[eddiewalker]

Wow, I hate soldering 1/8" jacks, and im sure the ipod pins are even worse. Good job on the clean execution.

 

[radio]

I am about to make the lod for my nano 8gb.

- are there any suppliers of this in canada/us?
- have any of you added the power/charging capacity to it?

thanx

 

[fordgtlover]

Does the nano use the standard iPod connector?

 

[FallenAngel]

radio:

1) Not that I know of, grab some from Ridax, shipping is fairly fast.
2) I connected firewire power pins to a 12V regulator and I'm using this in my car through a power inverter/transformer combo. I heard that this the Power V- pins may somehow be connected to the ground on the IPod so it might not work with ground channel amps. Have not verified it though.

fordgtlover: Yes.

 

[Tridacnid]

Does anyone know how to make one for a Zune?

 

[xnothingpoetic]

Thanks for the informative post! I built my first LOD yesterday and I was surprised it went so well and worked on the first try with no problems (except one weak solder point, but an easy fix).

I had to deal with smaller pins than those docks (I striped a dock from an ipod accessory), so when the mail man delivers my new docks I expect it to go even easier.


Btw I didn't do the female dock yet.

 

[Tridacnid]

Or how to identify which pin is which?

 

[Tridacnid]

Nobody knows how to figure it out?

 

[FallenAngel]

Search for it buddy.

http://www.ipodlinux.org/Dock_Connector

 

[wgr73]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tridacnid /img/forum/go_quote.gif Nobody knows how to figure it out?

FallenAngel left a great link. If you look at his first picture, at the very top left is pin one. Then right under that, pin two...then up and to the right, pin three...then under that, pin four. See the pattern? You just have to make sure that the LOD is turned the right way...otherwise you will be soldering pins 27-30!!!

 

[wgr73]

You can also see in my signature, my tutorial...its got close-ups of the pins with numbers next to them.

 

[Tridacnid]

The Zune dock connector is different than the iPods, so that is why I was asking. I was just kind of skeptical that the pins would do the same thing, but I am a n00b.

 

[wgr73]

lol, its cool

 

[xnothingpoetic]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tridacnid /img/forum/go_quote.gif Or how to identify which pin is which?

1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30


That helped me out

 

[applegd]

I plan to build one LOD for my 4G ipod.

I will buy the ipod dock connectors from Qables(From Europe, Is there any dealer in USA?) and braided sleeving, but my headache is how to shield the cable if I use silver wire+Teflon tube?