Hello,
I'm new to this Forum, so I hope it's the right place for this topic.
Im a student from germany, and as a hobby I repair electronics. I started microsoldering maybe 1-2 years ago.
I have a MacBook Pro 14" m1 Pro with 10 Cores and 16/1tb storage. The board Number is 820-02098-A.
The MacBook has a light water damage. Coffee got spilled over it, but the Mac continued working only the battery didn't charge anymore and when the battery was empty the Mac turned off and doesn't show any sign of life now.
I opened it up and there were only three drops of coffee on the board. One was near the hdmi port, and it didn't seem to affect anything (I don't have a picture of this one). I added images of the other two (I hope the quality is good enough, I don't have a camera for my microscope yet)
One is on the UG800, the other one near the QP800.
I cleaned the spots with IPA and an old toothbrush and tried to start the MacBook. But it only took 5V and didn't start up.
So i checked the spots again and saw that there was a small hole next to one of the Chips (labeled UG800 on the board view)I desoldered it. It appears to be a Voltage transformer, a TPS62180. And under three of the pins (PPVIN_5VUSBC23_ISNS) there is a burn-hole in the PCB. I attached an image. It appears to have traversed one layer and destroyed the layer underneath in this point. It looks like the coffee has shorted ground to the input and burnt these holes. In the schematics this chip is marked as 'Critical'. Do you think theory is true?
Do you think this chip is the problem for the mac not starting up? And ist his hole still repairable? How would I do this? It's my first time having a hole in a pcb...
And as a general question, because there are a lot of opinions on the Internet: Should you use an ultrasonic cleaner to clean water damage (in this case)?
Thanks for all of your answers!
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I'm new to this Forum, so I hope it's the right place for this topic.
Im a student from germany, and as a hobby I repair electronics. I started microsoldering maybe 1-2 years ago.
I have a MacBook Pro 14" m1 Pro with 10 Cores and 16/1tb storage. The board Number is 820-02098-A.
The MacBook has a light water damage. Coffee got spilled over it, but the Mac continued working only the battery didn't charge anymore and when the battery was empty the Mac turned off and doesn't show any sign of life now.
I opened it up and there were only three drops of coffee on the board. One was near the hdmi port, and it didn't seem to affect anything (I don't have a picture of this one). I added images of the other two (I hope the quality is good enough, I don't have a camera for my microscope yet)
One is on the UG800, the other one near the QP800.
I cleaned the spots with IPA and an old toothbrush and tried to start the MacBook. But it only took 5V and didn't start up.
So i checked the spots again and saw that there was a small hole next to one of the Chips (labeled UG800 on the board view)I desoldered it. It appears to be a Voltage transformer, a TPS62180. And under three of the pins (PPVIN_5VUSBC23_ISNS) there is a burn-hole in the PCB. I attached an image. It appears to have traversed one layer and destroyed the layer underneath in this point. It looks like the coffee has shorted ground to the input and burnt these holes. In the schematics this chip is marked as 'Critical'. Do you think theory is true?
Do you think this chip is the problem for the mac not starting up? And ist his hole still repairable? How would I do this? It's my first time having a hole in a pcb...
And as a general question, because there are a lot of opinions on the Internet: Should you use an ultrasonic cleaner to clean water damage (in this case)?
Thanks for all of your answers!
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