Hacking Hardware Picofly - a HWFLY switch modchip

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Success, my Mariko has married Picofly :)

I have chosen a different mosfet: IRF8736PBF because it has legs so soldering is much easier.
it looks like this:
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and in my Mariko switch it looks like this:
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Datasheet:
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Green LED is coming on the "rp2040 one" in 1 second.
THANK YOU ALL (I've read the whole thread) it is a very hard mod but it is much fun.
the link of purchase please ?
 
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Hi guys, I salvaged the mosfet from an unused v1 flex cable and I need to install it into a Mariko switch.

According to a previous poster, it's a NP2016 mosfet (Here's the data sheet).

It has the same layout of the other more used mosfet and it looks a little bit weaker (but it was on the original flex cable, so I would assume it to still be plenty enough).

That said, considering that rehius himself said that single mosfet install to both caps should work without issues, does the attached scheme image make sense?

And assuming I don't short anything but the single mosfet is simply not enough will something bad happen or can I just desolder everything and wait for more mosfets?

Also, can I use simple epoxy to keep wires and components in place? UV resin would cost me a liver (bonus pic of the epoxy I got from the local electronics shop)

Thanks!
 

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My switch lite can get in to no sd card screen but it can't boot to hekate and keep glitching (blue blink -> green loop). I'm using fw 2.65.
 
Maybe the RST line need cleans. I remember @rehius saying that RST line is sensitive.
And i see in the pio glitch, it kind of make the cpu in reset state, before glitching.
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I think the fuse is inside the tegra, in the range of nanometer, can't be seen.
I mean a protection fuse, which cuts when there is an overload

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Been repaired on hundreds of switch so far, I rarely see the Fuse/Charge port fuse cuts/blow itself for protection purpose, Switch dies but fuse alive for the most case.
And in theory, the fuse only cuts charging power but does nothing when you "overload" the internal system or installing extra chip and wires.
 
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Been repaired on hundreds of switch so far, I rarely see the Fuse/Charge port fuse cuts/blow itself for protection purpose, Switch dies but fuse alive for the most case.
Any in theory, It only cuts charging power but does nothing when you "overload" the internal system or installing extra chip and wires.
but the oled switch and the lite have it? because i can't find it

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