Microsoldering with Jessa Jones : Meet Jessa 

How's that working for you?

Pros don't have time for that, they just take a big piece of white eggcrate foam or a pill box lined with magnets and just place the screws in the same pattern into the cells according to their location on the device.

But, without values or specs. it's nearly impossible to do a successful repair.

These are mass produced devices. You can map things out. You could desolder the capacitors one by one, stick them into a component tester, it spits out the specs. You could drop all the components off the board, photograph the solder mask, sand it off, photograph the top layer, sand it off, photograph the next layer, and so on, and reverse engineer it. You can stick a scope into the inputs and outputs and figure what the power circuitry and various simpler control circuitry does, or know what kind of overall behaviour patterns to expect to see when and which ICs need to be replaced. So eh? And if you have a device with an unrelated failure, you can just transplant things over. Not all components are going to be available for purchase, so that's often unavoidable.

I should add I worked in IT for several years so I find it easy to relate to these repairs. But to do soldering at that level you need those steady hands and a microscope. Fix it instead of bin it.

placebomessiah thanks!

Can the snark. That's in another video. This is an introduction to the guest.

Miyagik Yes, it's not like this is a series where episode two comes after episode one. Someone has never watched a TV show before.

A pilot episode in which nothing happens would have a really, really hard time getting commissioned though.

+Alexander Wazza You can swap from a donor board without any knowledge of what the component does, or you can read the schematic and it will tell you.

Josh Olson i had winamp on with the radio playing whilst watching this and had no problem hearing hem speak

Josh Olson Your amp is dying.

Josh Olson Interesting Josh, no issues here with audio output.

+Josh Olson I watched several videos before starting this one, and I didn't notice any low volume problems, using speakers.

carlosedwardos I use Omano 2300S with v7 articulating stand, or the similar simul-focal model from Amscope. I recommend trinocular port for a camera--I use an HDMI video camera by Optix at home, that is a different camera than the one used here. I also recommend the 144 LED light ring. Cost for scope without camera is about $700

iPad Rehab and where did you get your microscope?

California based Amscope.com or Virginia based microscope.com selling Omano brand both are very similar to each other

Jacob Nelson will do, thanks!

Clinton Swart Nice. This is a video series. I hope you change your tune when you watch Kyle fix this exact mini board by soldering a microjumper to correct a missing pad as his first ever board repair. I know I was impressed.

Never waste your time when you learn something is not important if deep or basic knowledge, thanks Jessa for share your experience

Clinton Swart The title of the first video in the series is Meet Jessa, not Watch Jessa Solder. Have you seen the second video yet?

+iPad Rehab can i buy AmScope SM-4TZ-144A for microsoldering ?

Clinton Swart Your comment should be titled: "I didn't actually listen to the whole video before shooting off my mouth (and now I look like a dunce)".