[Duo] Re: Repair of PB 2400 ac adapter

[jpmist]

Thanks for reporting that. I've been tempted to do the same thing and glad to hear it'll work out. Just wondered if there was enought room inside the brick to wire a female DC plug in the case and put a male DC plug on the no-longer-shredded end of the cable? Ideally, this would stop future fraying as the plug would just pop out instead. . .

>Anyway, you can take a screwdriver and pop open the case of the adapter
>as it
>is only lightly glued; find the black and white wires that go into the small
>external cable and cut both wires. One is the positive and the other is the
>shield or negative. You will be able to identify same on the cable part as
>well. Strip the cable and reconnect the two wires - black to black and white
>to white.
>
>I then used small wire nuts to hold the wires together although one could
>just as well solder. I then snapped the ac adapter case back together again
>and used black electrical tape to prevent the cable from having an external
>pressure on the joint and taped the case and cable together. It doesn't look
>very pretty, but the repaired adapters are the ones I leave home hiding
>behind my desk all the time anyway.
>
>Dallas


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