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micro HDMI may very well be the worst

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mainstream connector on the market it's super compact while still carrying the

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same high quality video signals of its bigger more competent brother but it is

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the very definition of an achilles heel

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this four dollar part four dollars turned a 3

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000 camera into a paperweight and the

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cost to have it repaired by a sony authorized service center

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500 freedom dollars that

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is why today i will be taking matters into my own hands that is why right to

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let's begin with a bit more backstory when i was shooting the sponsored

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ultimate streaming setup video for elgato a little while ago i was struck

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by how much more comfortable that setup was to use compared to my one at home

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and the reason for that is that at home

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i have to crank my key lights up so bright that they're uncomfortable to

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look at in order to get a clean image out of my cheap canon camera which got

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me thinking i'm not about to downgrade to a webcam but if i want a dslr or a

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mirrorless that has outstanding low light performance so i can turn those

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lights down what are my options here's one how about the a7s2 that we already

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own here at the studio but we haven't been using because it's broken

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i mean it's not completely broken i can

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turn it on and wait were we expecting that to happen did it magically start

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working uh this is inconvenient but also i'm happy

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ah okay

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this is one of those situations where it's it's working enough that it knows it's

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supposed to be working now just to demonstrate that it's not

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the cable what is this uh s5

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oh yep there we go confirmed tv works

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cable works actually this is a this is a really important thing to bring up you

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guys might wonder why exactly the fact that the micro HDMI

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port on this camera not working is even a problem for us here in the studio and

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the answer is that while the camera does have a built-in display

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usually in a production environment you'd need a much larger one in order to

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make sure that you're maintaining focus so we'd hook up something like this external monitor from small hd that

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means that every hour this camera's in operation it's got something plugged

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into its micro HDMI port which eventually and we're talking in a matter

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of tens of hours or hundreds of hours not thousands of hours

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it is going to break 50 bucks gets you high quality solder flux and wick with

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the necessary applicators you'll spend anywhere from 25 to 100 depending on how

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baller you want to go for some kind of precision screwdriver set you'll need

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another hundred dollars in change for a soldering iron and a hot air station and

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20 bucks for a mystery 21 ounce water bottle from lttstore.com

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and even after buying all of that stuff you are still going to be out ahead of

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what you would have spent on someone else doing it for you and now you own

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all these tools which is pretty cool honestly the biggest factor for me

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though was that i have nothing to lose if i break it so what i was already

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gonna have to replace it anyway and the only thing i really had to buy was 20

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worth of micro HDMI ports so since this operation can clearly be done

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we actually found a guide on how to do it online though it

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omits the actual soldering because that's a service this person offers and

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his name isn't louis rossman

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i think we can put together the missing pieces here so this is where the

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scripted portion of this video ends and i start disassembling this camera

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wish me luck everybody got an exploded view of the camera right here and i

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talked to callanan who actually used to do a fair bit of this work at his old

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job and he says we are going to go in from the bottom and the back so that is

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where we'll start

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yeah this should be fine let's just see if it's loosened at all

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whoa hi yep look at that

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yep plate came right off wait and oh

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whoa that was exciting moment seems to be

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hampering me a little bit here i think i have to actually take the

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screen off and disconnect the ribbon on this side

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hold on i got this though i got this i'll get this all labeled in a sec

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famous last words

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yep there we go look at that is that a vapor chamber or

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is that just a copper spreader oh wow that's interesting look they're carrying

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heat way up here man i'm stressed i get really warm

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when i work on stuff like this like i don't want to break it

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and i also don't want to not get content out of it

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and i feel like if i break it it's not really a video i can't get it out past

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the sticker you might just have to force it a little there we go would you look at that

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did you just look at that wow it's actually really easy to change

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out the card slot this is as far in as you have to go and

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they've got it on its own daughter board so boom new sd card slot

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just like that because that's something i could see failing a lot too

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everything's under control also this copper shield is off now more

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cooling uh we've got made by micron

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presumably this is dram we've got sony's

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image processor uh wow this folded cable here is looks

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pretty challenging no no that's fine that's fine it's fine

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it's just a sticker calm down brandon calm down you're stressing everybody out

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chill time to start popping out the dozen or

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so ribbon cables all around this main board the good news is that the the

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cable memory should pretty much tell us where they all go back in

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look at that

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easy peasy easy

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more cooling more thermal pads oh wow so i misidentified this i think that i had

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said this looked like the main processor but i actually doubt that now and i had

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also said that maybe this was dram but i doubt that now too because

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this pin pattern looks like dram

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and it sits right under what looks like it might be

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some kind of integrated package i don't know much about the architecture of a

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camera this is all just kind of me making things up as i go so take it

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for what it is and that's it that's the culprit

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right there oh wow it's mangled

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no wonder it's broken the thing is it's not just like the

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resiliency of the pins inside you gotta understand there's a lot of strain on it

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from the weight of the cable and there's just no real getting around that

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okay it's getting real now oh god i did not

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label a thing i'm gonna write pcb question mark i'm pretty sure it is

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sanity check let's make sure we're removing the right thing here we want

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this guy cool right this feels like a lot of heat to be

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putting on this if we're having trouble getting it off we can try adding a

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little bit of flux not too much not that it'll harm

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anything but come on baby one moment please

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i'm starting to feel like this might have been a mistake go

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actually i think it's loosening i think i got it loose on the one side come on

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come on come on come on come on come on hey there we go

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oh my god now we need our soldering iron and our wick

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i named him john so we're just going to pick up all of our extra solder with

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this bad boy i've got most of the through holes

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cleared now i think it's clean

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here's the backside looks pretty good we've got five tries

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at this i have five micro HDMI connectors so here's the plan

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i'm gonna take this guy i'm gonna put it right there

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and all of those need to go exactly on all of those pads so we take this

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and we put some of the solder kind of over these contact points here and kind

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of spread it around a little bit

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that is not good let's just get rid of this again

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you can see there's a giant ball of solder uh across two pins in a couple of

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places here so i did put a little bit too much to grab the extra solder we're

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just going to take our tip which is clean and we're just going to throw some

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flux on there and we're going to try and

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kind of loosen that up and grab it so now basically what we flow it and go for

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it okay let's flux it up baby

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here we go shine for me baby

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this little light of mine

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i'm gonna let it shine

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once it's all silvery we just go for it

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oh god i blew it away oh boy

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okay so we have a slight problem

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when i put the heat

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on the micro HDMI it melts the plastic

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so basically

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i need to heat it up and then instantly

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absolutely nail the placement of this thing

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oh my god go on there hold still

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oh we were close that time it's not that it's off it's that the

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plastic melted and it looked like the back pins were

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on still but it's hard to tell okay all right i give up for today

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oh that is a that's a shame we're back ladies and

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gentlemen and we got solutions kyle from engineering said hey guys you need a hot

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plate well we don't have a hot plate and we don't have time to wait around

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for one so we've got a hot brick

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145 degrees celsius ladies and gentlemen

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we baked that brick like the boss as we are

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now it's time to take another run at this without this giant ground plane

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here sucking up all the heat that we're trying to use to desolder our shiz

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so we'll get our let's get our hot air station we're going to try and pull this

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micro HDMI that we did manage to put on last time but didn't connect fully

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and we're getting up near 100 a hundo

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here we go

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oh oh that's a hot brick yep

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there we go and did it okay it's off again

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oh is it mangled you know what i think this might have

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actually survived andy i think we can take another crack with

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this play do you believe i believe yeah so i guess uh that's a that's a

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pretty big shot to your credibility right there

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the only reason that we're not putting flux on right now by the way is that

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there's already um like an ocean of flux on this thing

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oh i can't do this left-handed i just need to be able to steady my hand

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oh god stop

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it's so sticky so i have a slight problem

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a couple of the pins have bridged

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solder on them yep this one's a fail well this is our last crack at it

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falls oh god i think this is it i think this

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is the moment i need the microscope to know if it's

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lined up it ain't aligned

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see if the goal was to have it perfectly

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in between the pads then hashtag nailed it okay i'm trying to

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pull this off as cleanly as i can here

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because if i bend these pins we're not going to be able to

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put it back on i think i got it

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should i go for gold and try the last connector

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because i think part of the problem is that this one's got some gunk on it it's

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making it hard to get it in place it is lined up

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i'm gonna go check under the microscope i got the sign off from kyle he says

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that it doesn't appear as though what

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is going on here how did this happen one of these ribbons

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is busted shoot

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that is not repairable um unfortunately

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now the question becomes do i need that where does it go i was hoping to put it

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together just a little to see if it fires back up

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and if we can test it before we completely close it up

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oh i'm so upset right now i actually cannot tell

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where this plugs into right now so why don't we just

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leave it for the time being see what happens

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wow this is an absolute nightmare to install

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i don't know how they build these things at the factory the issue is just that there's no way to

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get my fingers in there and apply any force to it whatsoever it's just

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i'm just relying on the stiffness of the

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ribbon to go to push it in but it's not enough oh my god go

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get the f in there i don't understand this

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god my level of pissed off is so high right now

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so if i'm lucky the functions that are not

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connected will be ones that i don't need i would have to get

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extremely lucky for that though

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like we're talking horseshoes up my ass lucky

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i say if we get a signal from the HDMI port we

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we end the video there even though the camera itself is not

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fixed because that was the goal definitely makes me feel better about

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how much cameras cost i did plug in what remains of the ribbons so ow

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it's entirely possible that it is still plugged in okay so no sd card reader but

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everything else should fundamentally be connected

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no life no smoke no sparks but no life so i need

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a new top housing among other things okay well we have to

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call it here for now we'll have to resume once we get some replacement

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parts ordered we're gonna do this

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i'm gonna hate every moment

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oh thank god oh i have to pull the whole thing out

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yeah that's what i thought why do you need to pull that out though

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because it's connected to the main one no

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i have to take it apart even more

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hey there we go okay so i think if we stop at this point

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like filming i can figure out the soldering off

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camera because honestly

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that's gonna be long and boring a few moments later

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all right time to put this back together

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all right before i fully close this out yeah

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we usually would get a oh yeah it works

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everything flickered which is good

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it is now some time later and the saga is finally over

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as it turns out the original board the one that i fixed actually does work it

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just powers off intermittently which might be due to damage from the heat of

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the soldering iron we learned a valuable lesson about preheating your entire

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board before going at it which is great but unfortunately it did cost us a new

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board which was just under 400 us dollars

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that was installed courtesy of this guy

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thanks and we were getting this really weird awful green output so initially we

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thought okay maybe we screwed up a cable or something like that but as it turns

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out the potential need for sony software

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or calibration was a very real need so we ended up needing to send it to a sony

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service center pay about 200 to get our sensor calibrated for this particular

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border rather the board calibrated for this particular sensor and now it works

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absolutely perfectly in fact you already saw me

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enjoy the series where we water cooled a red 8k camera it was quite a bit more

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