On May 30, 2006, at 8:43 PM, Brian ONeal wrote: > Bill King and I were talking about the iBook G4 connector at last > weeks meeting, it has 4 contacts. 3 on the tip and one circular > collar ground. > > I had to take out a few inches in three spots this evening, thanks > to a bad kitty. > Well, it seems that it is just two wires, one positive center > conductor and one negative braid. > I can only assume that the other two contacts are for the LED that > changes colors from amber to green during the charge cycle.
I had to do surgery on one of mine last winter and used this [1] Apple TechNote, which has all the schematics. [1] <http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1266.html> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be June 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
