I just get my wharf adaptor in the mail . So of course , I want to destruct this one .
The dock adapter has a shaping eggshell on it that is glued . You ca n’t cleanly get it off without the dremel , as the glue is not live glue , that I can state .
Peter from Double Helix Cableswas nice enough to give us a aspect into his deep dive into the recesses of Apple ’s unexampled $ 29 dock arranger , and whether it ’s in reality deserving the cash .
Once you get it open , there are two stick - on metallic element heating shields , that remove to reveal copper foil covering the lightning stopper area .
Next you must disrobe the bastard center steel piece off , which bring out the lightning heart of the transcriber . The lightning plug is steel reinforce now with a large steel molding integrate with it , then it attach with a ribbon cable . There is a rubber dampening opus around it . All in all this thing is beautifully construct like a cruel puzzle .
in the end the brand cage that surrounds it . Steel tab key insert through the circuit instrument panel , there is silicone ignominious crud and a slight coating of epoxy all over the chip inside . The board is u - shaped around surrounds the lightning plug and its medal cord . Removing it intact – with the force involved to bend the brand – means that it is n’t going to be modded by anyone anytime soon . To get at the contacts for the audio output to somehow whoop a cable length to this and make a dock audio output cable – would require a Ph.D. in electric engineering and specialised puppet . Probably a CNC to make the cut to remove the brand cage . I receive the steel cage off using tungsten carbide skip hand dick , a dremel , and I still had to veer into the circuit board ( likely nonfunctional projection of the circumference gameboard , the longsighted narrow role of the atomic number 92 - shape ) to get the display board out . Further time was involve to get off all the crud on the chips .
The chips take care unfamiliar , but with the same metal finish and some have lasered text edition . They all seem to be custom and trying to calculate out what does what is fruitless . I really took this apart for the DIY residential area to watch if the DAC in this thing is actually good , but it ’s quite unreadable . It ’s credibly some integrated sound circuitry in a larger processing chip shot , that ’s how these things tend to be done now . One of the chips reads Apple on it with a very long serial number . Another reads 8533 23AP CAB .
The dock connective is hyperdelicate when removed from its slip . It is literally float there with just its pin confiscate it , and the pins are ultra o.k. as common . Again , in force luck modding this thing . Even if you did mod it , making something that would be appeal to depend at and profitable to sell , is fundamentally not going to happen . I really had high hope that I could get into this thing and attach an audio output cable , but I should have known well . This thing is even more fearsomely reinforced than the Lightning USB cord , by a agent of 10 , sure as shooting to scotch those that want to hack it , and also so that it can not break easily . Nobody should balk at paying $ 29 for this after they see what is inside , though . The $ 39 wire translation of this should be similar , with the lightning end simply distance from the dock circuitry by a cable .
Got two more of these coming in the chain mail that I intend to use , and not mod . This one took me most of the good afternoon to take apart .
Double Helix Cables has been around since 2009 , and take a shit custom cable television service and adapters for nearly anything on the planet .
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