I hope someone can help.
I have the standard white iphone car charger. Last night my son pulled on the cable and it got totally disconnected from the connector. You can see the 2 electric cables, orange and yellow.
I opened up the connector and tried to figure out how to reconnect it (which the "reconnect" looks simple), but I don't know which cable goes to what hole.
Can someone help or guide me to find the pin layout.
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To check the voltage, you'd use V (or Volt, and for as it isn't Alternating Current, you'd always use DC). to check the resistance of wires, or where it is going, you'd use Ohm, or often there is a special setting for that, it may look like a musical note, it would make a sound if the wire goes through. For those measurements make sure you aren't connected to a power source.
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Just thought of the easiest way to do this without having to look at better pics. Measure the Voltage output of your normal mains charger with your multi-meter, then connect your leads on the broken car charger so you measure the same values at the same places (make sure you have the the + and the - values at the correct place). That should be all.
You use the multimeter, and measure the voltage (set it to DC) which comes out at the mains adapter, the part which connects to the iPhone. The Multimeter should display a + or a - along with the Voltage. It should also have leads colored differently (usually red and black). Make a note which colored lead was connected to which connection during the measurement.
Now measure the wires of your car adapter, again not what colored leads of the meter are attached to what wires of the adapter. If you get the same + or - value as during the other measurement, then you can attach the wires to the same connection as what you had when you measured the mains adapter. If the + / - value is different, then you need to invert the two leads.
I greatly appreciate your patience!
For what I understand, what you are recommending would tell me the positions or x/- pf the charger wire. If that's correct, I don't know how it would help me re-connect those wires to the grey box (see pic).
I need to know which cable (red and yellow) of the iPhone charger goes to what hole in the grey box.
I have place a pic showing the grey box as it appears. There is 4 slots or holes. In what hole should insert the red wire and what hole the yellow wire? The pic provided tries to set the image oriantaion and references.
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here is a pic indicating the holes as it appears
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Yes, poke one Voltmeter lead into one slot, and the other lead into another, and check what reading you get. If you get 0 Volt or something very close to 0 Volts (below 0.xxxx Volts, then there is no connection. If you get a reading above 0 Volts, you have found out that the wires are attached to those 2 slots.
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by: rindiPosted on 2009-10-08 at 02:53:53ID: 25523523
Use a multimeter to measure the voltage and check what is + and what is - then the device is in the car's cigarette lighter. then use it to measure which wire goes to which outlet of the socket you would connect to the iphone. After that check the phone's manual, or also look at it closely, you should normally see a +and a - where the socket is described, which should show you whether the inner pin is plus or the outer part of the socket (usually the inner part is +). Then according to that info you can resolder your wires. Before connecting it to the phone, measure the voltage again to make sure it is correct.