Acer A515 not charging, don't get tricked by this specific fault, easy fix

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[@Yoyo-me]

You know... Sometimes when a repair is ongoing... I brought into a scene which sounds like this 😂😁...my words sometimes: Everything is ok...but is not running 😂🤔 Bless the proper calibrated wire! Without this...no electronics can be done! Cheers Sorin! A pleasure to watch your repairs.💪

[@mm0077]

That is a proper calibrated fault and a proper classic solution is a proper calibrated wire😅. Thank you

[@SamiTM]

Nice one. Other repair shops would probably just replace the power jack, and laptop would work for a while coming back with same issue.

[@ljubopobric5385]

it is better to remove resistor on divider, 19v to 5 v, but it is easyer like this, stay well Sorin

[@jozsiolah1435]

Some online tricks exist, that works. The tricks vary by the brands of the laptop. I removed the battery, started an Asus, and the charging started while I inserted the battery. The charging problems are mainly caused by the weakness of the charger, that can also be a nee one. I used a 12 v battery screwdriver to fix the charger’s 19 v output, while the charger is AC offline. The generator also fixes locked, blacklisted chargers, and universal chargers. Generating the current may take up to 10 minutes, until the charger has a resistance against the generator.

[@kordny02]

Funny thing about the charging port detection with 5V, back a few years ago Acer didn't have any charging port detection and there was a case of someones laptop (and house) catching on fire from a very badly mangled charging port shorting. They started doing this which fixed nothing because we still get burned charging connectors, but also ones that are slightly too loose on the detection pin like this one. Usually we just remove a resistor in a voltage divider meant to turn 19V into 5V for the detection pin (next to PQB23 on this one), shorting it to ground is also a good option if you don't know where it is.

[@samfosi4670]

Yeah! I recentlly came across that exact problem and I just said to myself "This is a deliberate design to make the device fail".

[@ShadLom]

Thanks Enos, such a wonderful job u are doing, Kudos

[@gokhantekyildirim]

I'm using same laptop. It also charges by type-c port. And customer enabled 80% charging limit.

[@lucianofz788]

Hi Sorin Those laptops have a bios option that if the battery is over 80% they don’t charge just need to disable it

[@wisher21uk]

Brilliantly fixed thanks sorin 😊

[@Jokelec]

Excellent, thanks to showing us commun fault like this. 👌

[@Hunedit]

look at 2:38 for PQB1 transistor+resistor pair. Someting is doggy there... (cold solder joints IMHO)

[@widyahong]

Short id pin to ground is consume battery all the time because its normally pull up

[@aymenahmeddik5057]

Please sorin can you do a video about varistors and how to choose it 🙏 you're the best

[@adrjanek9458]

Have same laptop, thanks Sorin 😊

[@saltcityrepairs5121]

Present, Maestro Sorin

[@sokoloft3]

I have one of these I'm waiting for the charger for. Odd thing is it calls for a 45w charger, but I could get the 65w one cheaper. Replaced the cmos and thermal paste. Was told its supposed to work but I'll know once I get the charger. Then its up on marketplace since I don't need one.

[@noywritbhowmik357]

My acer laptop has the similar charging port so now I have got to know what fault it is now I can repair my one any time thanks

[@alessandrovirdis520]

Long time not seeing the proper calibrated wire 😁😁

[@ngwanindialphonse8447]

Great teacher

[@flaviusrazvan3999]

Every video is helpful :)

[@rudolfra7736]

NOTE: Acer geniuses placing on some boards a little switch(open case) and battery will not charge until you return bottom case back or just short it

[@verdunelectronics9985]

very nice trick

[@davidorris638]

Love bro, top ❤

[@eugenefrancisco1029]

Gy

[@paulahzivillanueva2827]

what type of power supply for charging is he using?

[@tameratmekonnen1192]

what happened to Acer? am seeing them here a lot!

[@msihleza_vlogs]

Hi how can I insert a ram in a laptop where there is no ram slots

[@mihaioleniuc1642]

Nice! 😎

[@classmaster]

Everyday the new innovations on laptops are destroying all the friendly use of a device. I think the factories aren’t doing the proper quality test. Terrible design. Thumps up for the great video. 👍🏻

[@ShadLom]

Actually i need some help from here. I installed windows 10 on a chromebook 11 but the touchpad and audio are not working, anyone with the correct drivers please my head is burning. I thank you

[@JayPrakash-th4rd]

This is bad design on purpose !

[@nalleholm]

Hi Sorin! Try buy BenQ projektors,, in sweden it name is W1070 And My favorite W 2000. Damm wath aplasure to rapaire! Try Dlp projektor repair. You dotn gonna reget. Sorry my swe-eng is tarablr.

[@Negiku]

2 fans, 2 heatpipe without a dGPU? That's a nice design or Ryzen is just hot?

[@Bruuhhhhhh]

One can only imagine a poor technician trying to figure out this fault, clueless about this charging pin until they find this video and finally see the light at the end of the tunnel lol

[@robertroe1956]

Don't you think it's about time manufacturers standardised on usb c charging sockets, as per cell phones, or is this not possible?

[@orange11squares]

the laptop also has usb-c charging, as someone said above.

[@robertroe1956]

@@orange11squares Thank you for your reply. I did read that, but that wasn't my question.

[@solomonmulatu9347]

💯💯💯💯

[@Swenser]

Soon, you will be repairing E V cars. Charging port solution, right?

[@brightmapoxy]

I dont expect EV charging port to become faulty, remember its not minartured

[@ocsrc]

The tiny barrel connectors are horrible and they break all the time. I really miss the old square adapters that laptops had. They had 3 or 4 pins and they were really rugged

[@mart43]

​@@ocsrc What about USB-C? Do you like that connector for charging because it is square?

[@ocsrc]

@@mart43 yes, USB-C is nice. But the laptops all use the barrel style connectors. They should use an actual square that is 3/4 or 1 inch square with 3 prongs, like the old laptops used. They never broke. These barrels, they are not secured in the machine. The boards inside are too easy to break the connector from the board. It needs to be a solid connector that is metal and part of the case, so if you bang it the PCB board doesn't break

[@mikanikolic1976]

it will not happen, if everyone had EV cars, they would consume more electricity to charge the batteries, so power plants would have to expand and spend more on electricity production, and therefore there will be more pollution of the atmosphere

[@aliemlek]

👍👍👌👌

[@mnemonicrulez]

Proper calibrated wire 😂

[@worroSfOretsevraH]

...and Sorin is gone!

[@gizmomakesit]

A laptop with dual m.2 slot , dual ram slot and dual fans for just a cpu. With such shitty dc jack . Like what!!!!, they realised at end that they designed future proof laptop so they needed to add this fault .

[@maklogetrich2378]

proper dodgy design

[@pihmusik]