The last battery he put in *is* the aftermarket battery. It did work. The last 4 digits on the part label is "2024" and also there's no official barcode stickers on it. Still, you DO have to be careful with aftermarket batteries - they are often just rebuilds from good cells in packs that were in recycle or bins. Also, some manufacturers are putting chips on them so that even official batteries from other models that look and fit the same won't actually work on other models... Acer, Lenovo (others?) I'm looking at you!
@@rustler08There was a time when batteries were removable, and replacing your battery with the cheapest aftermarket one was a perfectly normal thing for your average consumer to do.
Hey man great job repairimg the connector. Pro tip for you tho.. asus battery connectors are so much easier to solder down and mask with the retaining clip removed from the connector. Gives better access to pins and u dont have to worry to much about masking the retaining clip to the connector. The clip it self just pulls out side ways from the "pin" side. Hope that helps man ❤
This repair video was absolutely amazing! The detailed explanations and step-by-step guidance made it so easy to follow. Love how you navigated through the challenges and got the Asus ROG FLOW Z13 back to working condition. Keep up the great work!
The struggle is real when working with high thermal masses. Preheating with hot air will help with desoldering and soldering with leadfree, even tho I know you RU-vid solderers love your leaded solder. And yes, flux in certain situations can cause issues with certain high speed signals.
With the battery that wasn't charging, I think Electronics Repair School usually force charges it for a short while directly from a PS to get the voltage high enough to get it started.
Superglue has quite low heat tolerance before weakening, we use it in turning to secure some parts that are hard to chuck and usually just heating the backplate with a torch a little is enough to weaken the glue bond. I would guess less than 200C.
that board is THICCCC.. so much thermal mass that it barely heats up. Those side posts were not on the same line, but who cares I guess if it works :D Oh yea and superglue, at least cyanoacrylate melts at 85*C so not very much, its probably better to finish soldering and then glue the thing permanently in place or just repair with two large copper pieces, since 2 pins on the right are together and 3 on the left.. whole thing can be coverer by one copper pad.
Super glue evaporates under heat, I hope some of it stayed in place long enough to get the mask on there. I always wanted to know how strong is this mask...if it's just like regular paint I wouldn't have much faith in it to keep that mechanical part safe from abuse. I would have tried some epoxy instead
@@maklogetrich2378 I don't know exactly, I only know I touched it with my soldering iron and fumes came out that got into my nose but worst was into my eyes. Please stay clear of those fumes because it HURTS
second battery looks like aftermarket indeed, which is what the orig owner was trying to install. Horrible device form factor.. But at least it could still be opened without too much pain unlike some MS Surface models.
oh god i knew this design will have its flaws specially when its first of its generation theres just no way nothing will fail on that chassis cramped with cooking grade silicon chips
I wonder if there's a way to get the XG Mobile eGPU they made for this thing to go through thunderbolt instead of the proprietary cable so it can be used on more laptops
Probably the battery that was on was the old one and the user just stopped working on the device after trying to remove the connector and ripping it off.
Asus does something similar with the g14 battery and other laptops from personal experience. It's intentionally picky about which one it will accept. I dare say it may be serialized. My g14 let me power it on but only ran at 400Mhz and disallowed Nvidia graphics from being enabled. A similar ASUS laptop of a relative refused to use the battery despite it being a 100% original replacement. Used to be a good brand 10 years ago, now it's shit.
Does anyone use epoxy on pad mounting? Or am I the only one? The mask isn’t strong enough. And never tried super glue but would think it would corrode alloys? Copper ect? No?
'asus' and 'laptop' should be banned together. Most of the laptops I see with no power and short on mosfets are asus boards. Something seems to be lacking severely in their power delivery. Of course no fuses either because that would be too easy.
