Hacking Switch is missing capacitor after soldering. Should I worry?

aiokswhatever · Jul 22, 2021

Hi all
I wanted to take this path of installing mod chip by myself and I went through it.
I have never soldered a thing before so it was a big mess and I don't know how but at the end I got a working modded switch

But I noticed that I seem to desolder one capacitor

Sorry you got to see this work, I know it's horrible, but It works fine.
I'm just curious why and what this capacitor was doing there all the time as console didn't notice its missing.

FAST6191 · Jul 22, 2021

I doubt anybody here has schematics or pinouts good enough to tell what that one in particular is connected to or does specifically. Capacitors can also have multiple things they get used for.

In general capacitors like that that close to a device like that are noise filtering and voltage stabilisation.
It might well continue to work fine, and how much I am inclined to either get you to fix it or take it to someone more versed in soldering I don't know.
If it is going to cause issues you will most likely notice it if
1) You go somewhere with a lot of electrical noise. CRT monitors, large motors, plasma screens, close to modern power supplies for things (see switch mode supplies, or why devices to power things don't weigh half as much as they used to decades ago when it was all big transformers) and plenty of other things will do this.
Not being there will see it not able to take the little voltage spike or drop.

2) if the battery runs low, things get hot maybe if you connect it to its power supply or maybe if you try it in a dock. Those sorts of things might result in momentary power drops that the capacitor will normally smooth out. Not being there though will see it not able to provide the little boost in voltage it normally would. In some cases this smoothing is also part of the protection for a circuit but this far into a circuit it is probably fairly well taken care of elsewhere/before now.

Errors in the program, crashing of things, graphical errors and such would be the obvious symptoms and might not be immediately apparent when it just boots up -- play a game hard on the resources of a system, get it a bit hot (through play or being in a hot place for a while), try it with power cord plugged in or in a dock.

mickcris · Jul 23, 2021

you also look to have a bridge on the right cap

wiiNinja · Aug 7, 2021

For a moment there, I thought you say you had some screws left over after the Switch has been assembled. That would have been something to worry about.

gabrilapin · Feb 3, 2023

Hi everyone ! What are the specs of all 32 capacitors on top of the tegra x1+ chip ? (In ly case switch lite) and are they even the same specs or multiples specs ?

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