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Post by jojo on Jul 11, 2012 11:17:06 GMT
Not sure where to put this, there isn't a hardware section on CIT as such.
But have a feeling the principal may be of interest to some.
I recently got a new mobile phone. Cheap as chips, PAYG.
Anyway, there's this headphone lead for the radio.
Now I've noticed a few things about these leads over the years.
Firstly, few of us ever actually use them.
Second, they don't last very long.
Third, they cost a bomb to replace.
Now this one has a standard jack plug, apart from having 4 terminals. Not uncommon on phones, though many use mini din.
Never actually understood why the pluc has 4 points. Even with a volume control, it still only needs 3 and this one doesn't have a volume control.
Stripped it down. The individual wire cores are individually insulated, so will need a bit of scraping.
Discovered that the first and second points, from the plug body, are the same. So basically it's a 3 point plug, the 4th is there to throw you off.
Might be useful for some. Not a lot of help if you have a mini DIN.
Might be useful for some to know, who have a soldering iron and like to tinker though.
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