2502a teensy love.

[self_slaughter]

Well it's not really much of mod, but I'm flying up to surprise my son in 2 days and as a bonus I picked him up a slim PS3 from the local hock shop for next to nothing. Fortunately they had a cech2502 date code 0d with 6 games for $100AUD, so I jumped on it being one of the most recent modifiable consoles available. Got home, double checked minverchk which showed 3.40 (was on 4.80) and set to work on a fsm downgrade and rebug Dex install.

He loves my dirty old CECHL02, but now I'm in love with the slim I picked up for him. He lives in pretty well constant 40'C+ temperatures, so I gave her the full work over. Gelid extreme paste, phobya thermal pads and a nice little teensy tucked away behind the hard drive cover so he can tinker without fear of killing it and make use of webmans dynamic temp control once modded.

Old paste was rock solid, but it wasn't overly dusty inside, so hopefully she'll live a few more years now! Thing is whisper quiet and a good 20'C cooler than my temperamental bastard of a phatty.

Anyway, just wanted to share some pics since I can't show him yet...
Gets them off the iPad so I can show him what's inside the beast later!

Nice to see my soldering skills are slowly improving. Took my time to make sure everything would be Mickey Mouse for him. Came out pretty well I reckon.

 

[pinky]

that's some good soldering there. some of the best I've seen.

 

[Strict_NATtype]

Beautiful! What are the tapes for?

 

[sandungas]

The tapes are mostly to keep some order with so many wires, also helps to avoid destroying the motherboard by mistake... as example in his photos after everything has been soldered... when assembling or dissasembling the console if you pull from the wires you can lift some copper pads from the motherboard surface and this is a disaster

Btw, not sure which tape is used in this installation, but the recommended one is named "kapton tape"... it resists up to 300+ ºC and the glue doesnt degrades with temprature or time, is the tape used in all laptops, mobile phones etc... (and satellites to shield them against posible space radiation) to isolate daughter boards or ram modules, wifi boards, etc...
Kapton is a brand... there are a lot of clones of it... overall all them are ok because is made of the the same materials, the original kapton resists up to 300 or 400 ºC... and the clone ones maybe 200ºC but is ok because the PS3 motherboard is not going to heat over 100ºC in the worst scenario

Edit:
Nice installation btw, good hands