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Which Condensator must be removed?

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 11:46 am
by Lambatz
Finaly the TFT got deliverd after one month of waiting and everything fit perfectly for Gameboy Zero but the TFT got a other mainboard

There are two Kondensators with 4 legs on each side but which one do i have to remove??

I'm happy to get some usefull answers! :)

Re: Which Condensator must be removed?

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 1:43 pm
by myPiZero
Look at the chip on the left side, measure the pins voltages when you power the board from 12V. One of them should be 5V. Then shorten the input voltage to that pin.

Re: Which Condensator must be removed?

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 12:59 am
by Fleder
Lambatz wrote:Finaly the TFT got deliverd after one month of waiting and everything fit perfectly for Gameboy Zero but the TFT got a other mainboard

There are two Kondensators with 4 legs on each side but which one do i have to remove??

I'm happy to get some usefull answers! :)
Hi, with "Kondensator" you surely mean capacitor. But those are not capacitors. Those are voltage regulators.
You have to remove or short the pin of one of those 8 legged ICs that do the job of regulating the voltage (step-down/step-up).
If you would remove an actual capacitor (Kondensator) from your board, the screen would stop working.

Since i haven't seen this board before, i am not 100% sure but it should be the second leg of the 8 legged IC without any label.
You start counting on the leg near the dot on it, if the dot is on the lower left corner.
It should work if you solder on a bridging wire from your V+ (red) to the second leg on this IC.
Now another problem arises. Your connector looks like you only have 2 pins, or have you already desoldered the connector?
Are those 4 soldering pads your old connector? If so, you have to measure which was V+, GND, V1 and V2.

Solder on a wire from the second leg to V+ and try it again with a 5v power source.
But before you do that, make sure the board works without any modifications and 12v.

Again, there is no guarantee that this works and i will take no response if you fry anything!

Re: Which Condensator must be removed?

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 2:31 am
by Lambatz
Time had told ^^
I soldered two short cords and tried each leg. In this point of view the upper right leg of each one is GND and then i conected a monitor and looked when it worked.

When i conected it like in the picture i got a nice screen.
In the picture black/gray is GND and red/orange is 5V, yellow is for video.
I got two video-pads on the board so i conected them to keep it simple :)

But thanks for your fast and dsetailed answers :)