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Macgyver Phone Charging

Step 2Making your Charge station

Making your Charge station
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For making the charge station I used:

1 Breadboard
2 Pieces of wire ( snipped of from a resistor )
1 Powersupply

As you can see, the contraption is quite simple, just make sure the two wires touch te connector at the right places, and turn on your power supply.

!!!!! Make sure your power supply supply's the right voltage, I knew that the original charger charges the phone with 5.1 Volts. So I figured that 5 Volts would work to. !!!!!

At first I used a 7805 voltage regulator to make the 5 Volts. But after 5 minutes smoke came out the regulator. (I didn't know that this phone is charged with over 1A current...........)

So after that setback I just went with te power supply's native voltage of 4.5Volts which works perfectly.

Don't look at the crap that is still in the breadbord, it's just some project that I'm working on, that had to make some place.

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