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It depends on the color?? I tried searching for info online about installing a resistor but found nothing on the subject.
I appreciate your generosity! But I can probably find em somewhere...
If you install a 33 ohm resistor in your overheating backlights please let me know if it works! I seriously doubt we're the only ones with this problem but I have seen very few threads about it.
Shit... That's depressing to hear but I'm glad to know it's not just my DMG before I blindly installed more into other DMGs.
It would be nice if they sold those trim pots separately for the people that already bought V5s...
Would installing a 100 ohm 1/4 watt resistor to the colored wire be the way to go?
I posted in a separate thread about my DMG overheating after installing a backlight and nobody said anything like that... it actually doesn't seem to overheat when it's plugged into an outlet rather than running on batteries.
I would still like to know the best place to solder for a backlight~
Wow! Nonfinite themselves! ^^
I purchased a crimson v5 backlight, a magenta one, and two bright white ones.
The overheating is not the transformer, as I tried a different back and it also overheated. ( I feel stupid for making a big deal out of it now...)
I soldered it to the places right under the LCD screen.
Would installing a resistor or soldering it to a different place solve my problem? I really want to start putting the magenta one in another DMG...
Wow, you were correct about that green stuff... Mine looks exactly like the one in your picture.
It's not getting super hot... but hot enough to realize there's a problem.
When you talk about checking the boards for a bridged pin, do you mean as a solution to the left and B buttons not working AND as a solution to the overheating?
I'm worried that the V5 nonelectronic backlight is the reason for my overheating. It is supposed to have a resistor installed but I don't know.
The CPU is on the back board, right? By destroyed I meant permanently damaged.... :-(
I had batteries in when I was installing the backlight. I'm pretty sure all buttons worked before installing the backlight... It wasn't powered on while I was connecting the ribbon, and after I put everything together I found out that the left and B buttons weren't working. After cleaning the board like a meth addict and realizing that wasn't it, I finally found a thread that explained my problem.
So the green stuff is just glue?? It's not on that transformer of any other game boy...
Will some short overheating damage anything permanently?
Wow, thanks for the fast reply. I'll just go ahead and post this here too....
I did have a bit of trouble when connecting the backlight.... This version is supposed to have a resistor built in, but even so I guess adding one wouldn't hurt, right?
It doesn't heat up immediately, but will letting it get hot cause prolonged damage?
Thank you for that tip... but you're about 1 week too late! I had some batteries in the GB while I was connecting and disconnecting the ribbon cable....
When this happens, only the back circuit board is destroyed, correct? I had another back board and after (correctly) trying it out the buttons worked again. My mistake hasn't cost me damage to the front board too??
Hey guys, I'm new here. Been modding some Gameboys for a little while now and I've run into a problem.
After installing a V5 nonelectronic backlight into my Gameboy the lower left side overheats. I figured out that it's a small round piece on the back half.
Please check the link for a picture. It's the part right below a capacitor.
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/16asmftpwk1l0ox/WwL0KHCiJz
The round watch battery looking piece has some green stuff coming out of the top not in any other Gameboy I've seen.
There was a thread about the same thing a few months back but the topic creator didn't give a solution if he found one.
Any help is much appreciated. Also if you know what that piece is, please tell me.
Thanks!
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