How To Fix | Episode 2: Bad NEC/TOKINs

This video is sponsored by JLCPCB. https://jlcpcb.com/?from=ripfelix 🎮 Is your PlayStation 3 silently dying on the shelf? It might be a ticking time bomb! In this condensed video, I show a common causes of the Yellow Light of Death (YLOD) — and what PS3’s might have nothing to do with the GPU. From the “Great Tokin Massacre” of 2020 to my very own PS3 Tantalizer, this is the full story behind a capacitor ahead of its time... and doomed by it. The NEC/TOKIN Proadlizer. 🔧 I’ll walk you through: Why Proadlizers fail with *time*, not just use How I reverse-engineered their broadband performance The engineering behind the PS3 Tantalizer: a drop-in replacement What Sony quietly did in later models 2 years of community tests This isn’t a mod. This is a fix. The PS3 Tantalizer v1.0 officially goes public. 👇 Download the files: GitHub: [https://github.com/RIP-Felix/PS3-Tant...] Would you like to know More? 🎥 A PS3 Story - The YLOD A PS3 Story: The Yellow Light Of Death 🎥 A 360 Story - They Both Lost A 360 Story - The RED Ring of Death & the... 🎥 Diagnose the YLOD - SYSCON Tutorial PS3 SYSCON Tutorial | How to Diagnose the ... In this video I evaluate Squeept's Hieroglyphic Carving technique for removing the NEC/Tokin capacitors (proadlizers, technically). While I do like this method the best personally, because it's fast and easy, it did have a learning curve and I destroyed some traces mastering it. This video will show you the method and the issues I had with it so you can decide if it's the right method for you to employ. If you do choose to use this method, here's the list of tools (affiliate links). PS3 Tantalizers (https://amzn.to/3Ucn5Ei) Exacto Knife set: https://amzn.to/3HFv4DG #18 Chisel Blades: https://amzn.to/3HFMxfk Jeweler's Hammer: https://amzn.to/45WdfKF Flux (STIRRI ASM-TF): https://amzn.to/43JnJeZ Solder (Kester 44): https://amzn.to/3SSOHuA Solder Wick (MG Chemicals Superwick): https://amzn.to/4jRJaPN Soldering Iron | FNIRSI DWS-200: https://amzn.to/4lK3MLf Microfiber Cloths (for cleaning flux): https://amzn.to/4l5uu0p Isopropyl Alcohol (Cleaning Flux): https://amzn.to/3HATqyC PS3 Disassembly | T6-30 Torx Security Bit set (https://amzn.to/4fneAfg) SYSCON UART | 3.3v USB-to-TTL Serial Cable (https://amzn.to/3YohDN3) Breadboard Jumper Wires | Male to Female (https://amzn.to/3A2Rvzu) Wire Stripper | 20-30 AWG (https://amzn.to/3Us6QjT) For Motherboard Brace | M4 Brass Standoffs (https://amzn.to/3O2fGBv) For Motherboard Brace | M4 Knurled Thumb Screws (https://amzn.to/3ArDLOC) Licensed Music: 8bit Dungeon Boss - Video Classica by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... "Digital Requiem" and "Pixelated Destruction" by RIP-Felix were generated using SUNO AI (Paid License). These songs were created under an active Pro subscription, which grants full commercial rights. I hold the rights to use, modify, and distribute these tracks, per Suno's Terms of Service: https://www.suno.ai/terms. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:52 Sponsor 2:11 YLOD & The Tokin Massacre of 2020 5:02 Hieroglyphic Carving Technique of Removing Tokins 6:01 What's a Proadlizer? 9:30 Tokin Time Bomb? 11:35 How to Replace them 15:28 PS3 Tantalizer v1.0 16:02 Outro