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#nintendods

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JordiGH

I had a really fun time last night. Visited a helpful individual who soldered a new trimmer potentiometer to my DS Lite to replace one that I accidentally scratched off. It was mesmerising to watch him work with all these neat little tools.

Exposed contacts where the previous trimmer potentiometer broke off
New trimmer potentiometer being soldered in, with a little bit of glue to help it along
Back of DS Lite exposed to show how to adjust the trimmer potentiometer after installation
Front of DS Lite with screens turned on to see the effect of adjusting the trimmer potentiometer
#NintendoDS#DSLite#repair
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JordiGH

So now it looks like my hobby is fixing my Nintendo DS instead of playing with it.

Yesterday I couldn't quite get the potentiometer for the bottom screen to work quite right.

Oops, in my fiddling, I broke it off.

Well, now I have a replacement, but I'm going to need help soldering this tiny thing on. I found someone local who can help me! I'll take the thing over tomorrow for the soldering job.

Nintendo DS PCB with bare contacts for variable resistor 2, next to packaged replacement
Closeup of back side of replacement potentiometer on a finger, showing the contacts.
#NintendoDS#Retrogaming#repairs
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