i started off by cutting the corners 


sweaty palms really suck. i've really got a bad feeling i'll slip and cut myself 


done stripping 


i've decided to melt the rubber (with the solder) as its a cast around the wires 


really careful now. there are some important parts(ends) 


crap. the pins came out of the port. still stuck to the rubber/plastic cast 


stripping it layer by layer 


melting the solders already present 


pins all scattered 


putting them back one by one 


carefully. 


and putting a custom cast on the back so that the pins dont drop out 


the end product.  



Haha. it's been so long since i've done any handicrafts, so to speak.

It'll be like, (in army,)
what's this?
oh. i hand-made this charger, myself. :D


Addon:
this is proof that solder fumes(some chloride fumes since plastics have them) are more than just toxic. can you see the pink patch on my hand? 


stripping the wires 


done 


soldering 


heres my 2 legged alien 


with a tentacle and erh, mating with her mate. 


it works 


charging. 


this too 




There's a problem though. It was a on-off-on-off charging. A check with my multimeter shows that the voltage output was indeed 5V with no load, around 4.8 with load. But the problem lies with the current. It's about 100mA with load. When it requires at least 480mA to charge properly. That's probably the reason why the charging is rather intermittent. I guess the way to rectify it would be to use more batteries; say, 3 or 4 of 9V batteries in series. or 6 of D batteries in series. Only then can you pump the current up to about half an ampere or one, depending on what voltage regulator I'm using.

The voltage regulators can take up to about 30V; well anyway, basicaly they require high input to conduct a steady output stream. Gotta touchup sometime later.

I'm off.