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Have anyone see Xin's supermicro? it runs off a 1.5v AAA battery, and will most likely be able to fit inside the case of the stock ipod. might be a good amp to be placed inside, and from I heard, it sounds pretty good for something that small
hey all, i'm sure this has been asked before but....
I have a 4th gen ipod.
I removed the Z caps off the PCB board (C84/C86) and soldered down 2 wires respectively.
I want to connect the newly soldered wires to the headphone jack of the ipod.
I inserted a 3.5mm mini plug into the headphone jack, I used a DMM to figure out which is left/right, but for some reason both channels and the ground show continuity??
edit: i do not understand why there is continuity, shouldn't the channels be seperated
Is something wrong with my ipod jack?
Can someone circle which should be the L/R/Gnd channels?
I don't know why you're measuring continuity between channels and ground, but you ought to test with the voltmeter instead of the ohmmeter. See if it's safe to use the jack with the voltmeter; 20mV is the upper limit for safe us with headphones. Also, you can check for sound with crappy headphones to see if it works. Are you using BGs inside your iPod, or are you putting the caps in an external case, connecting with a mini-to-some kind of connector? Either way, here is the picture.
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I got tired of charging, playing, charging, playing, etc to burn-in my caps for the diyMod Nano. It would take forever to burn-in at this rate. I decided to make a dock similar to KokoKrunch's to play and charge at the same time, but I did not want a long usb cable attached to it.
So I decided to attach a female USB connector to it instead. I got lucky and remembered that the dollar store close to my Uni has female to male USB cables for $1. I took one female end for the iPod dock, and soldered the two male ends together.
It took me quite a few hours to get everything working. Here are a few hints:
1) BUY USB 2.0 cables (i.e. not from the dollar store). Initially the iPod would not charge or get detected, but you can tell something is going on since the screen goes bright as you charge it. In my linux box, it threw a bunch of errors. A quick google shows that some USB 2.0 devices do NOT work with low-quality cables (the one I bought and most USB 1.1 cables). I will spare the details on how I got it working.
2) Open iTunes, go to the summary of the iPod, check "manually manage music".
3) The iPod will have the standard "do not disconnect screen". Just eject it through iTunes and it should charge and play at the same time.
I got tired of charging, playing, charging, playing, etc to burn-in my caps for the diyMod Nano. It would take forever to burn-in at this rate. I decided to make a dock similar to KokoKrunch's to play and charge at the same time, but I did not want a long usb cable attached to it.
So I decided to attach a female USB connector to it instead. I got lucky and remembered that the dollar store close to my Uni has female to male USB cables for $1. I took one female end for the iPod dock, and soldered the two male ends together.
It took me quite a few hours to get everything working. Here are a few hints:
1) BUY USB 2.0 cables (i.e. not from the dollar store). Initially the iPod would not charge or get detected, but you can tell something is going on since the screen goes bright as you charge it. In my linux box, it threw a bunch of errors. A quick google shows that some USB 2.0 devices do NOT work with low-quality cables (the one I bought and most USB 1.1 cables). I will spare the details on how I got it working.
2) Open iTunes, go to the summary of the iPod, check "manually manage music".
3) The iPod will have the standard "do not disconnect screen". Just eject it through iTunes and it should charge and play at the same time.
Pictures:
nice, now we know that the right pins for those...you do that at the school Christine ?
