About my tools.....

hello so we're back and this time with an important video so this video is about my tools people request this video so I'm going to go for every tool I'm using and also I will tell you if I will buy that tool again or not so this is where the magic happen this is My Sanctuary here the laptops are usually fixed now I didn't prepare the for this video so that's how normally my desk is looking now the first tool on the list is my multimeter 882e now this multimeter you remember we have a video with this multimeter when I bought it and actually the Transformer was not in place when the when the multimeter arrived now the multimeter I'm quite happy with the multimeter uh it is is fast it is working with the computer I have no problems but one minus big minus on this multimeter is the diode mode I cannot use the diod mode it's pretty confusing it's giving me like two different voltage and I don't know why if I will buy it again not sure I'm happy with the refresh rate but because of the diod mode uh probably I will look for something else now the next next one on the list is the hot air at 10 St a62 D now with the hot air you remember I made a video initially I wasn't happy because uh you don't have a air pump inside you have a turbine but after I use it for a while uh I am happy with with the hot air and probably if I'll be to buy again probably I'll buy the same a big minus with this hot air is uh actually the plastic tube is very rigid and uh it took me a while to get used to it down the next one on the list is the power supply now this is a analog cheap power supply linear power supply now if you ask me 100 times if I will choose to buy exactly the same power supply I will buy exactly the same like how I said many times a linear power supply compared with a switching one it's it's quite a big of difference because we are using the power supply to diagnose boards and when I'm looking to diagnose a board I'm looking for the power supply Behavior a linear power supply it to tell me a lot more compared with a switching one also I do love the internal high resistance of a linear power supply which sometimes can uh be forgetful now many people ask sorry but what about your laptop uh tips how they are connected to the power supply and you can see here with two wires minus and plus we have minus and plus only when we are going back to the desk I will show you the the entire setup now the next and least is the solder iron now I will be honest with you someone sent me like a present this uh soldering station and solder iron it's a Weller WD 2m now if you are looking to buy the same probably I don't know if if I will buy the same probably I will buy the single one so here you can connect two different solar irons like soar iron and soaring tweezer but usually I'm working with one solar iron so probably with one end it'll be cheaper and uh it will fit better for what I'm doing now as I said this was a present if I will be to buy again probably not and not because it's not good it is good but I burn my uh laptop battery analyzer three times with this solar iron so if the analyzer is connected to the computer and I'm soldering with the solar iron I will see a spark and that's not okay from a solar iron it is a heavy box so I'm assuming it's a Transformer but somehow it is connected with the mze probably using a capacitor or something to discharge the electrostatic charges maybe for some people this is a plus but for me it is a big minus so uh probably I'll not buy it again probably I'll buy something else but with a linear Transformer and that's very important because you want like perfect separation from the mains now I seen people ask about uh my camera my top camera it's a Sony Alpha 6,400 it is a gray camera gray camera is a camera which you can power on and how you have no issue you don't have to adjust anything and it's just working I am happy with this camera and probably if I will be to buy it again I definitely buy the same camera again has a big sensor which is a big plus for like if you don't have that much light now the microscope the microscope is arms scope microscope it's a optical microscope if you are not like a YouTuber you don't need to buy with a with a f end the one with the camera and I will not speak about this so if you're a YouTuber or you are looking to record videos definitely I will recommend to check my video with the camera review and the one with the with the focus ring behind of the camera but otherwise for like a normal user all you need is like Optical arm scope uh microscope I know there are people they prefer digital I prefer uh Optical microscope you can never ever compare the quality of a optical microscope with a digital digital one so if you are looking for something good Optical microscope and uh if it happens like for you to like wear glasses you can adjust those things here and uh actually you don't need glasses when you're using the microscope now for what I'm doing the live system you don't need something like that yeah so if you're doing videos yeah it is making sense but otherwise this thingy is not really making sense if you don't record you can use like a normal light light ring on the microscope and if you have like Reflections or glare that's not a problem because the eye has a very high dynamic range so it will not be a problem just to use like a normal light ring but if you reord the light ring I have here this is a ling with uh polarizer inside it is helpful if you have a if you have a better camera I mean this is a 4k camera 60 FPS but the pixel size is quite small so it is fine good picture quality but need a lot of light when you need a lot of light you can't really use a polarized ring so when it's about recording you really need a lot of light so I'm using both both are on the light ring from here and this one which will modify I have a video with those things uh I took out the LEDs and I replaced them with some uh Nikia high performance LED this they are getting extremely hot you can't even touch them when after a while but again if you don't record you don't need something like that so if you buy D scope microscope you will find the arm of the microscope on the website so you can get the arm if you want but otherwise I'm happy with the microscope if I will be to buy again I will buy exactly the same thing again whatever I have here now I took out the cable which I'm using uh uh during the lapto repairs so that's how you connect the the cable to the power supply you have two wires plus and minus so what is here it's a USB extender and all what you use is red and black now if you check this cable which is USBC you can see so this is a USBC cable on the other end you have only two wires two pins you have plus and minus because the charger ID pin is taking care here inside so all you have here is plus and minus where you can find this cable on the description on my Amazon list yeah there you have from where you can buy the cable and here are uh are the end connectors and all they have only two two pins plus and minus if I will be to buy it again I'll buy it yeah definitely but you must have in mind some connectors like uh like the Lenovo it's working like usually on lovos but not on the gaming was or the Dell yeah it is working on some models usually the simple models but you know the ones they have usually a dedicated GPU chip this connector is not working it will say in the power adapter cannot be identified now one thing what I'm sorry and uh probably I'll do it uh I'm sorry because I'm using this adapter so this cable with this cable has quite a high resistance and when you try to draw a lot of amps uh usually I have high resistance on the wires let me show you what I mean okay so I connect the cable back to the power supply let's let's say we have 19 volts and let's short the cable yeah just to see the internal res resistance and you can see uh I have on the other side I have like 1.8 volts which is a lot 1.8 volts left I lose like 1.8 volts on this cable uh with 4 point something amps so I wish I don't know maybe I should do it uh cut this cable and use red and black from this cable but then then it's too short kind of short so uh yeah replace the cable with another one this is very flexible you replace with a better cable is not that flexible so I will leave it like that for the moment but this is a important tool because you have to see what is happening with the current when you try to diagnose a laptop you want to see what the laptop is doing if you don't have this tool you can't see what the laptop is doing it's taking power it's not taking power how much it's taking it is sensing the power button the E chip is reading the power button so those things you find them with uh with this tool now my other tool USBC I bought this one and uh I use it for a while is supporting PD 3.1 but I'm not very happy I'm not very happy because you know what if the if the end of the USBC will be here and I can use only one cable I will be happy and I will use it but just because you need two cables and kind of chunky you know I don't really like it my other one which I'm working with this one this one is going only to pd3.0 but this is very simple to work with you just plug the USBC plug into the laptop and and that's all on this one I crack the screen but I order another one so in the future you will see me working with something like that of course except the case where actually I need the PD 3.1 you remember for the D XPS boards to start the board without the battery now my other important tool and I consider this as being an important tool is the miniware screwdriver not sure if I have a link from where you can buy it on my Amazon but you should have a look I don't know probably AliExpress you can find it's quite expensive probably it's 80 to 100 I believe not sure about that I got it for a review if you remember and I want to thank you to miniware for that and from that point I just using it it's it's proper good now the other tips on the hot air I do have those Bend tips but I never use them I try to use them but it's not very practical because you never know the position of the of the nozle so I still prefer the straight ones I sold in tools I'm using the soldering rosin good quality rosin double uh rosin core uh 180° solder wire xrade liquid rossin and solder in paste 140° all of these you can find them on the link on description on my eBay and United States eBay my other tools I have the esvo programmer uh with a z connector you know what this even now I haven't took my money out from this so if I will be to buy it probably I'll not buy it uh I I'm starting avoiding taking easy chip repairs because if it's a genuine job I will tell you experience with I have it like in the last days if it's a genuine repair yeah if it's a genuine repair let's say Okay laptop died because why that's that's important why the laptop died okay it's a Lenovo and the charger port got broken and the middle pin tou to plus okay so I know the E replacing the E chip that laptop it will work so it's worth to waste the time but I I have a lot of emails like I replace the screen and now the laptop is not coming on and clearly the AC chip is done but the question is it's only the E chip what about the chipset because usually you know even the chipset can die or together like the AC CH and the chipset so you see a job like that probably I will avoid if you have a lot of time yes so here are different kind of people if you have time or it's a hobby yeah you can take any repair but trying to stay efficient I can't I can't take a job like that because I'm not sure about I'm not because I can work and end up with nothing so if I replace the AC chip and and I programmed the AC chip and it's not working I lost the time few days ago I some customer sent me the laptop to replace the AC chip and uh I really wanted to help that customer so the AC chip died was shorted because uh they tried to replace the screen without disconnecting the battery so I will tell you the main issue here I replace the E chip the customer sent me the EC chip I replaced the EC chip uh everything was looking fine with the USBC I can see 20 volts but I could not program the chip and that's the moment yeah that's the moment when you are just sitting like that and you ask yourself uh is something wrong with my programmer or maybe my cable because was it 52 5152 I believe and I had to program by the keyboard connector then you ask yourself what about maybe maybe is the chipset maybe it's the motherboard or is something else on the motherboard or maybe it's the easy chip which is partial faulty so just to understand the feeling I had so I have to give back that job like how it is and I said you know what I'm sorry I can't fix it just because you have so many variables and uh is not much what you can do I mean I don't know if the programmer is something with the programmer with the cable or the board or the easy chip or the chipset so I could not do it no the the programmer was not speaking with act for some reason now the support on this V is very poor also yeah so I do have I did have a problem before and I said that on the video and someone from their their support is only on Telegram and another YouTuber gave me a idea you know what sorry and just sold there a memory and Sh something somewhere and yeah I was able to program uh was was the same like I it chip I'm just saying I'm just saying so my advice if you are like a business or person is fixing stuff probably I will avoid something like that probably I will focus on replacing the EC chips uh with the easy chips which they are getting programing itself yeah so I think on our Discord we have a list with easy chips which they are getting program so that kind of easy chip you replace it with a blank one and it will program yourself from the BIOS the BIOS programmer the BIOS programmer Revel PR I really love this tool so if I will be to buy it again definitely I will buy exactly the same one I'm very happy with this programmer I had no issue I can do a lot of things change the current change the voltage uh nothing uh nothing wrong to say with regarding with this programmer now other things Pogo pins yeah Pogo pins I'm very happy with the Pogo pins pins you remember when I bought them I wor them from AliExpress I believe so those are the the Pogo pins I have them so you can program a chip the SMD chips without actually uh desoldering the chip it is working not always so I found okay I'm trying it give me like errors when I'm trying to check uh with the buffer and uh you you can you can have a case where actually you plug the charger we plug the battery on that board and that board supplying power to the BIOS chip and you can you are able to read that bio chip now this those thingies I'm sorry I bought them I never use them yeah never use them because I always uh 99% of the cases I'm dealing with reading the chip straight from the motherboard I can supply with this one up to 200 milliamps does mean even if the AC chip is connected on the BIOS power bio power rail I can supply power now if you are looking for a chip programmer you can buy the ch341 so I work with this uh compatibility wise I had no issue at all so they were like every time you don't have to modify I know there are a lot of story modifying you don't have just use it how it is then you have the 1.8 volts adapter so you can program 1.8 volts bios chips but this is insanely slow yeah so if I will be to buy again definitely not just because it's very very slow now the next tool is the nlba battery laptop analyzer now this is a sensitive tool and when I'm saying sensitive is some people if you run a business it is worth to buy something like that otherwise like a hobbyist uh this is quite expensive but fantastic tool on repairing batteries yeah repairing unlocking yeah this definitely it's worth if you have a a shop or a computer business now the last item is the thermal camera this is fantastic this I will buy like 10 times I mean it's so helpful and you know just it's giving you opport to work with low currents yes so like okay so the board is taking like what 40 milliamps with 40 milliamps you cannot feel anything so you have two options to risk and raise the current but obviously if you can raise the current because you know maybe you have to raise the voltage in order to raise the current and you see it's kind of risky but with low current I can uh I can easily spot uh any problem and you can see see the resolution is fantastic I mean really really nice uh uh nice camera I have nothing wrong to say about this camera I have no issues no problem at all one advice I can give you and I'm really sorry I didn't make a video uh you can open this camera you see this Frame is coming out then you have few screws behind then you have like one screw probably here somewhere here uh you can open and move the focus ring so you can uh change the focus range so you can focus from close you can do that that's what I did with uh with my one HTI HT h8 I'm pretty sure there is nothing better on the market right now I mean affordable I mean kind of you know affordable is a it's a tricky word depends what affordable means but I think this now is like a about 8800 if I remember let me check on eBay okay it looks like currently it's not available on uh on Amazon but it is available on AliExpress well actually it's cheaper LOL I can't believe so actually the price of this camera now is 674 so why this is 600 and this one it's 00 is the same right anyway there you have it this is a pretty good thermal camera okay so that's being said those are my tools uh which I'm using them and tools are important now if you think about the money when you are buying tools and you think tools are expensive uh tools it will always pay itself so even if you pay a little bit of money on the thermal camera or on the hot air it will pay itself so I'm going to stop here I will say thank you for watching you know just like subscribe if you like the video if you have any question please leave me a comment yeah leave a comment and I will answer to that comment so see you on the next one bye

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Published: Mon May 13 2024