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To sum up the situation - I'm going to have my uncle solder a Crystal Chip 2.0 Pro to my version 4 PS2. We opened it up today and he had a look to see if the task was within his ability. We were both a little shocked to find that the actual size of the board in the PS2 was really small.
His tools were intended for working with boards scaled to be a tad larger, and we're trying to figure out what we'd need to do the job.
If anyone knows specific tools that can get the job done, I am looking for the following:
A soldering iron (15 watt) - but what size would be fitting? If allowed a link would help.
The wires - 22 AWG / 30 AWG I read are of the correct size, if you think differently let me know.
The solder material itself - would it need to be of a specific size? The kinds that he showed me looked as if they'd easily bleed into other areas where you wouldn't want the solder getting into.
One other side-question as well: We compared the writings on one of the chips for a V4 PS2 in the examples given by the CChip site and the inscriptions on the chip they pictured were different than that of the chip on my PS2, but the chip is identical otherwise. Could this be an issue? All the other chips/inscriptions match perfectly, and I'm certain that I'm sporting a V4 PS2 (and the manual from CChip is the correct one as well.)
I'd appreciate any insight to any one of these questions.
Edit: One more thing came to mind. While we were opening the case up, we found that the fan's connection to the board was -glued- on, so we could not remove the fan and since the cable connecting the fan to the board went through a metal cover, this metal cover could not be fully removed. It would be a very difficult task to solder this without removal of the fan - has anyone had experience with this and is able to offer suggestions on how to deal with this issue?
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 29. October 2007 @ 02:16
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