Recent content by gndl00p

Looks like the main area damaged was around U3890 the T29 15v Boost reg. ISL and SMC are clean

Sorry I did not see any signs of actual damage. Customer just reported they spilled water on the keyboard and afterwards it did not function.

Here is a flir of the board running. The board is in a loop on off on off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_zArZjWmNE

820-3115 Ultrasonic cleaned, system powers up fan on, hard drive attempts to spin up over and over in sync with the power light, the AC amperes goes from ~0.1A to 0.3A and swings in sync with the power light. New to macbook board repair and would really appreciate giving me a starting point...

I am having some issues doing these (guessing on the terminology please correct me) through-hole flex cable to PCB joints like those found on an ipad mini charge port or ipad pro display cable. I looked in my IPC 7711,7721 book and didn't see any joints like this so I was wondering, 1. What is...

Last question. You see the semi auto $6k-25k that do just about everything and have the really neat optical alignment tools and then you have the simple infrared systems that just follow a heating profile and leave the rest to you. Are the simple IR stations just as capable of reliably...

So what situations would you actually use those for?

I have watched Louis' video over Should I buy a BGA machine. However, I have a VERY large amount of iphone 6/6s/6+/6s+ touch IC failure and power IC failure coming to my shop. I am out in the west texas oilfields where people can be rough on gear. I have ran the numbers and it seems economically...