{"id":2631,"date":"2015-08-17T16:33:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T16:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2015-08-17T16:43:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T16:43:42","slug":"surface-pro-3-charger-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/surface-pro-3-charger-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Surface Pro 3 Charger “Repair”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The charger on my Wife’s Surface failed, it was a cheap eBay replacement so I wasn’t hugely surprised that it failed after 6 months. I ordered a replacement but to get things up and running again I decided to fiddle with the existing charger.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I found when I removed the casing around the connector. The frayed cables had shorted and also blow the SMD fuse:<\/p>\n

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Here’s the temporary fix, I’m not proud. I was too lazy to make my way to a soldering iron and separating out the wires and shorting the fuse got the Surface charging and made my wife happy:<\/p>\n

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Here’s the medium term solution, re-soldered the wires. I’m not terribly happy with this but it’ll hold out until the new charger arrives. It seems like a poor design choice that the wires are just soldered to SMD pads not through-hole, and that the ground wire is unshielded (for the observant reader, yes the wires are opposite way round I flipped the polarity at the other end).<\/p>\n

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To provide some insulation I then stuck some heatshrink over the top, with a slit in it for the connector to poke out. That seemed to work reasonably well.<\/p>\n

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