USB Car Power Bar

Step 2 Fixing cheap crap

This is the underside of the 12V Power Accessory USB charger.  My $2,99 device wasn't working when I got it, so being the hacker that I am, I took it apart.  It seems this here quality product was rather hastily put together.  The USB port itself has a total of 6 prongs that poke into the ciruit board.  Two on the outside are large and are meant to hold it in place while the 4 smaller ones are in the middle and two of which are soldered into the circuit.  Well one of the large ones wasn't even through the hole in the board (bent) and one of the smaller ones was also bent.  So basically it wasn't even hooked up.  I desoldered it, cleaned it, straightened out the pins, resoldered it and then hot-glued the pins for more stability.  Worked just fine.