Miniware TS100 Screen Replacement - LFC 

My TS-100 was not used for months and now the OLED is almost dead. I ordered new OLED, and I am waiting they will arrive. I did not throw it away to take a new TS-80, because I have the TS-100 full set aluminium box with the full set of possible iron tips that exists on the market. This video helped me to decide to keep and repair my TS-100. I think that when the TS-100 is used for long time at high temperature around 380°-400° trying to desolder the bloody hi-temp industrial tin, the OLED get too much heat and the OLED become damaged. When I will dismount it, I am thinking to insulate the OLED by putting under some KAPTON tape and a special thin insulation material that should prevent the OLED to receive the internal heat.

i love this video, precisely because it's not flawless. it shows some of the basic steps of difficulty with this sort of tiny connector.

That moment when you need a soldering iron to fix your soldering iron.

My screen died while on the shelf for 6 months. I bought a new micro soldering rig so I put the TS-100 in a case and stored it for when I had a mobile repair job needing the portability.After about 6-8 months in a box, unplugged, it let me down when I needed it! I feel the particular display used in the manufacturing is batch defective. Thanks for all your fantastic content!

LOL, click on a relaxing Adamant IT video...nearly have an anxiety attack watching him solder a screen in :P

I used to love repairing stuff like that and computers .. I owned a computer shop in UK .. but when I moved to Asia things changed .. plus my eyes sight went really bad after a stroke and now I lucky if I see the table .. LOL

Watched a few times, ordered spare display, paused and then embarked on the exercise. Glad I watched video a few times AND had a handy little USB Cheapo solderin iron and job done, worked 2nd time! like you I had to do the reflow twice, using flux but worked. Thanks for an amazing video and saving me $US50!

🤣 Best entertainment I’ve had in a while! Nice to see your soldering skills have not deteriorated any more. As always here’s a BIG FAT 👍 from me! 🇬🇧

Thanks for this; needing to replace my OLED today and this really helps. Cheers !

I repaired mine as well. Just be careful when desoldering. I pulled too hard on the old display and ripped off 3 pads from the pcb! Took me hours to fix that with wire strand bridges (like with broken trace repairs).

Great video man. Didn't even blink my eyes for a sec. While watching this video.

Your videos are inspiring! I particularly like that you include your failed attempts. Makes me feel better about mine and reminds me that you can always try again

Thanks for guide, dude! I need to do the same thing and now I know what I’m going to face with and which part I need 👍

Had to fix mine too. Thread a wire through the 2 holes in the flat cable and the matching holes in the PCB to align and hold it. Make it easier to solder properly. Also mark the display location on the PCB to place the new one at the right place. I bought two spare displays just in case.

Works perfect, it was easier than I thought, thanks ! :)

Hello bro They have holes for allignment both on flex cable and on the pcb. When you allign them and put somestick or anything on them you can easily allign. Keep up your nice work.

Thank you.... Was looking for this for ages... Gave up a year ago and have just been guessing lol... Followed your guide got it 1st go.

The things you watch at nearly 2am on a Wednesday morning ..... I've meetings starting in 6 hours!

Aligning pins with masking tape then soldering 1 pin on the edge . Check the alignment and solder pin on the other side , thereafter the middle ones . Anyway we’ll done on getting it sorted 👍

One of the coolest videos I've watched in a long time. I'm not sure what my shaky hands could do with it but, this video makes me want to buy a TS100 soldering iron.

Yönergelerinden yola çıkarak başarılı bir şekilde ekranı değiştirdiğim için mutluyum. Teşekkürler.

great video. I suspect those connectors have redundancies at the connections in terms of electrical connectivity, because I suspect I didn't connect it perfectly and it still shows the graphics correctly.

i personally would of put the second sponge in over the connector, mus tof been there for a reason

Tried to replace mine today. Firstly, when I removed the original screen a piece of the flat stayed glue to the solder pads. It was a little tricky to remove. Secondly, I soldered the new OLED display and it worked... for some seconds. After that, it started blinking and sometimes shuts off. I passed the soldering iron on the screen's flat cable again and it worked (for some time again...). I removed it and soldered it again and the same behavior happens. Removed this screen and put a new one (I've bought four of them) and... the same thing happens. I think the display I bought is not liking the way we need to curve the flat. Finally, I decided to change a little where the flat curves (putting the foam far from where the flat solders for making it doesn't bend too close to the display) and now it's working (at least for last 30 minutes).

Been putting off the repair of mine for many months now, just ordered a new screen from Aliexpress which will take at least another month to get here. In my case most of the pixels stopped working while just a few are still fine so I can sort of guess what temperature it's at. But the weird part is that it got like this after months of not using it at all. While it was still new it might have become less bright over time but at least all the pixels worked. Would actually prefer some old school calculator type LCD since OLED has such a short lifespan even when not used.

"thinking about buying a 2nd ts100 just for this case :D"

Great video Graham, thanks. As relatively simple as you made that look I hope I don’t have to that to my TS100!!!

hahaha, amazingly I had EXACTLY the same issue, did a video on it too! Ordered a pinecil, and fixed the ts-100 with that. funny how much of a similarity our videos have, even took me 2 attempts to align that screen!

MiniWare makes awesome quality products.

Hi, following your video, I managed to fix my TS100, thanks a lot

Good job mate, I'd say that'll come in handy soon enough.

Which came first? The soldering iron or soldering iron?

This video helps me a lot! Thank you! 🤩👍

There are 2 holes on the screen ribbons and on the board. looks like those are for aligning them properly.

Smashing recovery with a tiny display :-D I did see the two alignment holes in the ribbon and the pcb, i bet there was a plastic staple to keep the holes lined up. Not supplied with the display :-(

informative as usual , thanks for sharing!

If you see Adrian's digital basement though, unplugging it too many times can break the jack and land you with a repair as well... Maybe try shutting the power supply off? 😂

great video! I love my TS100, didn't realise the screen could wear out but of course it makes sense, since it's OLED

Did hear correctly - did you refer to your other soldering iron as your "peasant soldering iron?" 😂

I doff my cap sir. Well done 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼🙂✌🏼

great video

Thank you so much

Running a hot soldering iron tip across connections makes me very nervous. If any of the pads are about to come loose that action would in all probability help the pads come off. My suggestion would be to hold the iron parallel to the length of the circuit board, placing the hot tip firmly on just a few contacts at one time being mindful of the heat transferring.

I strongly suggest you to flash Ralim firmware on this iron, it will give you acces to all the advanced options and a better interface. Flashing it is as easy as connecting the iron to pc and copying the firmware hex file to it.

You should of used a fine tip and with flux and tacked it on either side and then flood filled each pin, that’s what the little holes in the flex are for, but you got it on, you could invest in one of those wide bar tips for heating connectors.

That was satisfying!

The screen on mine is failing, I'm going to have to attempt this soon, not looking forward to it! I have the same problem, my other soldering iron is as bad as yours! I had exactly the same hope it had a socket! :(

That wide scraper tip might make it easier, to solder many at the same time.

I really like watching ur videos :)

Nice !....I unplug mine every time but the screen still went bad right out of the blue....cheers.

Lol! That was fun! You should have looked at the replacement video I did last year - would have showed you lots more problems you could have demonstrated :) Take care.

Another job done

Just come here after ripping the screen off the ribbon cable on my TS101. I sure hope I can wrangle replacing it - assuming I can find the part. Iron still works but it's no good not being able to see what it's doing

When Russians hear "I'm going to grab some alcohol, where is my alcohol", that's definitely not what they are expecting to see next 🤣

nice video

Cool vid 👍

Glad to see your finally using flux. You just need to use more lol. Did you update the firmware on your TS100? Looks stock.

Good job

Hay on ts1000 you forgot to put on the rubber pad by the screen connector.

nice fix mate

good job!

I have a similar oled display running on an arduino project and have noticed that charactars that are perminantly on are now much dimmer than numbers that change (after about 12 months continuous use)

Should buy a ksger t12 I have it and the ts100 and it's so much better especially on large joints + the fact that their is 10 times the kinds of tips and cost about a fifth the price

Wise man say.... to clean a hoover you need a hoover (old chinese proverb) :-)

Same problem here a few weeks ago. Burned oled screen. Replaced it and oled screen is working again. Very common faillure on the ts100 .

I'm not sure your problem was plugging it in too many times. Mine worked fine (full brightness) since I bought it up to 6 months ago. I didn't use it for 5 months, and when I plugged it in last month the brightness was down to maybe 15%. From what I've read in a few forums, this seems to happen a lot (sudden drop in brightness, not just slow "ageing"). Just poor quality displays, I guess. And mine is actually from MiniWare, not even a clone. BTW, the UG-9616TSW displays you can find all over eBay won't work. Same number of pins, same resolution, almost exactly the same size, but I guess the pinout / driver is different. I tried two (neither even lit up) and ended up putting the original one back on while I wait for a PG-9616TSWD.

good job

Good job, if I remember correctly you mentioned in another video that you power your TS100 with a Toshiba laptop charger, is this correct? I’m thinking of buying one of these over a TS80 (the USBC connector might cause problems, which one would you recommend?)

Merci pour cette vidéo qui m'a aidé à réparer mon ts100. Comme quoi, il faut toujours avoir un deuxième fer à souder sous la main car dans la vie 2=1 et 1=0

Hi bud well done on your first hot shot connector l think that what you called it lol 😆 and great vid

You got off easy there take it from a pro at destroying hot bars I usually apply a lot of solder to avoid ripping the hot bar you should also use plenty of flux

Brilliant video Graham, went out and bought one, none of my ppwer bricks fit, which make and modle are you using,

I had mine stored in its box for a few years (was working fine when I put it in) and the display still failed, I think they are susceptible to oxidation or some other form of degradation.

Cool, very stylish and powerful soldering iron but I highly, highly recommend, my other favorite tool (the other is a digital caliper by General) is my new soldering workstation, the amazing KSGER T12 (2.0 something firmware, the new one is 3.1 something) which will be an upgrade to my butane Iroda (will now be used for blowtorching, heat gun stuff and hot knife stuff and adhoc lighter) and will be an upgrade to the TS80 and TS100, coz' the T12 also has a battery powered version (rechargeable) and the heating element is the much superior JVC and Hakko's (the heating element is in the tip itself). It heats very fast, has two fuses for the main transformer (for the mains) and secondary one. It's very stylish and more affordable too:-) especially if you buy the 10 piece Hakko compatible Direct Drive tips. God bless, Rev. 21:4

it's a good iron but i just couldn't get used to mine went back to a more conventional solder station

Dear Sir : LOL IMHO this is an instructional and funny video ! I personalyhope to get s.th. to learn from it . Hoping to get a start position , during Your esteemable BBR, I salute You with Best and humble Regards

When you were a kid that would have been a gaming display #pong 🤣🤣🤣

What do you look for on Ali express? What's the name of the screen? Also can you make some new board repair video not Mac please

love the ts100. so versatile, portable, wide voltage input, can be powered from lipo batteries, wall warts, laptop adapters, etc. how do you get yours to go to 400C from the startup? mine only goes to 300 and I have to manually set it to 400.

Oleds dying quickly just means they didn't invest in software to have color shift refreshing instead of static refreshing. Look at an oled phone screen on youtube and you should see the refresh cycles. It's that wavy effect. If you don't do this, then yes oleds have a very short sub 1000 hour lifespan in a best case scenario.

i am never this early

Why is this under "LFC", this should be under "LFSI"

does any one know where to buy the copper clips inside the handle that hold the tips

you said you replaced your WEP station which is also your hot air right? what are you using now for hot air?

I wonder if you could have put on a zif connector yourself just as an up-grade.

Did you just soldered the soldering iron. lol

Bro pls hp2560p no power how to fixing

ffs the riboon cable has alignment holes for a reason, use them

Please point to an alternative link on AliExpress, the part used in your link above has been tripped in price ^^ - Thx

Kinda random question: What are your thoughts on Henry Cavill's video of him building his first gaming PC? Did he do it right?

Is the ts 100 worth the money even though I know it's relatively cheap but $50 to a $100 bucks is still $50 or a $100 bucks that I don't want to just throw away!

Which flux do you use/recommend? Do you have a link?

I hadn´t seen your hands shaking like that before, are you OK?

Hi! I recomande you QuiCK TS1300

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hi

these screens are in most Ecig Mods!!...i switched many of them!....never use hotair! a big Solder blob and fast working is the way to go! if u cant find one of these, take your buddys "Istick" and remove it from there^^ u are very lucky that you dont ruin the new screen with that piece of crap tip... Dude.....if u want to plug the new screen on the pcb...dont do it like you way! you have to solder first and last pin at the beginn and after that, look thats fit proper in place and after that you have to solder one by one every other pin! Most pins are groud or N.C....cause its a i2c display that use only 4 to 8 pins!

no flux and worst iron with worst tip. i will deffinettly did not post work like this

way too much flux and with the length of time you heated the pcb pads you were lucky they didn't lift