How do I fix a laptop charger cord?
If you know how to solder you can fix it but it won’t be as good as a new one.There is a shield wire and a central core. It is usually the shield wire that begins to break first and then starts sparking as the wire gets weaker with bending and begins to separate. They usually look messy and a bit black.Trim back the two ends of broken cable neatly. You will have to cut back the rubber on the charger end to get enough wire to work with.Trim off about 1 cm of the outer plastic from the cable with a craft knife (don’t cut any wires underneath) and slide it off to reveal the shield cable (earth) then neatly peel them off the center wire and twist them together tidily as shown. If you do cut some of the outer wires, cut the cable off again and repeat. You need all of the shield wires connected or it won’t charge fully.You will also have to trim back the white insulation for a few millimeters to enable the core wires to be joined.On the charger end you will have very little length to work with but try to achieve the same thing. Match up your cable with the charger end and solder the two core wires together. Wrap a small bit of insulating tape around the center joint.Then solder the two outer shields together. Make sure the outer and inner wires remain absolutely separate in the joining process. Separate them with insulating tape or use a flexible glue to seal up the joint. Make sure there are no stray wires that could connect with the core.Silicone electrical tape (it binds to itself) is good for finishing these repairs.
What do I have to do to fix this broken laptop power cord?
I can see where you are going to run into trouble trying to follow the instructions provided as an answer here, since they say to bare the wire a bit at both ends of the break...... but you can't expose the wires at the plug end of the break, since there is the hardened casing to keep the wire from bending at the 90 degree.So what do you do?Well... you could purchase another plug. No... I don't mean purchase a new power adapter. Everyone told you that, and you already knew that. No... I mean you can find an electronics store, and purchase a new plug. The end that goes into the laptop? The plug portion of the cable. It would be extremely inexpensive. Of course, then you have to attach the new plug to the cable. You'd cut the cable, expose the white shielded wire that would have the braided ground wrapped around it. That white shielded wire... or the wire that is inside the insulation at the center of that braided shielding... is your positive. The shielding is your negative.Then, you'd break out your soldering iron, and you'd solder the positive wire to the positive (center) connection on your new plug, and you'd solder the ground shielding to the ground connection on the new plug.... and voila!
My laptop charger keeps breaking?
There are three possible problems: 1. The motherboard is defective and drawing too much power 2. The laptop charger quality is pretty bad 3. Your handling of laptop charger may damage it There's really no way to test if the motherboard is bad and causing the problem, for this, you should take it to a local repair shop and have them take a look at it. If you buy chargers from ebay or other cheap websites, it makes sense that the laptop charger quality will be poor and it will break fairly often. Lastly, try not to bend the cord at all times and make sure that you are not pulling on it or stepping on it. The external pressure will cause laptop charger's wiring to break. I would also recommend buying laptop charger from Topmic.com because they offer lifetime warranty and free shipping to all their laptop chargers at a reasonable price. With lifetime warranty, i think their quality is really good. http://www.topmic.com/ Best of luck.
How much does it cost to fix a laptop charger port?
so, I haven't been able to use my laptop for 3 years.... basically, I sat it on my lap a lot. it got to the point where it would only charge when i held the wire in strange positions, and then it stopped charging all together. the battery is fine, because it still holds a charge, the charger cord was brand new. I read that the power acceptor inside has become loose, and just needs to be sodered back on. i was just wondering how much that would cost, and if it would be worth it.
What do i do when the grounding prong on my laptop charger broke off in the socket ?
well its ok to keep using your laptop with that charger,you just wont be protected if the outlet shorted out or had a power surge it would more and likely spike your computer or maybe even short the laptop out and if by chance you r touching the laptop at that time it is very likely you may get a little shock from it,that ground prong is on cords for your protection and the equipments protection as well,it gives the electricity a safe route back to the outlet instead of thru you.i would recommend you replace that charger so it will be safe for you.now if you need help finding one,email me the exact name and model number of the laptop and i will be glad to locate you one at a good price too.i meant to add this,if the cord is the part that goes from your charger to the wall outlet and it plugs up both ways(meaning to your charger and to the outlet) you might find that a desktop power cord just may fit the charger,but it really depends on the model charger you have.hope this helped.need more help email me.
How can I repair my laptop charger port?
Well, you’d disassemble the laptop and identify the specific part that needs to be replaced. Then, you weigh the repair against the cost.For example, it is cheaper to just replace the little printed circuit board that an HP power jack is mounted to, than to take the time and make the effort to remove the actual power jack from that little PCB and resolder a replacement on it. The time it will take you, and the frustration you’ll go through desoldering those connections exceeds the value of the repair… when compared to how inexpensive the power board is and how quick it is to replace it.And if you had a newer Toshiba, the power jack is connected to the motherboard by four wires. Easy to remove, easy to replace.If the power jack is soldered directly to the motherboard, then you would have to desolder it, and replace it with a good one.You could also replace the power connection setup with a pigtail.… if money was tight and you were… oh, I dunno… homeless? I made this repair on this laptop when I was homeless, back in 2007. I still have the laptop, and the repair is still good today. The picture is a few months old.So. How do you repair your laptop charging port? I don’t know that *YOU* can repair it. I have no idea of your level of skill in any of the techniques you’d need.YOU probably take the laptop to a repair shop. That’s most likely how YOU repair it.Otherwise… as I said… you take the laptop apart, and you assess the situation once you are actually looking at the damage.
How can I fix a metal prong that broke off on my laptop charger power cord? Can I solder it back on?
I’m assuming you luckily didn’t break anything in the PC itself. Most folks would buy a replacement adapter if they break their old one. That probably would cost them from $10 to $50. I applaud your effort to save the money, but you might want to check for a deal before you try too hard to repair.It’s not clear from the description which prong broke. The obvious prongs on these things are the input mains power jack prongs, 100–240 volts. There’s not really an option of soldering a broken prong; maybe if you know a welder…Generally if you break these, you should to replace the entire jack. Open up the adapter, get the part number off the power jack if possible, and see if you can find one on mouser or digikey or elsewhere. If it’s cheap enough, order it, unsolder the old one and solder this one in. That’s a professional fix. Sometimes you can obtain the part you need from a broken “as is” adapter on ebay.You might not care about the professional fix and just want a cheap fix. I’m not recommending this, in fact I’m telling you not to do this. But in the past I’ve chopped the plug off a regular power cord (I think of them as computer cords), not the wall end, the other end, removed my old jack and soldered the power cord directly to my charger. I was careful to match the old wiring exactly. It’s not as good as a detachable cord, but we’re trying to save money here. I was sure to provide strain relief for safety so pulling on the cord didn’t pull on the solder joints.You broke the prong on the power cord? If it’s a regular computer cord, two or three prong, they’re cheap and common; just replace it. I have twenty lying around the house from old computers. If it’s an integrated cord (soldered in on the charger end) replace it just like I told you not to do in the last paragraph. If you broke the other end, the low voltage end that goes into the computer, you should try to match the plug and replace it.
Can a bent or broken laptop charger cause an explosion (I.e exposed wiring)?
Thanks for the A2A.If the damaged laptop charger is original equipment, it is extremely unlikely it could cause an explosion. Not impossible, but the odds against it are so high that it might as well be. Usually, if the original charger is somehow damaged, it will just cease to function.If it continues to work and charge the laptop properly, then it is probably functioning according to the original manufacturer’s design parameters and there is nothing to worry about. I would monitor it’s temperature, however, just in case. If it gets a lot hotter than normal, stop using it.Even third party chargers should not cause an explosion. They have been known to catch on fire, but a full-blown explosion would be a very rare thing.