap I could, I even took it to someone local and it seems to be the apu is at fault and will need a reflow but without the gear that neither me or the local person had the switch is back up on...
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    Hardware Switch Repair advice needed.

    Before it gave out on me I was using a mystery brand multimeter that cost me £8 anything better than that thing is an upgrade :rofl2:
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    Hardware Switch Repair advice needed.

    The fluke ones are amazing but my god the price there is some of the UNI-T's on sale on amazon at the minute so going to snag myself one of those. Thank you for all your help.
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    Hardware Switch Repair advice needed.

    I have opened more PSP's and DS's than I dare to count but with those they always have really small and fiddly parts not used to micro-soldering though but always a good time to learn that stuff might be tempted to buy another busted switch just to practise on can never have to many broken...
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    Hardware Switch Repair advice needed.

    1ST Stage 1) I had it under a jewelers magnifier and the pins are all round in good health. 2) My console has the serial number in the XAJ40060000000 and above range so it is patched. 3/4) Going to get a RCM Jig don't want to risk damaged the pins will get back to you on that one. 2nd Stage...
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    Hardware Switch Repair advice needed.

    I have recently purchased a switch that I would like to try and repair I have history in fixing PSP's and most of the DS line On to the problem I'm unsure which chip is causing me the problems when I first got it I put it onto my USB-C Meter (Using an official Powerbrick) to see what it was...
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