Broken video goggles FIXED!

by Roelke2 | October 24, 2013 | (0) Posted in Challenges

I have these goggles and i have to say the image is just beautifull only when I wanted to go out flying fpv today I couldn't get an image to my goggles. now i have these goggles for quite a while now so warranty is out of the question so being the engineer that I am decided to take them apart only to find out that a chip of the board just desoldered itself for reasons i do not know since i only have them on for about half an hour max each time. 

here are some photo's of the guts of the goggles

this is the main board of the goggles.

these are the little OLED displays.

so time to repair my goggles. instead of using a reflow oven I used a heat gun normally used for removing paint. My heat gun has 3 modes: off,300degrees celsius and 500 degrees celsius. I used the 2nd mode (300 degrees for reflowing the main board. first heat up the heat gun and the point it at the board for about 4-5mins. after this let it cool down so when you want to pick it up no components would fall off or burn your fingers. 

once it is cooled down I reinstalled the oled displays to the main board and video cable. Time to test the goggles if they work or are really broken. 

SUCCES!!! I jumped with joy to see my goggles working again. Mostly so I didn't have to spend any money on another pair. the blue screen I have is because i didn't have a video source connected to the goggles. 

thank you for reading my post and keep flying :P

sorry for my bad english as it is not my mother languageX

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COMMENTS

tramsgar on November 4, 2013
Glad you fixed them. So how do they stack up to other goggles out there? Price/performance? Micro review? =)
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Roelke2 on November 4, 2013
well the resolution is fantastic which is 1280x720 but checking on the price you are better of with a fatshark or something else but I'm not only using these for FPV flight. I used to use these for playing on my xbox or watching 3d movies. But since I had these laying around I didn't want to pay $200 for a fatshark.
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tramsgar on November 4, 2013
Ok, I see. Thanks!
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apache64 on November 6, 2013
Hi, i have a pair of these goggles too, and i too took them apart as i wanted to put them into a pair of ski goggles. however on taking them apart i must have blown something as i get no picture at all, i spoke with the supplier, asking to buy a new board, but they would not do so, nor repair them, I was obviously disgusted at their customer service, i know it is my fault, i am willing to pay for board, but this is not company policy... :-(
So which chip came off, so i can take a look at it to see if is the same issue??
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Roelke2 on November 7, 2013
some pins on the bigger chip on the right got desoldered but I heated the entire board with the heat gun just to be on the safe side incase other components were not connecting.
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Broken video goggles FIXED!