My repaired digital camera ac adapter

[drakon]

My ac adapter for my digital camera completely stopped working. This was terrible because I use this camera as my little studio to take pictures/videos of my work (just finished 1 commission have two more in progress). I opened up the case. Found that the traces had bubbled and traces connecting a really large cap basically weren't connected anymore. I repaired the damaged traces then looked at what might have possibly caused the damage. The way this adapter works is you rotate the pins that plug into an outlet. But the pins don't connect to the pcb unless they're in the upright position. The connection probably went in and out of touching causing pcb damage. I took an old power bar that blew up a while ago when my first hot glue gun burst into flames. I then lobbed off the outlet cord from the power bar, used my probe (a hacked up s-video cable) to find out which pins connected to what wires (this power cable was 3 prong but I only needed two), soldered the correct wires straight into the ac adapter, and removed the unused third prong so I could plug this thing into my 2 prong extension cables.

Works great now! Today I'm buying a project box to build around this thing so I don't risk electric shock.



By the way I don't recommend that people try this unless they're good at what they do. Me personally I hate working with something that deals with 120v but I really needed this camera to be working.....

.....and I know what I'm doing