Believe me, right there with you on that. I've actually posted to YT Support querying if there's a way around the issue :(

Yes it's annoying as all hell

I changed the visibility status to "visible" and it seems like YT got all excited *sigh* that's about 60 live streams of the past I did that on *groan*

@@pldaniels Only seen one notification and this one is the only one showing up as a recent one so nothing to worry about. Just got curious when the notification popped up and the stream banner said "4 months ago" 😂

I'm currently going through my old stock of Qianli iNeezy Tweezers, they have that stepped ground down tip profile. Fairly sure they still make them. In the end when I find a pair that I like I tend to buy 5~10 of them so I don't have to go looking again any time too soon :)

Thanks I sincerely appreciate your suggestion

It's an option I take if I can't find them visually. Sometimes you get them and they're under 0.05R or over 10~15R and that makes them not so easy to find with safe injection levels (0.5->1V at 2~3A peak). Was a good example in a previous video (live) I did where there was a short on the board and it was a MLCC but it was not showing up too well; easy to miss. Anyhow, for me, I prefer the look first, if not found, try injection.

Thanks for visiting - nice to see some eyeballs channeled over here from JDT.

What's "annoying" with newer PMICs ( USB-C series onwards for Macbooks ) is that they react so quickly that you don't get a chance to really see any thermal pulses under normal circumstances. Still, better that they're fast and at least the board doesn't go up in smoke leaving behind a carbonised crater in the PCB.

@@pldaniels Higher framerate thermal cam, higher sensitivity and ability to trigger frame-by-frame delta analysis to capture any "blips" ? Software can then buffer 5s of data and find the frame with the highest blip and amplify that to show where it was. With so little actual pixels it should be quite trivial. Want to go nuts, add keypoint matching as well (lots of OpenCV libs available) to make sure correct pixels are compared in case of camera or board motion.

Definitely. Do not see enough of these clean jobs.

Probably less damage to create specifically sized captive pliers to go around the part and twist/shear it off - certainly if there's enough room using the flick-off method, assuming you're appropriately skilled, is the least invasive technique of all... assuming you do it right :|

Thanks for dropping in and watching!

Have to leave room for the Tantrum caps, liquid damage and bugs :D

Because now and then it's not a shorted cap but rather a shot-through MOSFET for GPU/CPU or other sensitive area, and if you inject voltage inappropriately you can ruin the board. The other reason is that it's less trouble to spend 10 minutes looking for a cracked cap than soldering on wires, setting up the DCPSU, setting up the iR cam and then scanning over the board looking for the short, particularly if it's outside of the ideal short range of ~0R1 - 10R, of which a lot of them can be (I've had extremely hard shorts < 50mR and very soft shorts > 15R which don't show up too well with iR due to lack of heat generated ). I prefer to take some time and apply the least amount of rework/mods to a board level at a time to minimise risks, particularly with these soldered-on-and-encrypted SSDs. Each to their own style, and this is the style I personally am most comfortable with when it comes to being accountable with the customer.

It does the job well. I tried some fully opaque units but alas they didn't have the fiber reinforcements so tended to puff & buckle soon as heat was applied :(

Certainly with these newer machines it's a royal PITA ( A1425 and A1534 were other big pains in the past ). Maybe they should put a dye indicator in the caps so when they pop/crack you can see them quickly :)

Indeed was happy to see that crack. Usually I start with PMIC areas, then speakers amps... I missed this one the first round or two. At least this one was visible, unlike the one from the recent live-stream where the crack was located on the underside ( had to restort to primative injection and thermal check )

Did not even read the other "easy pizza" comments earlier :)

I’m annoyed I forgot to squelch the audio for the accelerated sections, but I also stupidly realised I had been setting the wrong encoding settings with the video editor in previous videos, this one should look crisper and more saturated. Live and learn I suppose

@@pldaniels Yes your rubbish at everything, repair, coding, squelching audio :) No, it's great to see and maybe burning the midnight oil too much to entertain us here live in Europe (The Netherlands) is clouding your view. This video looks great !

@@rabrabbito3650 thanks ;-) I watched the video a few times after I had encoded it and didn't hear the screaming-squeaking noise but only did after I had put the video to public/live. Not quite sure why I didn't hear it on the local video, frustrating because I used the same headphones (nice Sennheisers), might have been too much background noise during the day time. Thanks for watching, much appreciated.

@@pldaniels I'm afraid KZbin, in all it's wisdom, throws a special sauce over the upload ? I've heard that before, also from Rossie and other youtubers.

Zero. Only got up to 2017 series iMac 21".

@@pldaniels Damn that's pretty good. Screen cable repairs for those things are going crazy at the moment.

@@megatronskneecap what's the fault they ( M1 iMac ) are experiencing? You're referring to the 24" desktop all-in-one units right ?

@@pldaniels Yep, if you search up “Burnt out screen connector M1 iMac) you can see an Apple Community thread of a bunch of them. I wouldn’t be shocked to see one on your bench soon enough. It’s the same awful screen connector found in the A1706, 7 & 8’s but stretched out in an iMac that causes it to eventually frail with heat and short onto the machines metal body causing screen artefacts.

@@pldaniels I hope my other comment explaining it went through. KZbin seems to censor my own replies to me.

I think a big factor of the issue is the relative Farad-Volt densities. Most of these failures are happening on the highly packed parts, 10uF 25V in 603, or worse (imo ;) ) 20uF 6V3 in 402, just crazy.

@@pldaniels Yep. When are you going to do the Microwave experiment? I want to block off time to watch it live if possible. 💥

@@bblod4896 likely won't be live... but I do need to get around to that

Rossmann has no business being near flux :D

@@pldaniels Rossmann school of thought on flux has its advantages.

1 nanoRossmann of flux = 1 yottaDaniels of flux.

@@asicdathens as always it's all about context. For the most part the excess flux became a running joke for Rossmann.

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@@pldaniels many thanks!

That being an M1 A2337 unit? They're nice machines. I actually do like them because they still have the more realistic build and only requiring 5 minutes to extract the board.

@@pldaniels Yes. Good to know that it should be easy to service. I’ve used Macs since 1988 and only had 2 problems. A burnt out resistor on a Mac Plus and a faulty power supply on a early iMac, which was replaced under warranty.

This cap is more for rail ripple stability (uF) than high frequency noise control ( pF ). These are for the local speaker amps so keeping the effective ESR down and helping avoid rail sag is useful. Easy to replace these ones with no real risks

The damage was visible - you get used to seeing their tell-tale visible flaws; that's why I search over the boards with the boards held at an oblique angle as it tends to be more efficient at revealing the cracks. Note also that I'm using an optical microscope and the quality of what I see is always going to better than the video recording

@@pldaniels safer way if you got the equipment. I tend to inject 1v and grab thermal camera.

@@GurjVirdee that certainly does work if you're fortunate enough to have it fail within the 0.1~10R sort of resistance range. I had one on a live stream the other day that was nearly impossible to find with the thermal cam :(

Less is more in so many cases. Glad to not have to be needing so many ultrasonic cleaned boards now.

I feel for other industries such as car repairs, I've seen them have to spend half a day disassembling a vehicle just to get to a $15 part :-o

In the the video at least; still a solid 2 hours on the bench of course

I got up this morning and saw the two notifications, and thought it a bit odd. He posted ~1 hour after yours, and it's so fun to see; The two of you have such radical different ways of approaching both the diagnostic- and the repair aspect. You are meticulous, safe and thorough, while EasyPizza.. I mean Sorin.. thrives using his way. Luckily though, this time he actually didn't just delete the cap with a blade or tweezers

in contrast to Sorin you actually solder back the component...

For *some* situations I won't, usually if it's in a high thermal sink area and there's sufficient nearby decoupling capacitance to support the loss of the cap removed, but certainly where it's no/little risk to put it back I much prefer to certainly.

He has quite a following that's for sure. Where did the "Easy Pizza" thing come from (I did notice that on his thumbnails now)

@@pldaniels It's always been "Easy Pizza" for Sorin as long as I remember. The meaning of it is easy money(pizza money). Sorin likes to compare repair prizes to pizza prizes since different countries have different costs. But relative cost to pizza vs repair should be around same. When in UK Sorin said pizza costs like 25 pounds in some other country might cost like 10 pounds. By the way how much is pizza in Australia? ;) I assume around same as in UK.