Pinebook got wet
(09-25-2021, 02:18 AM)walterbe Wrote: I regret to inform the forum that my Pinebook Pro is formally broken. The battery charges a couple of minutes. Then the light goes out. Pressing the power button gives no responds.
Will give the computer to my brother to thinker with. He has a technical background that maybe makes a difference.
Thanks for the responses.
Trace the power from the battery and power port with your multimeter, if you are lucky it only toasted the mosfets(switching transistors) that control charge, I had a few laptops fail this way, one from a crap reversed polarity power connector I bought form some sketchy ebay seller in China.
You can get the replacement part or figure out by part number and pull the data sheet to copy the function and replace with some chonky to92 packaged transistor rated at or above requirement that you have in your parts bins.
I think Pine64 has schematics posted somewhere but I couldn't find them in a short search.
