Nintendo Switch – Dropped in Water Fix / SL & SR / Battery Draining in Sleep Mode

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A long look at a Nintendo Switch which was dropped into the bath! The plus side the bubble bath left inside smelt nice!! The Switch belongs to the son of Mr RetroUnlim – the leader of the RetroGaming YouTube community I belong too!

Please check out MyMateVince’s channel, if you haven’t already! Thanks to Vince for helping out on this one!
Vince’s part of this repair (watch this to see the middle of this repair) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4xnq9pq7Ww
MyMateVince Channel – https://www.youtube.com/user/mymatevince

RetroUnlim is a retro gaming (and other things like music and toys) community, of which I am part of:-
http://www.retrounlim.com/ I will do a video on RetroUnlim at some point!

Timestamps:-
00:16 – Intro / Teardown & initial clean.
15:38 – First bath of PCB in IPA.
25:55 – Reflowing with hot air (more time was spent than shown – it takes several minutes to heat some of these components up).
29:04 – Second bath of PCB in IPA (this time agitating the components affected – an ultrasonic bath is better!).
31:05 – It’s working (almost)!
34:12 – SL & SR buttons on both Joycons.
42:19 – Battery draining in Sleep mode.
45:08 – Seemingly perfect!
50:55 – Final testing of sleep mode & close up of the video.

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