wd 5tb spyglass 3

[Heena Vora]

Hello gurus,

                      I want short pin for rst so that we dont need to pill off capecitors for attached pcb .Pls help.

[Desert Data Recovery]

He is asking a different question. 

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Hello gurus,

                      I want short pin for rst so that we dont need to pill off capecitors for attached pcb .Pls help.

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[Louis Man]

I think this is what he's referring to:

https://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=3381

I experimented with this a while back, but I couldn't get it working. I may have been using the wrong pin. Fzabkar did mention that they're not all the same and that it can depend on the PCB layout.

I haven't revisited it since, so for the time being I'll keep removing the capacitors.

Thanks,

Louis

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[compos mentis]

Use your multimeter to locate the resistor and capacitor combination
which is connected to pin #38 of the bridge IC. Then solder a link
between ground and the junction of the resistor and capacitor. This
grounds the Reset* pin.

[Eastcoast Data Recovery]

Hi Franc,  Thanks!

I'll try that  soon.   It's been a while and I recall doing that by wiring an enameled wire from the closest trace to the bridge pin to GND.  It didn't work but the issue might be my wiring or a failure to check and i didn't revisit it.

I'll do that again after the weekend. 

 Definitely, I would prefer to do it without removing caps, if possible.  

Will update.

Thanks

Louis

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[compos mentis]

These bridge ICs use an RC combo to reset the IC. When the IC powers up,
the voltage on the capacitor is 0V. The IC is in reset mode at this
time. The capacitor then charges via the resistor. After a certain time
which is defined by the RC time constant, the voltage on the capacitor
rises above a predefined threshold and the IC then switches to run mode.

Typically, when the IC is in reset mode, all the I/O pins are in a hi-Z
(high impedance) state, which means that they are effectively
disconnected from the circuit.

This is the typical arrangement:

Vio o--- R---x--- C ---o Ground

Point "x" is connected to the IC's reset pin.

[Desert Data Recovery]

There is no need to actually remove the caps. Just use hot tweezers to slide the caps to the left and they are kept in place by the one pad.

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[Eastcoast Data Recovery]

So on confirmed on 800041 - per your image, point X is indeed linked to that reset pin.  So I'll wire X to GND and see how a Sata conversion works at the start of the week on a test drive.

Thanks

[Eastcoast Data Recovery]

Smart Tim.

That's a nice way of doing it.  I always lose them in the mess of the soldermat.

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[compos mentis]

I would wire point "x' to ground through an SPST switch. Then you have
on/off control over the reset pin. The wire length doesn't matter.