Celestron NexStar Telescope Board Repair 🔭

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[@Brady8812]

Nice job! It's fun branching out I'd say 90% of the audience will not mind either. It's super interesting and helpful for anyone who comes across similar issues. Good to see you back on the YT!

[@ststele]

Awesome, thank you!

[@mariorossi7930]

The "ducktape, as good as new" killed me 😂♥️❤️❤️

[@johnmorgans7919]

Good to see you back more please

[@ststele]

I hope some content that isn't related to phones is ok too! I have more in the works! :-)

[@steveng5503]

We miss you Jay! You starve us of your talent. We don’t see enough of you and your workbench skills. Please make more content? 👌✌️🇬🇧

[@ststele]

Thank you, I will do my very best. Cellphone board repair with solely a KZbin customer base is getting almost impossible to survive. Almost half of what I get now has already had the CPU swapped!!

[@vitorajic5901]

​@@ststele hi Jay, i was watching your video celestron motor control board repair, and I have two boards from 80mm telescopes that do not move left to right or up and down. I'm in Canada and was curious if there is any way I can ship them out to you to fix them. Thank you, Vito.

[@sodderbridge]

So if your microscope ever fails you can fix it with a telescope from far far away?

[@ststele]

^^^^ Ideas for future content lol

[@manishmohandas1075]

Microscope doesn't fail that easily unless if it's dropped down to the floor,

[@AnthonyRBlacker]

I love it when someone tells me 'the board is fried just replace it'. Challenge accepted! Nice work on this one - also, that feeling when the replacement IC has ONE different number or something ahh that feeling, but fires up with full functionality and the relief!! Nice work, I"m sure he'll be thrilled to have this back up and running!

[@daviddenson3324]

Laughed at the sesame street Count reference...and yes, duct tape fixes everything. Nice job Jason!

[@TokyoChanSan]

one of the better YT fixer people. TY!

[@ststele]

Thank you 🙏

[@Green_House]

Telescopes & Electronics - Two of my favourite interests! Great (correct) pronunciation of s o l d e r ! ! ! 🇦🇺 Well done. 😉

[@ststele]

Oh wow, there are still normal people! 😁 Thank u

[@dave7010]

👍 Big thumbs up. Dad of the year. Your Son will be so happy. Nice to see you back Jason, A great 2023 to you and your Family. 👍

[@ststele]

Same to you! Thank you!

[@bblod4896]

FYI: "A rare green comet is expected to pass by Earth this week and will be visible in the night sky for nearly a month, according to NASA and astronomers." Nice repair Jason. Happy 2023.

[@ststele]

Jorden was saying something about this recently! Sounds like it will be traversing the sky slow enough to see it for a long time! Thank you!

[@k.h.1587]

Most comets are green, or at least have some green in them. Cyanogen gas

[@KD0CAC]

I had an actual " fried " board today , worked on a dead tabletop ice maker , I opened up & saw some smoke indications , pulled the board out & found on the back side a large area of the board [ about 1/4 " ] burned out . What had burned was the fuse [ in black box ] one leg and over to the power coming in 120vac . The reason it burned & did not blow the fuse was because the board was munted directly below a pivot point for the ice tray , when it filled with water - the water would dribble out down to the board , with a long enough time & heavy mineralized tap water --- the minerals in the water pilled up & made the short that burned the board --- and weird did not blow the fuse ;) Dug the burnt / carbon out of the hole , add copper wire to extend the missing legs & traces --- and all working . Lastly glued in a plastic shield , so if the leak kept happening --- is would runout the bottom - not onto the circuit board . Thanks again

[@ststele]

Wow that is crazy! I bet the engineers who designed that never would have seen it coming! Nice repair though and glad you fixed it. Thanks for commenting

[@krellft]

Nice one ... as soon as I saw that mount I said gonna be the motor driver chip ... I got similar Orion/Merlin mount, board is slightly different ... took it apart but plugged the power cable in to one of the motor connectors (both axis motors & power use 6pin headers on my board) ... doh! ... blew a crater in the driver chip ;) ... surprised I got a replacement ... nice repair though ... love to see more like this ...

[@arkiefyler]

I knew you could do it!!! BTW, I'll be driving down to your house next week. My 2014 Toyota Highlander audio/map system intermittently RE-boots (more often after the car warms up). I'm positive you can find and fix the problem while I visit Disney World in my rented car. No rush! You can have my car for 5 full days! 👍🤪 I think $15 would be an appropriate fee, since you already have all the tools you'll need. See you next week! 👏

[@jessiec4128]

Your son will be very happy for sure, great video here!

[@likearockcm]

New revenue streams ! I hope you get rich you deserve it 👍From a moderately okay fan !

[@ststele]

This was a nice break from super micro board repair! I've given up on getting rich but I'll gladly accept some motor driver boards for repair! 💰

[@steve6438]

Great seeing you fix other types of electronics besides i devices. Keep up the good work.

[@mimigorbonzo6207]

Great Video ty please keep it up! I like seeing you repair other things!

[@ststele]

Thank you! I'm going to post a Dremel 3D Printer Motherboard repair in the morning.

[@haakmeer]

he is back, love your content. greetings from the Netherlands

[@johnfinn1570]

Well done Jason

[@Dutch_off_grid_homesteading]

Heya love to see you get out of your comfort zone 1 in a while

[@arnolddebeer5890]

Nice to see you on something else then phones 😀😀

[@wisher21uk]

Nice fix mate well done

[@zx8401ztv]

Smashing repair jason :-D, the two motors are likely ordinary d.c types, that chip swaps polarity to the selected motor. You do realise that millions of telescopes will wing there way to your door for repair lol. That cat on your T shirt, What did someone do to that cat to get it looking surprised lol.

[@ststele]

Thankss👍I will gladly accept these boards for repair! I think the manufacturer sells the boards but people with older models are out of luck. I didn't make an attempt to source a whole board for this one. I just went straight after fixing it!

[@absurdengineering]

@@ststeleThat’s more like the size scale of what I design and work on, and I was just smiling the whole way through this video. You did everything “by the book”. If only someone wrote the book that is. Excellent job.

[@Ed31003]

nice repair and 🔭 🔭 and have a great 2023

[@bellslinki]

Great stuff Jason! Great to see an upload from you.

[@k.h.1587]

You have the tripods swapped,.at least as far as what the scooes originally came with. The silver tubes came with the square leg aluminum tripod and the black ones came with the steel tube tripod. The steel one is a little better than that super light and flimsy aluminum one, but in the case of both of those scooes, the tripod is the weakest link. The silver tube, I assume to be a nexstar 130gt, is 20+ years old, they came out with the nexstar SLT series shortly afterwards. The black nexstar GT were mainly costco specials, not part of the actual celestron lineup, but exclusive to costco. They have modern improvements like a dovetail and saddle system, rather than the tube cradle, but the dovetail is so short, you cant balance the scope if needed. The costco GT mounts are a great way to get a goto mount for a small scope, but most of the scopes that came in the specials were way too big for the mount. Long tube refractors where the normal models had short tube refractors which are far easier on the mount and can point higher in the sky because they wont hit the legs like the long ones do (and have set altitude limits in the software). My first ever scope was one of the last silver tube GTs, but a long tube version of the nexstar 80GT, f11 instead of the usual f5, which is better optically, but way too much for the mount, especially the tripod and fully plastic clamshell. They called it a nexstar 80GTL, L for long tube. It was the costco special 2004. And had a special customer support line, staffed with people trained only enough to read the manual, as to not flood the real tech dept with the masses of non astronomers that costco attracts. This brought back memories. Not that i had to fix motor boards, but i did customize the shit out of mine, adding the then expensive baader dovetail bracket, and using a long bolt to attatch the mount to a tasco tripod that was the nexstar 5 equivalent, and using it with a 127mm orion mak. Good times

[@aceace5457]

it is good to see you and getting on with life lol at least your not with that pool cleaner machine again lol 😁

[@ststele]

ok, I LOL'd at this. I updated the description on that video some time ago to describe what a pile of crap it really is. It wound up leaking water inside (like mostly all electronics do) and no longer works. I'm planning a teardown soon... if I can ever make time. It's good to see you here!

[@chrisfeaka4250]

love it! That video finally clicked on diode mode testing and what you are looking for. that was a beaut Jason! Thanks

[@toddk968]

Thinking aloud... Your son uses the computer to control the telescope, I assume it also did not pan left and right under computer control? It sure was nice for the manufacturer to make the motors swappable for troubleshooting. Thanks for the different repair video and welcome back!

[@ststele]

Correct, no pan with computer controls. If the motor board repair had failed, we were going to go straight for replacing it with a standard micro-controller setup (use esp32 or arduino). We may actually be doing that anyways though! Thanks for commenting! :-)

[@xxxxbigdavexxxx]

Nice work Ja, good to see u mate

[@55ATA3]

I'm sure your son will enjoy the telescope, now that he can move it around. Great video, wish more people would stop junking good equipment and take the time to fix it.

[@williambryce8527]

"Prior Wankory"!! I'm going to use that!!

[@pldaniels]

Welcome back @sts telecom . I was worried you had been abducted. . . perhaps you had been, hence the broken telescope.

[@ststele]

That would have been nice. Lol sorry to ignore you! I've ignored all of Facebook for a few months.

[@pldaniels]

@@ststele I'm happy you're still with us - all good :D

[@annierenard5954]

excellent video, thank you

[@damolin77]

Great Job Jason as always love the videos man. Can't wait for the next one hope it's soon your awesome.

[@QsTechService1]

Crazy never got notification ... Wow pretty nice scope Can't wait to see some videos And pictures of some alien air crafts lol

[@ststele]

I wonder if we have it track the space station as it goes over if anyone will have their cheeks pressed to a window mooning earth on the way by. 😂 Probably not.

[@QsTechService1]

@@ststele So cool if you get some video or pictures of it post them can't wait to see ... I always try taking pictures of the moon

[@ronlevin2339]

Please do more "strange" board repair, maybe even an air conditioner ?

[@jwilko7998]

Your sun doesn't need a telescope to Star gaze, he only has to look at his dad!

[@ststele]

Thank you!

[@rf159a]

I wish I could do what you do!! Well done!!!

[@ststele]

Thank you! 🙏

[@stephanc7192]

Great video

[@ststele]

Thank you!

[@cdarting91]

Silence is golden, but duck tape is silver!

[@tammylhinfla]

Very nice

[@Catholicbible_study]

I got an old celestron nexstar model from my father in law. I don’t know when he bought it and it’s sad outside under a porch presumably since then. It doesn’t turn on. Hoping I can figure out what’s wrong..idk where to start

[@dricklorenz9340]

You had me at "Double D" 4:29

[@swoopulater]

knew you could do it lots bigger than your typically used to right? 😄 nice job oh, and that duct tape is just fine, good for 100mph so no worries there 😉

[@ststele]

I wish I was recording when my son walked up to look at it and the plastic cover fell straight off into the floor. Lol the textured/glossy plastic is tape deterrent.

[@swoopulater]

@@ststele oh no, drats, that pesky plastic. well you did say you were going to fix the screw holes so no problemo right? 😄 i've been researching into buying one of those celestron units, i just can't decide on which one to get, refractor or reflector... i see so many different opinions on which is better it's hard to know for sure. Anyways nice job there and thanks for the video's 👍

[@allanmowz]

@@ststele If possible wrap it right around back onto itself. I'm a church av tech... duct tape expert haha.

[@somethingelsehere8089]

@@allanmowz I was going to suggest the same thing!

[@danielcotiga9854]

Ohhhhh yeahhh😄

[@johannesdesloper8434]

HAHAHHAAH backlight no image. Fun.

[@ststele]

Lol yep, the ribbon was torn but the light used separate wires for power.

[@duvanramirez9077]

Hello ,where are you located?

[@TerryLawrence001]

Who knew that you can get duct tape in Celestron grey!

[@PhoneRepairRO]

Jason, ma men! You need to get back on youtube... I dont like to watch your oooold videos again and again!

[@ststele]

yessss... agreed! 👍

[@SidneyCritic]

Will he be watching Stars, or Star-link satellites - lol -.

[@whitestar4431]

Correction: “We’ll be stargazing for nights Jason”. 🙃 👍🏼

[@ststele]

lol yessss... unless we're in some strange part of the world that has twilight days!

[@thatonerepairguy4784]

Tonight at Jason’s house 1am knock knock on door Jason answers the door it’s neighbor in her robe

[@electrosound4595]

You look like beer grills from men vs. wild...

[@ststele]

strange, people normally say I look like the accountant from Parks and Recreation. lol

[@electrosound4595]

@@ststele I am your fan by the way....

[@DhakaGsmTeam]

1st view

[@ststele]

Thank you!! :-)

[@josephking6515]

STS Telecom, so you're a telecom company eh and you have microscopes so I guess you are involved with ET phoning home? 🤷‍♂

[@ststele]

Hey the only difference is the last 3 letters. Telescope - Telecom.. :D

[@josephking6515]

@@ststele Oh silly dishlexick me. 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

[@thatonerepairguy4784]

Omg butthead the one blob you left it ?

[@preston963]

It's a H--Bridge driver IC whhoop de doo you changed it, your a genius!

[@ststele]

*you're* You would want to use apostrophe then re to combine the words you and are. 👍

[@preston963]

@@ststele Hey it's midnight Friday here n I'm pissed (15 schooners of beer) so some slack pls bruz HA!

[@techdoc.repair]

badass!