Nintendo DS

[solar_plasma]

I had the opportunity to disintegrate a defective Nintendo DS. It looks like a medium yield cell phone to me. All interfaces and contacts are goldplated, some mlcc, some tantal capacitors,only three tiny flatpacks and maybe two silver plated contacts (lower left corner in the second image).

 

[shmandi]

Those slot pins have nice colour

 

[solar_plasma]

Yes, indeed.

The little mitsumi device has a flatpack,too.

Maybe all in all the DS is comparable to a high yield cellphone.

 

[Pantherlikher]

Morning..here anyhow
Since I go through box lots from auctions, I get alot of hand held games and cartridges.
Most are low grade with flat backs and black epoxy but more then guessed have nice boards so don't overlook the cheap stuff.

A few higher end hair dryers and curling irons have full silver buttons, not just plated on copper.

I tear down anything and everything electrical and it's like Christmas...but with alot more unwrapping work...

B.S.

 

[resabed01]

Those LCD screens have some resale value on ebay.

 

[CBentre]

Morning..here anyhow
Since I go through box lots from auctions, I get alot of hand held games and cartridges.
Most are low grade with flat backs and black epoxy but more then guessed have nice boards so don't overlook the cheap stuff.

A few higher end hair dryers and curling irons have full silver buttons, not just plated on copper.

I tear down anything and everything electrical and it's like Christmas...but with alot more unwrapping work...

B.S.

Interesting. .....do you have a picture of one. I'm just trying to get a visual of this because I know for a fact I've overlooked this a few hundred times in the past few months. I know I for one would of never even took a second look until now. Thanks in advance.
Steve

 

[grance]

Nintendo wii and rockford fosgate car audio amplifiers are decent also. Wish I would have saved the pics.

 

[Pantherlikher]

OT2BNLA

Picture of what? Curling irons?
Sorry no pics at present as I don't have 1 and I haven't found my program to edit pics so the file size is alot smaller.

Anything electric that has a switch usually has at least some silver in the contact point.
Some hair curling irons, clothes irons, heaters etc. Anything that has a temperature cut off switch has contacts that need to be resistant to the sparks created when the switch is turned on or off. Silver is self cleanning and works great for this.

As far as hand held games, the 80s-90s were big for hand held games so there now is collectors of them but they have circuit boards inside.

 

[CBentre]

My apologies, what I meant was a picture of the silver button. I honestly don't have time for contacts but I thought the silver button may have had a different meaning.