kmiller8
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Well as I'm waiting for the "correct" charger to be delivered from china, I decide to try and DIY my own charger, and here's what I came up with...
[REVISED]
thanks to Benm and HIMNL9 for the suggestion to mod the battery itself!
What You need:
Soldering Iron
Wire & Solder (different colored wires will be helpful)
Old Cell Phone with charger and battery
2 small magnets
multimeter, or something to tell voltage
**Disclaimer** I am not responsible for any exploding batteries, or phones catching fire **Disclaimer**
1. Take the small magnets and solder a bit of wire to each one (few inches)
2. Disassemble cell phone battery CAREFULLY, there is a very small PCB you won't want to destroy, and you want to keep the plastic surrounding the battery in one piece so it fits back into the phone.
3. unsolder the battery from the PCB
4. Check the voltage of the battery using your multimeter
5. solder each colored wire to each respective joint on the PCB
6. place battery back in phone, attach magnets to battery, then attach charger.
7. Charge!!!
Pics!
also, make sure you don't let the magnets connect to each other, that wouldn't be pretty.
Thanks to photonaholic for the wires to make this possible
EDIT: i just realized this may be the wrong section for this, sorry bout that...
[REVISED]
thanks to Benm and HIMNL9 for the suggestion to mod the battery itself!
What You need:
Soldering Iron
Wire & Solder (different colored wires will be helpful)
Old Cell Phone with charger and battery
2 small magnets
multimeter, or something to tell voltage
**Disclaimer** I am not responsible for any exploding batteries, or phones catching fire **Disclaimer**
1. Take the small magnets and solder a bit of wire to each one (few inches)
2. Disassemble cell phone battery CAREFULLY, there is a very small PCB you won't want to destroy, and you want to keep the plastic surrounding the battery in one piece so it fits back into the phone.
3. unsolder the battery from the PCB
4. Check the voltage of the battery using your multimeter
5. solder each colored wire to each respective joint on the PCB
6. place battery back in phone, attach magnets to battery, then attach charger.
7. Charge!!!
Pics!
also, make sure you don't let the magnets connect to each other, that wouldn't be pretty.
Thanks to photonaholic for the wires to make this possible
EDIT: i just realized this may be the wrong section for this, sorry bout that...
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