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Title: Internal camera soldering problem
Post by: ancoolguy on December 15, 2012, 12:39:22 PM

Hi, i'm trying to do the internal Go! Cam mod on my psp 1000. The problem is when i tried soldering the 5 wires to the small mini usb pins (on the camera) i accidentally soldered two pins together and while trying to desolder, both of the pins popped out. I was a little too careless and they got bent quite a bit, and its hard to get them back in without bending them even more. So my question is, can i solder directly to the camera ribbon? or is there an easier way?

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Title: Re: Internal camera soldering problem
Post by: 3D0kassiah on December 15, 2012, 01:19:03 PM

ypu can try and scrape the ribbon with an xacto knife or something to expose the trace then from there you can try and attach a wire think 30awg should be good

Title: Re: Internal camera soldering problem
Post by: ancoolguy on December 15, 2012, 02:35:52 PM

Quote from: 3D0 on December 15, 2012, 01:19:03 PM

ypu can try and scrape the ribbon with an xacto knife or something to expose the trace then from there you can try and attach a wire think 30awg should be good

But how would i go about scraping where the 5 mini usb pins connect to the ribbon? i was supposed to solder a wire to each of the 5 pins, do i have to scrape 5 individual really small scratches on the rectangular hole in the middle and solder 5 wires to each? also do i scrape the brightest copper or where it's darker? yeah i'm kind of a noob.

Title: Re: Internal camera soldering problem
Post by: 3D0kassiah on December 15, 2012, 03:01:28 PM

just follow each trace that you need to solder and scrape it there to expose the trace and yes if u completely destroyed it you have to go one by one
should be more careful next time taking your time saves you alot of headaches

example:
--------------(destroyed pad)
so you would
------(expose trace here)----(destroyed pad)
solder to where it says expose trace here and run your wires for each line that you messed up its not an easy thing to repair because its a ribbon and theres not alternate point but with time and patience it can be done