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seaneyb2003
26-11-2003, 14:00
hey in a week or so im gonna solder in a mod chip for my old ps1 gonna be fun i need a check list of things to get
what tools will i need?
and can someone give me some tips specially u installers out there?
Thanks
Seaneyb
TylerDurden
26-11-2003, 14:41
I recommend these tools but not all are necessarily needed:
Flux (liquid or paste)
Fiberglass pen (removes laquer off the little pads)
Soldering pen
Wooden tablet to solder on
Nail Clippers (clip off extra long wire tips)
Solder
Philips Screwdriver
Precision Philips screwdriver
oh and if its your first time get a bunch of bananas. The potassium will steady your hands.
Tyler!
spedmetal
26-11-2003, 18:43
Originally posted by TylerDurden
oh and if its your first time get a bunch of bananas. The potassium will steady your hands.
Huh? is that true. I just have a few beers. HAHA j/k
Oh also I would recommend the solder paste over the liquid as the paste is more manageable. The liquid gets all over everything and harder to apply to just what you want. Use a x-acto knife or a tooth pick with the paste. With the PSX chips you will have a easy go of things and if the mod doesn't come with its own wire (which most PSX chips come with wire and solder) use 30 AWG kynar wire for everything. No need for 22 AWG for power and ground with a PSX chip. You shouldn't need the fiberglass pen for the psx mobo either but if you do need to scrap some just use a nice new x-acto blade very lightly. A 15 watt iron is all you should need with the smallest point you can find. Radio shack has a good 15 watt iron and different tips you can buy. Good luck and let us know how it goes.
TylerDurden
26-11-2003, 18:54
Yep its true. Its what surgeons use too before an operation. Ask around youll be suprised.
Although I dont recommend the beer till after your done doing the install.
Tyler!
spedmetal
26-11-2003, 18:56
yeah I was just playing around with that. But I will have to try that bannana trick out.
TylerDurden
26-11-2003, 19:01
Oh crap I didnt even notice he said PS1! Dude those are easy. I even used telephone wire to wire those suckers up. Ive done tons of ps1s.
This shoulda been in the ps1 section.
Anyways about the liquid solder, I just dip the wire tips in it and solder to them. Or I use the wire tips themselves to brush on the very fine liquid. Never had a problem yet.
Tyler!
wow how dose the solder paste work is it gooey and u just stick it on a point and solder ? to harden it when i try a ps2 i used the normal solder and its a job trying to solder on what u want to solder to cause it only turns liquid when hot
spedmetal
26-11-2003, 20:25
no no no..... solder paste doesn't work like that. It just helps to clean the point you are soldering to while you apply the iron and solder. It helps to make a good clean bond with the wire the solder and the point being soldered to. Its also known as flux. Most solder has flux or rosin in its core but as anyone that has done an install before knows your not really applying the solder to the point your soldering at the same time your heating the point with your iron, you just put a little bit of solder on the tip of the iron thus the rosin core solder doesn't work the way it would under normal soldering conditions. This is why solder paste/liquid flux is helpful.
o i thought it was a easier way to solder :( hey seaneyb2003 when u get ur chip could u tell me what kind of chip u bought and digrams for that chip i want to buy a chip for my ps1 so i dont have to use the boot cd no more last time i did a chip i could not get it to work there was so many dif digrams so i tryed them all none worked but i did a install frist time on a ps1 unit with a chip that was gave to me worked perfect but i only had 1 good ps1 install all rest failed and killed the ps1 unit
spedmetal
26-11-2003, 22:03
maybe this thread should be moved?
seaneyb2003
27-11-2003, 07:31
hey dude yea i put it in here caus no one replys lol.
Evo i tell u 1 minute after i mod it ok looks well easy!
Anyone give me some soldering tips?
oh and website's or shops in the uk im gonna try out maplins in slough (near me) they got a 15w soldering iron for 3 quid gotta see if i can get a 0.12 mm nib for it i dont think the antex ones will work on it
TylerDurden
27-11-2003, 08:29
The best and really only soldering tip is to practice on an old dead motherboard or electronical device.
Tyler!
my prob i could not find the right digrams i found 5 dif dirgrams that said was for that chip. none matched the first unit i modded it was ez to do but the other times i bought 2 chips and could not get eather to work. the peps i bought from didnt have any good digrams so that relly threw me off ur ps1 is a mini right ?
seaneyb2003
27-11-2003, 23:58
Originally posted by EVOEvo
ur ps1 is a mini right ?
nope old big style 7502
TylerDurden
28-11-2003, 09:27
You really shouldnt have any probs man. PS1's are easy.
Tyler!
o u have the old ones i got me a mini ps1 with screen and car kit i will look around i could prob find a chip for it some were but this time im makeing sure they got good digrams b4 buying the chip
seaneyb2003
30-11-2003, 00:39
Originally posted by EVOEvo
o u have the old ones i got me a mini ps1 with screen and car kit i will look around i could prob find a chip for it some were but this time im makeing sure they got good digrams b4 buying the chip
hey i tell you what go to www.kanection.co.uk and look at there mod diagrams there wicked
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