SNES Jr Capacitor and Voltage Regulator Replacement

Описание

First of two videos on my SNES Jr modding project. This first one is demonstrating teardown, capacitor replacement, and voltage regulator replacement.

SNES Tech Wiki with Capacitor Parts Lists and Maps from Console5 (be sure to use the one for the correct SNES motherboard/revision you have): https://wiki.console5.com/wiki/SNES

SNES Jr. Capacitor Kit I used: https://console5.com/store/nintendo-snes-mini-cap-kit-snn-models-snes-2.html

None of these are sponsor or affiliate links.

## Table of Contents ##
0:00 - Intro
0:14 - Description of planned work
0:34 - Tools
1:58 - Teardown/disassembly
6:06 - Dealing with the heat sink
7:37 - Reasoning behinf replacing voltage regulator
7:49 - Capacitor desoldering prep
9:57 - Desoldering old capacitors
22:23 - Soldering new capacitors into place
27:52 - Desoldering old 7805 regulator with manual pump (fail)
29:00 - Desoldering 7805 with Hakko FR-301
29:54 - How NOT to align the new regulator
30:37 - Properly aligning the new regulator
34:24 - Soldering in the new 78S05 regulator
35:59 - PSA about eye safety w/ flush cuts
36:13 - Re-removing heat-sink to prep for RGB mod