Reply To: Voultar's RGB Bypass (8 consoles dead)

[BlueStinger]

Hi, I did actually. The RGB bypass boards had +5V and GND shorted (I took them out and checked, it was indeed coming from the modkit). Back then it didn’t occur to me to check the mod before installing it, took me a long *ss time to even check that, hence why things went sideway for so long ^-^ Now that’s the first thing I do. From memory, I bought 8 RGB bypass boards, 2 had +5V and GND shorted and another one had Blue (output) and +5V shorted (and because I used to remove CXA as that’s what a modder from the US was doing without any issue, I started swapping bypasses around to rule things out, I basically ended up damaging several of them in the process, and back then, no oscillo :/ ). Last year someone complained to Voultar about another mod of his and pcbway (or JLCpcb?) chimed in to confirm that he had some weird artifacts in his pcb. I guess the software he was using back then was buggy. If you type “artifacts from:@Voultar” on Twitter you can find tracse of this exchange (July 7th 2020).