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>


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