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Title: Isolating wifi switch from ground
Post by: bustinthejustin on March 14, 2009, 08:35:51 AM
How do u do it?jumbo said to desolder wifi switch, briidge wifi points on mobo, put tape over the mobo, and just us the wifi switch like any old switch and then just glue it back. Does this work?
Title: Re: Isolating wifi switch from ground
Post by: EvoL on March 14, 2009, 09:27:32 AM
yup but its hard if you dont have the right tools especialy on the slim use an exacto knife and yes it works pretty well i always use this to change modes on the chips bought off lacozte
Title: Re: Isolating wifi switch from ground
Post by: Jumbo on March 14, 2009, 09:33:15 AM
Its actually really simple to do..
Title: Re: Isolating wifi switch from ground
Post by: j.s2ghetto on March 14, 2009, 10:44:26 AM
IF BIG IF your having trouble taking of that tiny switch get some desoldering braid or a vacum but it shouldn't be to hard just be careful
Title: Re: Isolating wifi switch from ground
Post by: rgarjr on March 14, 2009, 11:57:43 AM
I was just playing (attempting)  with that concept with my phat.  It's a bit hard to heat up the solder and move those tiny legs up.  Its a pain in the ass trying to fit some tools around there.  The room is just really tight to maneuver around.  Now if the switch was out in the open it would be simple. 

But yeah you can simply just isolate the ground from the common leg (center leg), then just ground the pad that enables the wifi. 
Title: Re: Isolating wifi switch from ground
Post by: EvoL on March 14, 2009, 01:49:01 PM
On the fat you don't need to waste so much time removing the switch you could just Cut the traces linking to the switch's ground after just link the together with a piece of wire.  :w00t:
Title: Re: Isolating wifi switch from ground
Post by: bustinthejustin on March 14, 2009, 06:15:45 PM
Hmm will it take a while to heat the solder enough to take it off? Could I overheat anything?
Title: Re: Isolating wifi switch from ground
Post by: rgarjr on March 14, 2009, 07:50:31 PM
The solder will melt right away.  The downfall with this is u run the risk of lifting up the pads and ruining that mobo section there.  That's why I guess this isn't a common thing guys do.
Title: Re: Isolating wifi switch from ground
Post by: bustinthejustin on March 14, 2009, 11:17:31 PM
okay thanks. so basically i gotta be careful and dont heat it up too much. ill try this once i get all my parts and stuff. thanks everyone! :tup:
Title: Re: Isolating wifi switch from ground
Post by: rgarjr on March 19, 2009, 02:43:50 PM
Took a close up pic on a phat WLAN switch and you can see the center pin is the ground, which is a big ground plane.  The bottom one goes to enable WLAN and the top is floating i guess. 

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