- #Apple macbook charger 60w magsafe target driver#
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I like my damn useful console, instead of whatever the hell windows gives you.
#Apple macbook charger 60w magsafe target android#
I will buy an Apple when I graduate though because I enjoy the OS more than any windows OS, and hell, I'll take the android argument of "having more freedom". I really enjoy working on it at work, but at home I have a linux box and a windows gaming PC, so no, I am not an apple fanboy. I (obviously) like apples, however I do not currently own one. Especially when 98% of the end users are as clueless as your sister. Sure, companies should just design their products so that the end user can fix them. Hell, I'd LOVE to hear the response for ANY computer company asking them if you can use anything except the original charger supplied with the computer. I'd LOVE to hear the response you get for ANY computer company asking them if they support you fixing the power adapter for their computers.
Off topic: Sure is a lot of apple hate in this thread. On Topic: Don't risk it, just buy the new apple charger. I'm on the other hand, working on an old FSC laptop with over 35000 working hours, and still with the original PSU. This charger was only 2.5 years old and moderately used, and failed not long after the warranty was over. So the question is, would it be possible to run it from 19V the whole time? Because I would rather use a standard laptop PSU, instead of buying a genuine apple charger (which everyone knows is the greatest design fail in apples history, it's so flawed ). The problem is, that the charger gives out 2 voltages, 16.5V and 18.5V, presumably load dependent (because there is no feedback path between mac and charger). The cable from the carger is also only 2way, so the magic happens in the magsafe connector, where a 1wire eeprom is located. So I thought, if it wouldn't be possible, to connect a normal 19V 4.5A laptop PSU (which I have a few lying around for no particular purpose) with the existing charging cable, to run the mac with that. The SMDs are also stuck down with some sort of red glue (maybe epoxy) which makes it impossible to desolder even the smallest SMD component.
#Apple macbook charger 60w magsafe target driver#
So the charger is pretty much unrepairable, because the main driver IC is maybe a proprietary chip, with no datasheet available on the internet. I also checked the main filter cap, and the output caps - all were fine. Then I desoldered most of the main switching semiconductors, and tested them - all were fine. I located the fuses (input and output) and both were fine. It seems that Apple has a contract with 3M, because there was so much glue and tape in that charger, i haven't seen something like this before After finally getting down to the PCB, I inspected it thoroughly but found no obviously charred components. So I opened the charger carefully, which took forever. Right at this point, I was pretty sure that the charger is at fault, because with a broken cable the voltage would've been 0V.
Then I measured the voltage on the magsafe jack, and wondered that it was only 0,45V. So I inspected the cable, which was fine. The charger worked since then, without any problems, until yesterday. She had the standard problem with the broken cable a half year ago, which I fixed for her with some soldering and a few layers of heatshrink- tubing.
#Apple macbook charger 60w magsafe target pro#
Hi! My sister has a macbook pro 17" with a magsafe 85W charger.