I am afraid I laughed into the face of the poor salesman. He got indignant and told me that he wasn't the one setting the prices. True enough I guess, but I was too busy laughing to reassure him.
Anyway, I decided to build my own USB charger cable. In the photo below you can see the ingredients: (clockwise) A soldering station, callipers, an old Nokia 3.5mm to 2mm converter, shrink-tube and an USB cable in the middle.
I cut of the 2 mm Nokia connector and the male USB connector, and removed the isolation from the cables. Thankfully they are colour-coded: Black for ground and red for 5V. The white and green USB data cables are not needed and get cut off.Btw, it is important to put on the shrink-tube before soldering anything...
2 minute later: Connections soldered and covered in shrink-tube. I debated whether I should put in a diode, but then couldn't be bothered, and it shouldn't be necessary anyway.
....aaand here we are: Not pretty, but it basically cost nothing, and it does the job.
Neat solution. I got an Old Nokia phone, all my chargers have been lost except for one used in a car.
ReplyDeleteFollowing your instructions, I got an old Nokia USB cable, cut the end of the car charger and connected them together with an old fashioned 2 wire splice.
Plugged it in and it works like a charm. Thanks a lot :-)
Happy to know I could help someone, and thanks for letting me know!
ReplyDeleteHey, I tried this in NOKIA 1650, but keeps saying charger connected, when I put it in my Philips dvd player. Windows 7 PC dont even charge using this circuti.
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