FLIR Thermal Imaging Camera Multimeter - Teardown & Repair!
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- While browsing eBay, I came across a broken FLIR Thermal Imaging camera multimeter. It was advertised as "for parts or not working" come join me on what turns out to be quite a roller-coaster ride!
I found the company that makes these quite unhelpful and they would not supply me with any parts due to "proprietary information"! Even though they do not even manufacture the parts required!
So I had to get creative....
Link to the screen I used:
www.aliexpress...
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Louis Rossmann would be proud to see you advocating for "Right To Repair". He is a huge proponent of R2R in the States. He lobbies legislators and speaks to legislative committees on this topic. He started out many years ago working on Apple phones and laptops and ran into constant problems trying to source replacement parts, board diagrams and proprietary troubleshooting software.
Nice work troubleshooting the problem on this FLIR camera/multimeter. I dabble in repair myself but don't have a o-scope or other stuff like function generators and microscopes. We all do what we can. Clearly you have the skills and equipment to do quite a lot. Good on ya!
Thanks marscruz👍 I watch Louis often🙂
@@BuyitFixit Louis maintains a repair procedure Wiki mostly for MacBooks but I think any product can be added. Adding the FLIR DMM might be a way to get more people to know about the inspired fix.
Really appreciate you taking FLIR to task on right to repair. More companies need to step up and actually support the products they sell. Awesome fix. Found you via My Mate Vince btw
Thanks Four Oak Farm 👍.Vince has helped me out a bit as he gave me a shout out on a couple of his videos. He's a subscriber too! We've had a good few chats on here in some of the comments on my videos. He's a good guy!
I’m a Fan of Vince as well! Great guy! 🎉
Yes, nice fella👍
So did I! MMV 👍
@@BuyitFixit i AM BIG FAN TOO🤝🤝
Amazing fix! Love it when people repair stuff without using the original parts. It shows ingenuity and a capacity to actually understand how things work.
Thank you Roger! It was a bit of a rollercoaster ride!
Fantastic fix! Bodging that PWM signal to the screen refresh was some proper out of the box thinking. It does look like it was faulty from the factory - the thing looks brand new. Very well done on that one.
Thanks Nathan!
Amazing repair! Unfortunately I feel you'd get the exact same response from almost every company that makes electronics these days. "Please throw it in the trash and we will happily sell you a new one"
I'm surprised this channel hasn't got way more subscribers.
Thanks Adam. I've had my channel for quite a few years but I've only been doing it fairly seriously for about the last 6 months. It has grown quite significantly from when I started. Agree with most companies just want you to throw things away and not repair them. I remember when you used to get a manual with a schematic or the schematic was on a label inside a device. Alas you don't hardly get anything like that these days.
Ok, I definitely see the channel getting big with the content you’re making. Hopefully the likes of Lewis Rossman or NorthridgeFix soon.
As for availability of parts, it will only come if companies are forced to do it. Right to repair. Lewis Rossman is doing great work with it.
Thanks Adam! I watch Loius too and he seems to be a big proponent of #righttorepair I don't like the way companies try to lock things down with software locks etc too so components have to be paired etc.
If i got ""Please throw it in the trash and we will happily sell you a new one" response from a company. My reply would be: "No, im not doing that and you won't be selling me a new one. Screw your company policy. You can fk off and I'll just buy what i need from a chinese 3rd party.
@simontay4851 lmao 😂😂😂😂
Amazing work! Do you think if you had separated (cut) Pin 2 from ground on the replacement screen ribbon cable it would have still bootlooped? Really impressive fix to take the signal from elsewhere. Well done Mick👍👍👍
Thanks Vince. No I tried cutting the track first. But no luck. It was waiting for a low to high transition. I think it was sat waiting for an interrupt and then the watchdog timer was kicking in causing a reset.
@@BuyitFixit Thanks Mick, keep up the good work. We can all learn plenty from your vids👍
As a retired engineer , I know exacltly the feeling you got when the screen came on. Nothing like it in the world. Congrats.
Thanks David👍
I'm in my late thirties and just starting to understand a bit beyond the basics, and get some soldering skills etc. That comment really got me too, because it is the main motivation behind wanting to learn more :) Thank you
You are truly genius with getting another vendors screen to work like that.
Thanks 🙂👍
@@BuyitFixit
Looking for the invertor video now.
Very impressive repair - I admire your tenacity and instinct when it comes to nutting out the failure and how to find a means to solving it.
Thanks 👍🙂
Very impressive diagnosis well done and a very useful bit of kit. Shame on FLIR though!
Thank you John!
Really good video, excellent fix, the people who provided the data sheet for the screen deserve a mention for being the complete opposite of flir.
Thanks Shaun. Yes it comes to something when an obscure Chinese LCD seller is more helpful than a huge multimillion dollar company.
they deserve a bells
Well of course. Huge multimillion dollar companies only care about how much money they can extort from you, they couldn't care less about customer service. Fk their company policy, you got another screen from china anyway _and_ the datasheet for the original screen. Flir can fk off.
@@BuyitFixit They probably ripped of the IP of FLIR and made this display themselves. lol
FLIR will be pissed. Great fix - now everyone knows how to fix that model if the screen goes kaput. You tricked the cpu like the news van in the movie "Speed" did by making a tape of the camera on the bus to loop over and over, tricking the bomber into thinking he still had all his hostages! Well done :)
Thanks 👍. Yes I was so pleased I managed to get that one working!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
GREAT fix!
Isn't it a fantastic feeling when you spend all this time and effort and IT WORKS!!!!
Thank you! And absolutely! That's why I like fixing things🙂👍
Trust FLIR to make themselves look a bunch of assholes. Nothing unusual there, R2R is the only way forward. Certain shitty electronics firms are just going to have to accept it.
Top marks Canny Lad.
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Yes 😂😂😂Thanks Wayne & Nina 👍
Another reason not to buy flir thermal camera. When you look how much they charge for their products, the after sales service is disgusting. I think it's their way of holding its customers to ransom. SHAME ON YOU FLIR. Well done for you, to out source a different display and finding a work around. I'm sure this video will help others in the future, that face the same problem.
Thanks Andrew 👍
I second @bootsowen 's comment on you being very brave on that meter!
The datasheet suggests floating the pin, but as it was stipulated on the original LCD this probably cause more trouble. Do you know what is meant by TE1 = TE? Is there a second pin on the LCD marked TE1?
They must limit warranty repair units to the 1 year minimum otherwise they'd be perpetually replacing them.
I managed to find a suitable clutch for a 40year old 2Stroke hedge trimmer from Ali Express. That shop comes in handy!
Thanks Ian. I'm no sure about the TE1 as I couldn't see a TE1 pin on the pinout. It can be left floating if it's not used, but in this case it was being used to tell the processor that it had finished drawing that frame or something, but with my bodge it looks perfect anyway... Perhaps it might not update the image as quick or something? but it looks good to me! I was using it earlier on a board to see if I could see a heat spot... Yes AliExpress does come in handy!
@@BuyitFixit TE is "Tearing Effect". It is the frame flyback pin if you are native english speaking. I had a similar experience with random aliexpress displays having different pinouts. However in my case I was able to change a resistor position on the flex PCB to get access to TE
Thanks for that! On the display I got from Aliexpress pin 2 is just linked along with pin 1 direct to ground. No resistors or anything to change.
Flir. Thermal. lmagong. Camera. Multimeter teardown And. Repair
This type of repair is the reason I'm hooked on Buy It Fix It.
Well done.
Cheers mate 👍
Nicely done, you deserve the bodge of the year award! Very good sleuthing!.
I suspect that something like this could have already been resupplied under warranty. And you got the broken one that wasn't even worth collecting.
I got a samsung washing machine the same way, it was left out on the street because of a broken door, warranty replacement, only a few years old but not even worth collecting, just a single piece of plastic from one of these "adwash" door in doors. In my case a load of silicone and persistence got it right, and it has been working happily for over a month.
You are braver when it comes to gambling on a broken one. But I guess you know where you are coming from. I took a punt on a modern heat pump tumble dryer, £40, all it needed to get it going was a careful clean, not even a particularly thorough one. I have posted a few videos of both repairs.
If you keep at it like this subs and views will find you!
Great stuff!!
Thanks bootsowen and great job on fixing the washer and dryer!
Awesome work-around! So since the display grounds pin 2, I'm assuming that in addition to jumping that line to the backlight PWM, you also lifted the pin from the display connector? This was an interesting fix -- I own one of these meters and this will be a valuable resource if it should fail in a similar manner down the road.
Thanks 👍yes you are correct. I cut the track near the display connector so the pin wasn't grounded 🙂
if it fails then we can check is it 10y warranty that they claimed on mail.
Dont buy Flir or other companies like Axis
Buy products from companies where you can get parts or buy a new unit cheaper
Tearing effect also happens when a cpu can't process data fast enought to keep up with a screen's refresh rate. You are great at repair. I'm glad I found this channel.
Oh thanks Joey! I'm no expert it's just a hobby for me, but I've always repaired stuff for neighbours etc and always had an interest in electronics and computer software. You might like the RGB laser video as that one was fairly interesting, or the Ultrasound scanner too!
You deserve way more subscribers. Very nice fix.
Thanks Robin! I'm sure I'll get there eventually...
Watching this video thinking:
this guy doesn't know what he's doing...
this isn't going to work...
this guy doesn't know what he's doing...
this isn't going to work...
this guy doesn't know what he's doing...
this isn't going to work...
this guy's a flippin' genius!
😂😂😂😂Thanks 👍 Did you see the solar inverter repair and then the software hacking then ensued, or the medical ultrasound scanner video I did?
That video had it all - suspense, jeopardy, disappointment and a great resolution! Thank goodness for AliExpress.
Thanks Julian! Yes it was definitely a bit of a rollercoaster ride that one!
In cases like this, I search for the CPU datasheet and try to find UART TX pin to get some debug log to find out what's wrong with the device
I've done similar a few times too, like on the AVerMedia capture device video and on the recent VTech baby video monitor repair.
This is why I boycott Flir...
Indeed 👍
and this is why i actually dont mind chinese sellers. they will happily sell you a random obscure part, give you a data sheet, etc. as long as you can get past the language barrier. some sellers even make obscure parts for equipment that isnt even supported by manufacturers anymore. are they knockoffs? yes. do the original makers still sell that part? no. all is well.
Yes, he was very helpful. A lot more helpful than FLIR was 😂😂😂
Excellent job. Certainly doesn't make me want to deal with that company when I want to buy a thermal imaging camera, which I will be doing soon. Great that you could find a non-OEM display that works. Thanks and greetings from Germany.
Thanks Bruce 👍
Great find and fix. That is a nice tool to have doing the repairs you do. Great video once again!
Thanks Jeffrey! :)
Absolutely BRILLIANT!!! Many thanks from Nr Chester.
Cheers thanks 👍🙂
Their lack of support is disappointing and we should keep fighting for right to repair.
They offer a 10 year warranty, though, and that's fairly impressive.
I think that only applies to the original purchaser, and if you have proof of purchase :(
unfortunately as you stated the warranty only is available to the original purchaser this should not be the case especially with it being a 10 year warranty this should be completely unconditional and available to all purchasers whether it was bought new or second hand the company could easily check the date of manufacture by the serial number and i feel the warranty period should start from the date of manufacture unless the purchaser can provide proof of purchase this would then allow subsequent purchasers to benefit from the 10 year warranty. failing that the manufacturer should be forced to provide spares and service data backup to enable the product to be repaired by a third-party repairer or repaired by the owner if they are capable of doing so. I used to repair consumer electronics mostly Tv sets and audio equipment i stopped doing repairs when it became dificult getting the spare parts and service manuals for the products this was around the time when CRTs started to dissappear and flat screens took over the first flat screens used to have service manuals available but the majority of the tv was the LCD panel and this was regarded as a single component and was deemed unrepairable and the manufacturer would charge almost the same price for the replacement panel as the price for the entire Tv set. I have done a few repairs mainly for family and friends these were mostly PSU repairs or replacing backlight LEDs. Great job with that meter. You are very lucky with that one. i am not surprised that the obscure Chinese seller of the display was much more helpful than FLIR !!
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*** - 20:38 when u had it disassembled & you put the display on backwards.. that could have been *VERY* bad... also u should have tried updating the firmware 1st.. b4 disassembly.. it could have just been corrupted..
Hi Terry, thanks for your comment. 20:38 the display is connected correctly (it folds down over the PCB). It would not power up the backlight otherwise. See 31:59 where I fit a display that hasn't failed and it's connected the exact same way.
There is no way to update the firmware on this unit (I did think it could have been a firmware issue and checked at the time), and you can only update the firmware on the version next model up from that one that takes the SD card.
This one doesn't. I even tried the hidden internal USB which does not enumerate as a device. Hope that explains everything 🙂
Very impressive repair, just subscribed to learn more. Well done.
Thanks Patrick. I've got a switch mode power supply repair for the next one, which is fairly educational!
Hardball with Teledyne I'm all for Right-2-Repair but there are limits, yes? GR8T repair but questionable tactics. Cheers!
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£749 + vat , currant price' you can get a HD IR camera & a hi end DMM for half that , rediculas price , good find ...........
Thanks leso 👍
Mate, as soon as I saw the voltage come up on that screen, I raised my hand and said "Heeey, get on that mate!" like I'm watching footie!!! :D Nicely done mate!
Thank you 🙂👍
Excelente vídeo.. shame on the company for not seling parts...
Thanks 👍and yes. I've found even when companies do sell parts often they are priced so it's not a cost effective repair (Milwaukee for instance).
I’m glad you found this out about FLIR. I was about to purchase a new meter similar to the featured in your video. Because FLIR does not support “Right to Repair” they are definitely going on the Do Not Buy list. BOOOO FLIR. For spite, let’s completely reverse engineer the meter and post schematics and BOM so people can fix their own tech.
Great video
Thanks👍I've had a similar experience a couple of times now. One was with a Solar inverter I repaired, and then needed to adjust a setting. I emailed the company that took over manufacturing them and they said "it's an old model, buy a new one" pretty much. I ended up having to reverse engineer the software and I wrote my own service password generator which is available on the video to download. I also show all of the emails that went back and forward the same as on this video. You might like that one too. It's called "no password, no problem" 🙂
These companies are like..... "why are you fixing the kings stuff pessint"? No we won't help you. Lol
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Wow! that was damn satisfying video! I admire your perseverance. Good job. And those email exchange xD
Thanks 👍Much appreciated 🙂
Flir is pretty much the top of the chain of proprietary crap. Unless you are a military outfit or have a billion dollar company they don't give a damn. Better to buy a Chinese made camera with faster refresh. Better resolution. Macro lens. Etc. Flir is like a bad version of fluke.
Totally agree 👍
I bet the company is well p33ved off for you fixing this FLIR Thermal Imaging Camera Multimeter.
Probably just as peeved as Fimer. Who make solar inverters. I repaired one and needed the service password which they refused to give me and said bin it! The two videos are on here too. One is the repair and the other is the software reverse engineering I had to do...
imagine bmw selling cars ,but would refuse to sell parts to garage,s . they would quickly go out of business . nice job m8 ,i know this comment is super late ,but im going through your all your video,s :) . NIcccccccccccccccee lol
Thanks 👍I had a similar experience with a solar inverter company who wouldn't give me an engineer code after I repaired a faulty inverter. I had to resort to my own devices.... (video is called "no password, no problem") 👍
FLIR has gone full TESLA and APPLE, but can be seen by there high priced items as well, I guess another company to avoid.
Indeed 👍I actually got sent a thermal camera attachment for my phone to test. The resolution and frame rate is far superior to the FLIR. I did a video comparing this unit and the one I got sent.
You really tricked that mcu 😂
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FLIR : 0 😂😂
Excellent work 🤜🤛
Thanks Michael 👍🙂😂😂
Flippin Ek.
Another great bodge Canny Lad.
Cheers 👍
*** - could just be a firmware issue... and u keep putting the displays in backwards... it would fold down back on itself when in housing.. you keep putting it in backwards
Sorry Terry, I'm not following what you mean by backwards? The display is actually upside down in the unit by design. If you put it in the other way the ribbon cable signals and power would be on the wrong pins, and I am skeptical they would even make connection due to the contacts only being on one side of the cable.
According to a google search, the DM166 was released in Oct 2017, which means it would still have been under the 10 year warranty. Not sure if FLIR would have repaired it for free without an invoice, however.
I doubt it. I'm sure they wanted me to supply the original proof of purchase.
If Google serves me right the DM166 was released in 2017. So if they offer a 10 year warranty, then why do they need an invoice?
Probably something in their warranty terms and conditions to say the warranty is only valid with the original purchaser or something I guess, even though I totally agree with you👍
@@BuyitFixit I have come across businesses that have outstanding customer service in that they replace items that they didn't need to, which means that I'll happily go back to buy their products again, and - even more importantly for them - recommend them to others. Flir is actually having a decent warranty here, but zero customer service. If they don't change their attitude they'll soon be out of the last loyal customers and out of business...
I recently had the same with Ninja, I bought one of there food processors just over a year ago, used the blending jug around 2 or 3 times and noticed it is all cracked around where the motor shaft goes. I contacted support and they had a look via video link and was told I was about 2 month out of warranty. This is obviously a manufacturing issue as there are loads of reviews on their site with a 1 star rating saying pretty much the same problem.
Well instead of that company making some money by selling you a replacement screen, they made 0, and everyone watching this video now knows they can instead buy a screen from china and run a simple wire to get the device working. Right to Repair continues! (I mean seriously what is it with these companies not selling spare parts for their items and demanding you get them replaced under warranty?)
Totally agree! 👍
Fantastic work! Thinking out of the box again. Well done. I’m off to watch the solar repair now 👍
Cheers mate 👍
I've had a very similar response of fluke, i needed a replacement front housing for my t5-1000 as it has a crack in it. Respons alonge these lines "bla bla about warrenty and we dont sell spares bla bla proprietary bla bla send it in"
Thanks for letting me know 👍 I think this is why we need right to repair unfortunately.
Flir used a 320 x 240 screen. The Kd 0230 2 is a part number that was used by the display mfg. Looks like you were lucky to find another simmilar part on the web but the interface was different. Note the web page never had the 23c01 number. Flir may not know the kd 032 number i think there may be another flir number on the back of the lcd.
Another company that I won't be buying from. Let them drown with their proprietary garbage.. If I own it, I should be able to do with it as I see fit.
IMHO.
Great Job on the repair.
Totally agree 👍
It was looking grim for a minute! You sounded so happy to get this repaired. Glad I'm not the only one who gets emails like those. Louis would be proud !
Thanks 👍🙂
I hope everyone that views this video takes note of the very unhelpful company, that eventually, consumer law will deal with. Anyway a brilliant fix.
Thanks 👍 I had a similar experience with a solar inverter too after I repaired it I needed to change a setting and they wouldn't give me a code because it was an 'old model' the video is called " password, no problem " it includes all of the emails too 🙂
10 year warranty sound good for this product, maybe the original owner can provide you with a purchase ticket. There again the manufactures probably would object to repairing it seeing that an independent has already opened it.
I think this was a customer return as the unit appeared to be brand new and unused, so I doubt they would have been able to provide an original purchase ticket otherwise they would have just done that themselves.
I'm surprised you didn't check the two fuses first thing. It wasn't that and it would be a worst design ever if a blown fuse for the input of a DMM were to cause a blank screen but, you know...
When you said there was a couple of pins different on the new screen, I kinda hoped you'd have to break the trace and reroute them or something but what you did was even more impressive.
Thanks 👍
I love how the company talk about "proprietary information", but yet you can go and buy the same thing for £10 somewhere else, and get a datasheet from too.
But one thing I did notice on their website is that they have some government and defence contracts, so they might be legally bound in these kinds of situations.. So that smugglers/terrorists can't reverse engineer their products to fly under the radar, or hack their systems, etc.
The US government are very scared and touchy about this kind of stuff, and they seem to be one of their biggest customers.
Funny thing, the one thing that FLIR make in the whole meter is the Lepton sensor, yet you can freely download the datasheet from most suppliers and possibly even their own site 😂😂😂
Possibly my favourite fix on the Internet! I'd send them another email letting them no you fixed it with a cheap screen from china 😂
Thanks Sean👍 Much appreciated feedback 🙂
The mail would probably just get ignored or the sender put onto a watch list of hostile customers.
Excellent revenge bodge repair ! Take that you greedy SOBs.
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I have a Flir One Pro and it needs its 3rd battery. I believe the oem charging circuit allows an overcharge, either to fast or too high a voltage. I think if this one fails I am going to modify it to use an external battery, probably 3 AAA energizer ultimate batteries. The internal battery never did run it for long on a charge. Perhaps I will make it attach with a magsafe ring...
Sounds a decent plan 👍
Boston Accoustics wouldn't supply me with any information or parts for a 20 year old computer speaker system they don't sell or make anymore. In fact they don't even do pc speakers anymore. Rather frustrating to say the least..
That's a shame David. I hope you manage to get it sorted 👍
A yr. late , But I wonder if you tried the original screen with the bog wire - stopping the cycling ?
Thanks agian
Better late than never 👍the original screen just lit up all white. It didn't display anything at all. I think the internal LCD driver chip on it had failed.
This is hilarious, a simple way to fake the confirmation signal by using backlight pwm power. If it works it's not stupid.
Indeed 😂😂😂
Fantastic fix with no help from FLIR - well done
Thank you 👍
Magic! I felt good for you when you fixed it. That’s an expensive piece of kit!
Thanks 👍yes I don't actually use it now as I prefer the infiray one I now have. It has a higher resolution and frame rate and also I can record to SD where this one doesn't record.
Great video 👍 So lame that in the 21st century reverse engineering is so easy but the companies think we live in the 19th century 😂
Thanks 👍😂😂😂
RESUUUULLLT!
And i hope FLIR or this gadget makers (didn't get the company name) see this with bowed heads: you completely slamdunked someone greedy, lazy or both in their immoral manager or even CEO ivory tower making no-repair policies. If they knew there is no replacement screens available on market and they gave any thought to this, none would've believed you can do it. Big cudos for the replacement screen retalers, someome have heart and mind in the right place by giving you schemathics of the original!
Besides FLIR product policies or even quality seems dodgy in quality as well, especialy considering the pricing. Why would someone who just bought this specialised meter - visibly new - wouldn't send it back and get a refund? They had to sell it for 6× less and are lucky someone paid even that. Smells of nonexistant client service or ethics.
I have a CAT mobile with a FLIR camera and while it worked, it wasn't too great imo. I knew about the low resolution given it's mostly a toy for a mobile, similar or lower than this one (will look it up now). Problem was that phone combines visible light camera with thermal to make a coherent picture, and both doesn't line up (like by 10-20mm on the screen). You still get the temp readings, but its all a bit fuzzy and i'm not sure about accuracy. You can manually add multiple points on screen reading the temperature on these points or average out an area, but it cannot find the highest or lowest points automatically as i've seen done with FLIR, so apparently software doesn't allow for it. After 6 month use the battery overheated and died, waiting for a replacement which us not cheap, but i guess that's the CAT issue. Luckily i bought it already a bit used, so didn't spend even 1/6th of the RRP. All things containing FLIR are pricey when new.
Cheers for that👍ironically I don't really use the FLIR now as I ended up being sent an infiray P2 pro which I think is great! It's got 4x the resolution, and 25 fps so it's a lot better than the FLIR. Also it records to the phone where as the FLIR one doesn't. Have a look at the review I did or the Philips soundbar video which shows you what the picture looks like compared 🙂👍
I find some companies who have secretly cheaped out making their expensive wares in Taiwan or Shenzhen are the ones who are the most unhelpful as they really want you to pay top dollar through the nose only to find the item has been knocked out by the Asian factory at a fraction of the price. I haven't a Flir and won't ever pay the hundreds and thousands they ask for when for £30+ you can buy something that does the same off Aliexpress... BTW £80 prob was an amazing price as I spotted couple of spares repairs for couple hundred on ebay.
Thanks, you could well be right 👍
Did you check the original display? I'm really curious what makes it fail with a white screen.
Yes, there's not much on it apart from a few capacitors and a silicon chip die bonded onto the cable. I suspected failed chip or bond wires. I did check the capacitors and none were shorted.
Great fix. Did you contact FLIR and tell them you fixed it?
I don't think I did😂😂😂
Watched it twice! Awesome
Is it possible to do a continuity check on ribbon wires of display (no. 1 and 2)?
Thanks 👍it's been a while since I looked at this, the ribbon is bonded to the display and has a chip bonded to it if I remember. I checked the capacitors on the display ribbon, but came to the conclusion that the IC on the display had failed.
Did you not get into the display? it seems odd it should have failed between the factory and the point of use.
I bet retailers won't get told to just dump it in future, they will all be returned to factory for crushing.
I did have a look at the display but there was very little on it besides a few capacitors on the ribbon flex and a small glass type driver IC also bonded to the cable. All the capacitors measured ok so I think the driver IC or bond wires going to it had failed.
yeah FLIR told you to piss off. typical, unfortunately
Yes, I had the same experience with a solar inverter I repaired too. After I repaired it, I needed a service password and was told it was an old model and buy a new one. So I reverse engineered their software and wrote my own password generator 😂😂😂 both of those videos are on my channel too 🙂
WOW How much did u pay for the faulty unit if u dont mind me asking, spot on repair , i would have been over the moon,,
I think I put the listing up at the start of the video. £80
What an awesome fix! What looks to be a great tool!! Eat that, FLIR!
Thanks 👍
Very nice repair - so i wish you all goodness - bye - you insptiratet me - thanks
Thanks Adrian 👍😊
So how exactly did you find the replacement screen?
I found the specifications of the meter "2.4” digital TFT display, 320x240 pixels" The size is actually wrong as it's slightly less! (probably a marketing thing). I started looking for a screen that had the same resolution, size, and same number of pins on the connector and that's how I came across the screen I used. It looked very similar apart from the difference in the one pin that I discovered.
Great job with that bodge! Also, can't believe they wanted to see a receipt to make sure your barely 5 year old product was within the 10 year warranty period as well...
Thanks 👍Yes, I think there warranty only lies with the original purchaser and is not transferable. It looked like a customer return or something as there wasn't even any light scratches or signs of use on it and all of the test leads were still sealed.
Next time tell them it was a Christmas present and Santa did not include it in the gift; But, hold on, you'll go check the chimney😜
@hypocrisyrules 😂😂😂
Bloody hell yeeaah. I jumped up when 0.00v appeared 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks 👍You and me both 😂😂😂😂
Did you cut a trace so pin 2 no longer went to ground? (Assuming pin 1 and 2 were ground).
Yes, indeed I did 🙂👍
Your level of skill and knowledge is quite amazing
Thanks j s. Luck also helps at times!
very clever work, congratulations.
Thank you! Cheers!👍
Good job mate! I was getting a little worried for a few. That would be a nice meter to have. I have the FLIR camera for my phone. Takes a bit to set it up to check images when I'm repairing something though. That would be quick. My son actually works for FLIR. He makes the optics. Excited for you getting that to work.
Thanks KG Salvage! I'm glad I got it working too! ... But.. I'm not really that impressed with it. A company sent me an infiray one that plugs into your phone to do a review and comparison and my first thoughts are it makes the FLIR one look like a piece of s#*t!
I've wanted a thermal camera forever. Eventually bit the bullet and got an Infiray for the phone. It's amazing!
Yes they are good. I got offered one from topdon which seem to be very similar spec if not the same sensor.
Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat!
Yes 😂😂👍
You measured the operating voltage of the display 2.7V. Datasheet says that operating voltage is 3.3V. So original display may work fine if the VCC is right ???
The new display is also 3.3v as I thought it seemed low at 2.7v. I think I did read in the data sheet that the VCC was 2.7v to 3.3v. It seems they chose this voltage as it also supplies the lepton sensor core which is rated at 2.8v
OK. The reduced operating voltage increases the operating time of the battery@@BuyitFixit
Just discovered your channel this afternoon mate, great content, so varied, you've clearly got bags of skill. You'll be at acouple of 100K in no time, btw have you though about starting a patreon? (I always want great content creators to be compensated properly)
Welcome aboard! and thanks for letting me know. I've not looked into the patreon side of things, a couple of people have mentioned it though. Thank you again for the support, I do try an make a variety of "fixes" just to keep it a bit interesting 👍
@@BuyitFixit So glad I found the channel, I'll be watching all your videos over the next few days 😁
You're a class act, no nonsense skilled repair - a man after me own heart. Get yourself a patreon and I'll get you a few pints 👍
Q: do you sell these repairs you do or have you a barn full of fixes?
A: I've got a house full of fixes 😂😂😂 A lot of the stuff was for my own use, but I really should get round to listing stuff I don't use, on Ebay.
What would have happened if you just tied that pin to the power supply?
Nothing, I tried that too. I think the microcontroller pin was set to interrupt on falling edge or such, so it sat until there was an actual transition. Hope that helps 👍
Flir went and bought up half the dmm market haha. That was the most perfect staircase wave I've ever seen in real time.
I've actually been sent another thermal camera by a company to keep, which I'm going to compare with the FLIR. I'm going to do a comparison between them.
Mick, I cant imagine what you could do if you had a schematic to work from. I’ll bet you would be able to add features or improvements to anything you got your hands on.
@@bills6946 Cheers Bill 👍sometimes it's more software than schematics. Like the ultrasound scanner video where I find some hidden features which I managed to unlock 🙂
@@BuyitFixit Exactly my point, Mick.
Really good 👍... enjoying much
Thanks Rob 👍
might be an idea to send FLIR a link to your video. showing them that they are actually not required to fix their products. great work.
Thanks! I'm not sure if I did reply back to FLIR or not. I had a similar experience with a solar inverter and the company wouldn't give me the password for it to adjust a setting after I repaired it, I didn't give up and had to reverse engineer their software, and then write my own password generator. I then emailed them back the passwords for both of my inverters 😂😂Both the repair and the password shenanigans are on my channel 🙂
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Exactly 😂😂😂😂
Why do they need the invoice!!! 10 years is 10 years no matter who originally purchased it. Even if they try and say it’s to identify it was bought within the last 10 years, I don’t think they started manufacturing these more than 10 years ago and even if they did, I’m sure the serial number would give them an indication as to its manufacture date. It’s just another way of them not having to repair or replace their own devices and ultimately contributing to landfill
Yep. And I doubt they have made this model for even a couple of years so it should be in warranty no matter what..
But there's an end of line to consider - if they've already exchanged the original receipt for a free warranty replacement meter, they're hardly likely to want to offer another free replacement for it. For all anyone knows someone removed it from the skip after it had been swapped, and sold it on eBay for £80. in which case, on this occasion, everyone was a winner :-).
@@will_doherty You find companies commonly smash warrantee return units before dumping them for this exact reason. However with serialised products and modern 'service' records it would be easy to determine if this was a return unit.
An ethical company would collect community repair information and use it to improve their repair department skills, the reverse is probably true these days and they use this information to prevent the same sort of repair in future. 😞
I love a good bodge job, well done. I enjoy a good bodge in the workshop I work at with out of production stuff.
Thanks 👍yes I've had to get creative a few times. In fact the video out later today is quite similar.
Jesus! I've got no finger nails left 😂
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Great work! You're genius!
Cheers mate 👍