I broke it....

riptide

I knocked off 2 smd components on my graphics card swapping coolers around. Is there any company or person left in the country that can do microsolder or has the equipment to replace them. They are exceedingly small components. At the least even attach 2 contacts that I can go off and solder up a standard sized resistor to them?

Anti

im sure someone could do it but i have no idea who, or even where you would go to look, you could try and solder it back on yourself if you feel your able to try it.

best of luck with it anyway, and let us know how you got on.

riptide

anti wrote:

im sure someone could do it but i have no idea who, or even where you would go to look, you could try and solder it back on yourself if you feel your able to try it.

best of luck with it anyway, and let us know how you got on.

yep. i just fixed the resistor part myself. Now i have to go and get a few caps and trial and error it tomorrow. Most companies only do volume stuff... so they're no help!

conzy

Ask in the engineering forum or some of the University forums, An electronics student will be able to fix it and or "borrow components" from college:D

riptide

Well, I've been working a fiddling with electronics since I was able to hold a soldering iron. The only reason I was looking for outside help was with specialised tools (holding frames, microsolder tools) that only a company (or college) would possess, would be a bit better. I have repaired the hardest part so far. The next bit is the caps... and thats not too difficult. Caps are cheap so i don't mind buying a few... I'll keep the ones I don't use anyways to make stun guns..

conzy

LOL:D

You can make stun guns from disposable camera flashes too....

I learnt the hard way:D

riptide

conzymaher wrote:

LOL:D

You can make stun guns from disposable camera flashes too....

I learnt the hard way:D

Tell me about it.... I remember dropping a screw on a fully charged flash circuit. The screw blew into a flash of light with a loud crack and was never seen again. Now couple that circuit with a transformer, or some sort of inductance circuit... and I bring you hell

conzy

He he:D

Can caps as small as the ones on video cards shock you?

If so, Charge a bag of them and throw them at someone:D

riptide

conzymaher wrote:

He he:D

Can caps as small as the ones on video cards shock you?

If so, Charge a bag of them and throw them at someone:D

Well the caps in flash cameras are very big.... they have to hold a lot of energy... and they hold it at high voltage.. cos the high voltage is required to set off the lamp. Caps on video cards will be the other side of the scale... (I could be wrong on this but its my understanding_) Hey conzy, whats Kilkenny like for the Cats laughs. Is it expenseve to get into the shows?

conzy

I was never at any of the shows (im only 16)

But its meant to be great craic:)

Its around €25 for most shows, and the good comedians are always in big venues like Langtons......

If you know someone in the know you might get into some shows for free:D

amp

conzymaher wrote:

He he:D

Can caps as small as the ones on video cards shock you?

If so, Charge a bag of them and throw them at someone:D

Yeah! Cap his ass!

riptide

http://www.beststungun.com/streetwise-900000-volts-stun-gun.htmlCap his ass with the streetwise 900k!

conzy

riptide wrote:

http://www.beststungun.com/streetwise-900000-volts-stun-gun.htmlCap his ass with the streetwise 900k!

No, You have to get close to use that.

Cap his ass with 50,000 volts @ 18watts from 15 feet with the AIR TASER GUN M-18

Electrocution aside, hows the GFX card?:)

riptide

conzymaher wrote:

No, You have to get close to use that.

Cap his ass with 50,000 volts @ 18watts from 15 feet with the AIR TASER GUN M-18

Electrocution aside, hows the GFX card?:)

Well... i made the contacts satisfactorily where the cap was missing too... and than I wandered into Maplins with a list of about 10 caps to get... muppets only had 2 on the list... "but we can order them in". needless to say I wasn't able to stay polite and civilized. So I tried the 2 caps i got and no joy... there is a diff in the screen when i join the contacts for a second, but i don't want to do that for no longer than a split second... Me also thinks that even by virtue of the longer travel that a signal has to make through my wire may cause it to fall out of sync. Do you ever notice the traces on a graphics card near the GPU and coming from the ram chips. The traces coming from the farthest are relatively straight, but the ones that are closest and shortest distance from the GPU are all zig zagged. I think this is so that the face of the signal through all the wires reaches the same point at the same time in paralell. Now if my broken parts are from the circuit which handles a high frequency signal, then I could be at nothing using non SMD components that could otherwise be placed on the board, even if I got the correct values on the components.. Just a thought anyways. The good news is I bought another one the other day! i will try and get the broken one fixed still by other means.. but the urgency has somewhat died down...