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Hey everyone, I am building my first Ashida. Wanted to make a worklog to track my progress as well as ask a bunch of questions because I am very new to this. I have read a couple other Ashida worklog threads, watched Ginger's Ashida build VOD four times now, gone through the Ashida BOM, G-boy guide and the 4layer schematics. (however I have never used KiCAD before and am having a tough time opening the .mod files)
This is also my first time on a forum and I will do my best to follow the bitbuilt rules and forum etiquette and will work to correct any mistakes I make in that regard.
THE PARTS:
THE PROGRESS
NEXT STEPS:
Thank you for any and all help I appreciate it! I tried to do as much of my own research as possible before starting this thread and asking questions but I apologize if any q's I have are dumb or already answered somewhere I failed to look.
This is also my first time on a forum and I will do my best to follow the bitbuilt rules and forum etiquette and will work to correct any mistakes I make in that regard.
THE PARTS:
- I am using an RVL-PMS-2, RVL-AMP, the Ashida PCB controller set with GC+ 2, and PMS-PD 2 along with the IPS screen and blue driver board that I modified.
- the headphone jack, tact buttons, volume potentiometer, battery clips, ribbon cable, ribbon cable connectors, speakers, batteries and power switch are all the ones on the BOM. The fan I got is an Orion fan like on the bom but was missing a lot of the cooling information and the one on the BOM is backordered for a while. The heat sinks I also had to swap out because of backordering and believe I got suitable replacements. The screws I am harvesting from the wii.
- The 3D prints I used PCBway, I did resin for the shell and tact buttons and ABS for the brackets and mounting parts.
- Populating the Ashida PCB controller set are OEM gamecube controller stickboxes, triggers, buttons, membranes, analog trigger potentiometers that I salvaged from two gamecube controllers I accidentally murdered a year ago when I was first learning to solder.
- I have trimmed the wii but havent tested it yet because I wasnt sure how to charge the batteries without hooking them up to the PMS and PD first. I am hoping to do an MX and bluetooth relocation. I also desoldered the AV connector on the wii to use for testing and I did Not anticipate that being so challenging but I got it. I checked the resistances on the wii and those are shown below. I think they're in reasonable range? I also removed the LDO but the dremel did go lower than I meant to and sliced the board a bit, unclear if that will be an issue or not.
THE PROGRESS
- So far I have plopped the triggers, battery clips, heat sink and fan in and populated all the boards.
- I desoldered all the connectors on the driver board and ran a 30awg wire from the inductor to ground like how 4layer said to. I did end up ripping up some traces on one of the connectors (not the VGA one thank god) but Idk if that will cause a short or not.
- I used the mounting bracket and fixed in the IPS screen with the driver board behind it. I then twisted 34awg magnet wire for the red, blue, and green lines and used untwisted 34awg wire for the Hsync and Vsync.
- I then soldered on the ribbon cable connectors hopefully well (that was a little tricky) and soldered on the GC+ 2 in hopefully the correct orientation. I can 34awg wire to the trigger stops and the c-stick box (not sure if I made the wires to the C-stick box too long or not)
- Then I used the screws and bolted down everything along with the trigger stop mounts and connected the ribbon cable between the two halves.
- I soldered 20awg between the battery clips and that is as far as I got as of July 20, 2023.
NEXT STEPS:
- I need to order thermal pads for the heatsinks because I forgot those
- I am waiting on the buttons for the populated amp board because I forgot those when I ordered all the stuff from PCBway
- Then I am hoping to get that nailed down and wire it up to the PMS and then PMS to PD and the batteries in place and charge those puppies up so I can test
- Then testing
- Do we think that slice next to the LDO will be a problem and are those resistances for the wii acceptable?
- Is the my method of charging the batteries going to be okay?
- Did I ruin the drive board by ripping up that trace?
- Are the wires for the c-stick too long?
- Are the GC+ and RVL-AMP in the correct orientation?
Thank you for any and all help I appreciate it! I tried to do as much of my own research as possible before starting this thread and asking questions but I apologize if any q's I have are dumb or already answered somewhere I failed to look.
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