Question about cx105 charger wiring

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Hi :)

This is a bit difficult to explain, so bear with me please :)

my question, bottom line, is if anyone knows how many and what kind of wires I will find if I was to cut open the wire on a stock cx105 camera recharger that comes with the camera. I want to separate the black box (ac/dc transformer) from the plug bit that plugs into the camera, and attach small connectors to each wire so that I am able to easily disconnect and reconnect the transformer from the camera in a scenario where the recharge connection at the camera side is made permanent. has anyone ever opened one and can tell me how many wires and what kinds are in there? is there any shielding? would it be possible to weld it all to plastic connectors that can easily attache and detach, and still get good results when recharging the camera and not blow anything up? I am of course talking about the DC side of the transformer, between the transformer and the camera, the AC side that goes to the wall was already made detachable by sony.

here's why im asking.

I have cx105 in a tonfly box and helmet, attached with zkulls. I am looking into changing my setup so that the camera, box and hypeye are all one piece and there is no need to take the camera out of the box.

Iv solved most of my problems but one remains - recharging. Iv seen many people cut off a small section of the box to expose the recharge port and allow access to the charger cable with the camera still in the box. unfortunately that is not possible in my case as the zkulls connection on the box is directly over the charge port in the camera. the only solution I have found is to pass the charger wire through the zkulls, attach it to the camera and screw the camera into the box, living it permanently attached to the charger. only problem is, then im stuck with the charger itself (the black box that plugs in the wall) dangling from my helmet, ugly and heavy. so thats why I want to cut it, and still be able to reattach it :)

thanks for any info you have!

[theonlyski 8]

See HERE

Go a couple posts down and JarheadNYC posts some of the parts and a partial write up that I sent him. I didn't have a chance to make an actual write up for it, but if you need any help, let me know and I will show you the way.

You should be fairly decent at soldering if you're going to do this, don't just wrap wires and tape them, Its shoddy workmanship and will end up screwing up at the worst possible time.

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Thank you! that looks even better then what I had in mind.

I can do a decent job with the soldering, but my expirience with electronics is limited to DIY electric guitar effects, soldering small components to a board, never fiddled with power supllies. I can buy the DC plug and mount localy.

Could you please explain, when I cut the DC power line, will it simply be a matter of soldering three wires to the plug on one end and the mount on the other? Is the cable shilded, and if so do I also solder the shilding to the plug and mount?

Thank you so much for your help :-)

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Thank you! that looks even better then what I had in mind.

I can do a decent job with the soldering, but my expirience with electronics is limited to DIY electric guitar effects, soldering small components to a board, never fiddled with power supllies. I can buy the DC plug and mount localy.

Could you please explain, when I cut the DC power line, will it simply be a matter of soldering three wires to the plug on one end and the mount on the other? Is the cable shilded, and if so do I also solder the shilding to the plug and mount?

Thank you so much for your help :-)

There is only 2 wires on the power cable at the DC end. Positive and negative (7.3 volts or something like that)

Just solder the DC plug and jack so that the wire with the white strip is the same on both sides. (IE center/pin is white stripe, outside/shield is the black wire)

It is an extremely simple modification to do, just don't reverse the wires.

Its far better to test with a voltmeter before and after on the plug, so you know which side is positive and negative, and once you're done, test it again to confirm it.

Then put heatshrink over the wires (individually) to ensure that they don't bend and short out. Mine works like a champ!

"I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly
DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890
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That's perfect, just what i needed.

blue skies mate ;-)

[theonlyski 8]

No problem, don't forget to post pictures!

"I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly
DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890
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