Hi all,
this is my wife old laptop..purchased back in 2009..still quite smooth and has been utilise by her and the kids. After several time facing the problem with it charger such as overheat, melting, magnet connector damaged, then fix it again as in the link for several time.
this is my wife old laptop..purchased back in 2009..still quite smooth and has been utilise by her and the kids. After several time facing the problem with it charger such as overheat, melting, magnet connector damaged, then fix it again as in the link for several time.
then..i decided to install the charger cable permanently with the hope that it can last long.
Since this laptop stay at the same place and not moving around. so, it is safe to, i guess, to permanently install its charger cable, as long as its working.
Figure 1: Disassemble the macbook to access the charger circuit (picture shown mainboard) |
Disassembley and fixing step:
1) The first step was to remove back cover to have acces to internal circuitary.
2) Once back cover is open, disconnect the battery connector first to cut/remove supply from battery to the circuit. This is important to make sure no damage happen to mainboard during repair work.
3) remove battery by unscrew it.
4) then, remove the internal cooling fan ( unscrew 3 screw and lift off its supply connector)
5) after that, mainboard circuit can be taken out from macbook body after removing 6 screw.
6) locate charger circuit near the end of mainboard circuit (shown in figure 2).
Figure 2: Charger circuit. |
7) add 5 additional cable from charger to charger circuit. Soldering work will be a bit tricky due to the tight space. Make sure there is no short circuit.
Figure 3: Soldering work a bit tricky. |
Figure 4: Outcome after soldering. very tight in space, so precision are required |
8) Once soldering are complete, check for any short circuit visually and by multimeter. After confirm that not problem with soldering, assemble back the laptop in reverse order.
9) Test the laptop with power supply once assemble is completed, and the outcome shown in figure 5 below.
Figure 5: Charger are tested ok after assembley of Macbook. |
Testing with power supply shown that laptop battery charging properly. Now, my Macbook can work again.
Hopefully, this will help other who have similar problem.
Excellent information, I like your post.
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