Philips shaver won’t charge? Fix it :) (Philishave)

Philips shaver won’t charge? Fix it 🙂 (Philishave)

OK, so my shaver decided to make weird noises and weird smells when connected to the mains – indicating that death was not far away.

So, here’s how to fix it.

You need 1 * 50 ohm resistor, 1 * USB cable, 1 * soldering iron.

50 ohms will give max 100mA charge rate.

Disassemble the shaver, cut off the now useless mains pins. (You’ll need a weird star-shaped screwdriver.)

Cut the female plug from the USB cable, strip back about 5cm of wire, and cut off the white and green wires – you only need the red and black wires. (That’s unless you want to build in a memory stick too!)

Attach the 50 ohm resistor in series with the red wire and the battery, and attach the black wire to the negative battery terminal. (I didn’t have any 50 ohm resistors handy, so this picture has two 80 ohm resistors in parallel to give 40 ohms.)

Charging time will be around 10-15 hours.

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