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DS Misc > Where? Guide Nintendo recharger to USB 2.0 recharger

#79388 - ?hr - Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:17 am

Hi, i want to modify this adapter(original europe Advance SP/NDS recharger)
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/108/2803m6vp.jpg
to get a usb recharger to charge my DS.
Can someone show me a guide, how i can do this?

#79394 - HtheB - Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:00 pm

why not just buying a usb charger?

#79398 - juhees - Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:11 pm

?hr GmbH wrote:
Hi, i want to modify this adapter(original europe Advance SP/NDS recharger)
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/108/2803m6vp.jpg
to get a usb recharger to charge my DS.
Can someone show me a guide, how i can do this?


I've done that, it's so simple, you won't need a big guide ;-)
A Standart-A USB has 5V+ and ground left and right (look it up on wikipedia or google and don't mix them up...)

Cut your charger cable and deisolate the two wires. One is 5.3V, one is ground (just test them with your multimeter (Voltmeter). Deisolate your USB cable and check with you multimeter, which of the 4 cables is 5V and which is ground. The other two are data+ and data-. Isolate them (dont shorten them). Connect the 5V from your USB to the 5V of your DS adapter, same with ground and isolate them.
Done.
Now you can create a 220V -> 5V adapter with rest of the cables and charge your DS still without a PC ;-)

But yes, buying one is can be cheaper!

warning: if you do something wrong, you can:
- destroy your DS charger
- destroy your DS
- destroy your PC
so double check everything with your multimeter

#79399 - MaHe - Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:13 pm

http://www.darkain.com/nintendo_ds/usbcable.php ;)
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#79402 - ?hr - Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:30 pm

MaHe wrote:
http://www.darkain.com/nintendo_ds/usbcable.php ;)

thx ill try that out!

@htheb,
if you buy me one?? :P

#79414 - Dudu.exe - Thu Apr 13, 2006 2:34 pm

Ive made a Usb cabe for me. works great!


This tutorial is great.. but i dint need it =]



just put RED USB CABLE with green DS Chager cabe

And Black USB cable with the ouside ds charger cable.. and it will work amazing!
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#79429 - ?hr - Thu Apr 13, 2006 5:41 pm

i only need a unused usb cable.
my advance sp charger is defect, but the cabel is still ok, so ill do it today(later...)

#79550 - HyperHacker - Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:54 am

Dudu.exe wrote:
Ive made a Usb cabe for me. works great!


This tutorial is great.. but i dint need it =]



just put RED USB CABLE with green DS Chager cabe

And Black USB cable with the ouside ds charger cable.. and it will work amazing!

Assuming all USB cables and adaptors (I'm sure there's plenty of third-party adaptors) have the same wire colours.

#79599 - tepples - Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:17 pm

HyperHacker wrote:
Assuming all USB cables and adaptors (I'm sure there's plenty of third-party adaptors) have the same wire colours.

Red for hot and black for neutral is nearly universal within PC electronics, and it may even be required by the USB spec.
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#82635 - octopusfluff - Mon May 08, 2006 1:29 am

tepples wrote:
Red for hot and black for neutral is nearly universal within PC electronics, and it may even be required by the USB spec.


It is in fact required by the USB spec... but that doesn't mean every manufacturer /follows/ it to the letter always.

A device can be certified at the design stage as matching the USB specifications, and then for whatever reason they change sheathe color for the USB cable during production. (it was cheaper to get periwinkle and fuschia, or some dude just got the colors backwards when feeding the machine)

Always always always test leads with a multimeter before hooking them into something that could get cooked from wrong polarity.