My Simple World

the new look of my earphone

After finally locating the defect on my Shuffle earphone’s O Panel I went to the electronic hobby center to buy the necessary materials for my attempt to fix the defective part of my player. I tried to make a very good preparation and a plan so that there will be a 75% hope that I will be able to recover my earphone and avoid buying a new set which will cost about a thousand from my budget. Hmmm anyways, after I purchased the materials I went home immediately. I was excited and a bit scared for what will happen after my experiment. And so I arrived at our residence. Then, I prepared the table for which will serve as my bench working area, the lights, soldering iron, and a few more tools that I need. I started pulling out the cover of the button in a very careful way so that damage will be prevented. I saw the disconnected strands of insulated wire and check the proper connections of those things. They have different colors- green and red. After that I started to cut down a small length of that wire and applied a solder on it. There were four strands to solder and two joints to make. I was very careful on exposing it to the soldering iron because there is a tiny circuit intended for the button’s mechanism and I know that too much heat might damage and led to severe malfunctions of the whole earphone. Then, because of my carefulness at work, I was successful in bringing the disconnected parts together. Now, it’s time to test whether if the unit is still working or not. At first try, I was so happy because it worked but after a few switch on the button the problem came again. I think it was disconnected again. So, I made a rework on it and I tried to make it better in terms of soldering. At last, the earphone of my Shuffle was saved by me and I was able to save my money from buying a new expensive earphone.