[PLUG-TALK] Replacing USB cable end
Galen Seitz
galens at seitzassoc.com
Tue Feb 12 01:20:50 UTC 2008
Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> Russell Senior wrote:
>>>>>>> "Richard" == Richard C Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net> writes:
>
>> Richard> Meanwhile, has anyone tried replacing the plug on a USB
>> Richard> cable? It's usually not worth the trouble, and that may be
>> Richard> true in this case, too, but I'm too cheap not to think about
>> Richard> it at least.
>>
>> I've done it with full sized USB-A connectors. I bought some USB plug
>> kits from mouser.com. Looking just now, I didn't see the equivalent
>> for mini USB plugs, but I didn't look very hard either.
>
> Thanks. Knowing someone else had done it successfully was mostly what I
> was hoping to hear. I'll look around for the mini plug and see what I find.
>
I suspect that one could do fairly ugly things to a USB full speed
connection and still have it work. The same cannot be said for a high
speed connection.
galen
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