well, yesterday i forgot isopropanol in lab so i couldn't clean my boards..
So i thought to use my multimeter in order to see if the dc-in board is alive or not.. and suddenly i realized that i have a multimeter but i don't know how to use it...
someone can explain me the right step to check my dc.in board?
many thanks.
first of all, I doubt that the DCIN board is bad. This part has very little electronic components in it (I think just a filter capacitor and diode).
In my MBP, the DCIN board has a 5 row of solder joints that are visible when the bottom cover is removed. These solder joints (spots re-arrange the magsafe pins as follows:
Magsafe: 1. gnd 2. +v 3. sense 4. +v 5. gnd
Solder spots: 1. +v 2. +v 3. gnd 4. gnd 5. sense
So you need to find out which solder spot is 1/2/3/4 and which one is sense line or 5.
With the magsafenot connected to the MBP:
To find out which ones are gnd pins, set your multimeter to one of resistance measurement scale, ie.e, 200, 2000 or 20K, it should then display a 1 indicating open circuit. If you then touch the tip of the black and red leads together it should display a 0.x meaning that there is continuity between the red and black leads. Now touch and hold the black lead to one of the MBP screw head, and the red lead to solder spot 1-5. You should get continuity on 3 and 4. Based on this you then know which ones are 1,2 and 5.
Now connect the magsafe adapter to the MBP. Set your multimeter to the 20 volts DCV measurement. It should show 0.00 volts. As before now touch and hold the black lead to the MBP screw head. Touch the red lead probe to the DCIN solder spot 1 and 2. You should read some voltage there. If the magsafe is enabled by the SMC, you should get 16.5 volts reading. If it is not getting enabled, you will probably get a very low reading like less than 1 volt.
Any voltage reading obtained this way will indicate that the DCIN board is OK and that the magsafe is being ENABLED or DISABLED by the SMC via the sense line.