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3. 2x3=6, 3x3=9. Flip the 9 180 degrees and make it a 6 also. :-)

@@paulfox89 Loving this outside of the box thinking Paul! Very impressive. Let's see what you can come up with on next week's riddle 🤣👍👍

@@hayleyedwards3676 Well done Hayley ✔ 👍👍👍👍

Zero?

Yes , remember that well , the tape ballooned up , think i commented about it at the time

Yes amazing taught me so much now seems basic

Those bad cables were banned from Amazon a few years ago. They only burned up the charging bricks though, not the devices themselves.

@@jcreazy Actually, they do kill devices. The Google employee I'm talking about had for example fried the power delivery chip of his Chromebook. You are right about the fact that Amazon banned them, but a lot of those cables are still floating around and are even still made and sold by other websites (and also a lot of devices manufactured in China are delivered with bad ones). But even phone companies in the west had bad cables shipped with devices. There are a lot of examples online where a bad usb-c cable damaged a device/chip.

@@glennvanspa apologies, I don't remember all the details.

@@jcreazy no problem! 😉 We are all here to learn.

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I'd buy it

Cheers Victor, I do often skip lunch. Never put it down to a possible lack of food. Nice one 👍👍👍👍

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Likely worse than that. I'm suspecting it's an ASIC made by Dialog Semiconductors and the evil Sony corporation will never allow it to be released. Vince must team up with Louis Rossman and fight for his right to repair!

A little reverse engineering will determine whether it is custom or just a proprietary part number that can be swapped with a different chip. Power management chips are abundant.

Doubtful.

Why would splitting the power between 2 controllers short anything? They would both receive 5 volts.

@@jcreazy It’s because they use a jumper wire to jump the power connection from one USB plug to the other with no circuit in between the two it’s literally one USB port wired to two other USB ports with no circuit

Please tell us the name brands and where you found them, Amazon?

@@johnDingoFoxVelocity From the way i am reading your description that looks the same as the normal ring main in every English home , it leaves the fuse box , goes to the first wall socket then on to the next and the next and eventually back to the fuse box so that the current is drawn from both directions

@@johnDingoFoxVelocity so if you were to take 1 5V power supply, and wire the 5V output to two USB Type C connectors, it would cause problems if both type c connectors are plugged in at the same time i still dont see how that could cause problems

Maybe he is more of a tea guy, but green tea does this to me more than coffee.

These are likely from amazon warehouse returns, people buy returns by the case, filter out the stuff that works or is simple to fix (bad usb cable or whatnot, then sell things like this on ebay as unworking/for parts.

@@mistwolf Yes, fair enough. But they could return to Sony, receive a working one, and then sell for more money. I bought one from Amazon warehouse which was in “like new” condition. Was £37. When I opened the box it was filthy and a spring had broke in the R2 button. Looked like the previous owner had done the old switcheroo and even had the nerve to write “new” on the bottom of the box. I was able to exchange it with Sony. The replacement looked brand new.

@Tzivya That said, I doubt they would replace one with a physically damaged analogue stick, where it’s probably been launched across the room.

@@andysmoore Sometimes it is easier to just return it where you bought it, especially as Amazon will cross ship returns. I dunno how Sony's procedure works, granted, but in my experience it is almost always faster to return to vendor than manufacturers.

Why years? Wouldn’t take much effort to reverse engineer by comparing pins on a working set with other power management chips with the same number of pins.

@@charlesmurphy1510 I don't disagree with you on reverse engineering. That thought also crossed my mind with consideration towards finding a suitable substitute. However, if an off brand semiconductor has to be manufactured then that timeframe I feel will increase significantly. What do I know though. Cheers!

@@HavingFunRepairs right, if manufacturing is required. I’ve been working in electronics for over thirty years and I noticed that most large companies, in order to save money, use products that have been around awhile they may relabel them with an obscure part number but it is basically the same product anyone can buy. Computer companies during the seventies and eighties did this all the time. The only exception to this is specially made or custom components such as micro processors which are tailored by flashing to their specifications. ICs like power management chips have been around for some time and therefore no need for remanufacturing them. A simple check of inputs and outputs will determine compatibility with other ICs. Relabelling components or scrubbing numbers (a method favoured by the Chinese) is an old trick to insure proprietary rights. I’ve been there.

@@charlesmurphy1510 congrats on 30 years mate. Almost at 20 myself, but more towards RF side of the electronics industry. I don't have a PS5 myself. Cannot seem to bring myself towards a cost benefit for purchasing. However, I would be interested in identifying the pinout of the PMIC, if I did have a controller to poke around on. I do concur with you and agree with the strong potential that it's a relabeled common item. However, instead of stating it I think proofing and showing would yield a much greater benefit to the community. I have not done either so I'd rather not personally speculate on this potential and lead someone down an incorrect path. Even if the pinout are similar to another component, other things such as VCC and Cur tolerance may not be the same "at a glance". I could be wrong, but if it were me, it would be trial and error before stating a substitute is a definitive.

@@charlesmurphy1510 a member by the name of Rob reach out to the company. His inquiry and this repair video has been featured in Louis Rossmann's "The myth & fallacy that one brand is the problem" video, dated 14 May. The answer is around the 02:06 mark regarding suitable substitute verses proprietary IC. Rob, thank you for the leg work mate!

Also in the manual: Input power rating 5 VDC 1,500 mA

Think on some of his other videos he does list t e equipment , have an idea its a Sony

i think you meant 720..

Hey James, the right hand controller at 6:14 was the one with the bad stick, so everything else worked on that one. It was the left hand one that wouldn't power on. Cheers 👍👍👍

Yes a short circuit. One side of a capacitor will be grounded and the other is not. If both sides are grounded, that means there is a short to ground, basically power isn't going where it's supposed to.