Spare Parts Spreadsheet for PS2 & PS3 Boards

Wow, Rod!  That’s great!  Thank you!  As a retired electronics technician/telecom engineer, I SHOULD be able to do some of my own servicing.  As a retiree, money doesn’t grow on trees. 😄

Also, many thanks to John, Vernon, and GGG!!

I just found the audio amps for the 3V PS/2 boards on AliExpress, with shipping they were less than $1/ea.  I have a PS/2 3V board with a dead amp, and I just used my last one, so I'll see if these are actually any good.   They are the TPA2000D1PWR, but the difference between the TPA2000D1PW and the TPA2000D1PWR appears to just be the packaging quantity according to the data sheet.

Good find John; that beats DK’s price by a wide margin. Let’s hope they work OK.

@Rod Stewart posted:

Good find John; that beats DK’s price by a wide margin. Let’s hope they work OK.

I'll know in a couple weeks, I have a board with no sound, everything else works.  I'm assuming it's just the amp since that's what has been dead on most of the "no sound" boards.

I've found that instead of trying to solder these with an iron I use my hot air tool.  Tin the contacts, a little flux on the chip.  Carefully position the chip on the pads and heat one side first, then move over to the other side.  I hold the chip in place with a long skinny awl.  The last couple have gone on pretty quickly that way.  Those TSSOP parts are just too fine a pitch to solder individual pins.

John, I never thought of using a hot air tool.  A fellow I used to work with was really good at that fine soldering.