Vengeance 2100 charging station

[MG2R]

This is a quick-and-dirty project I've been putting off for a long time. I refused

to do this on my dying Vengeance 2000s. However, last week, Corsair has

sent me a pair of 2100s to replace the 2000s who finally gave their last breath.

 

The idea was to have a little hanger for the headphones which would also charge

them. This way, they would always charge overnight and never be dead when

I wanted to use them, all the while freeing up space on my desk.

 

I started by taking the included USB cable and clipping it into two pieces. The

idea here is that the headphones stay complete and usable without the station

as well, so I won't be soldering any leads directly to them.

 

Because of that, I'll be using the micro-usb end of the cable on the microphone.

That way, I can just unplug it and plug in a regular USB->microUSB cable.

 

 

I took some thick gauge solid-core copper wire. This will become the actual

hanger itself. It's stiff enough to hold the weight of the headphones without

bending. I soldered the power leads of the USB cable to the copper wire and

made everything nice and tidy with some heat shrink.

 

 

Then, I took that wire and wrapped it around the handles of my Bitfenix Prodigy

in such a way that there is enough wire left to suspend the headphones on.

 

 

I then took some flexible copper wire, strip the insulation around it and wrapped

it around the headset a couple times. I made two of these contact points. I then

took the microUSB cable and soldered the power leads to the contact points. The

microUSB cable plugs into the charging port of the headset and the headset is

ready for use.

 

 

The only thing left to do was strip the insulation of the solid-core wire, in order to

make electrical contact possible. The red ring around the charging port indicates

it's working

 

 

As I said this was a quick 'n' dirty hack. Nothing more, nothing less. The system

works great and I'll be happy to use this.

 

 

Disclaimer

Just a little 'do this on your own risk'. I'm an engineer and have had electronics

courses. I know my way around electricity. If you don't, maybe you shouldn't be

doing this, get some training first. Whatever you do, don't come crying to me if

you blow up your USB port

[megadarkwood]

Man, that ghetto iron stand.

[MG2R]

Man, that ghetto iron stand.

Ghetto is my style

[Crimluck]

This is a quick-and-dirty project I've been putting off for a long time. I refused

to do this on my dying Vengeance 2000s. However, last week, Corsair has

sent me a pair of 2100s to replace the 2000s who finally gave their last breath.

The idea was to have a little hanger for the headphones which would also charge

them. This way, they would always charge overnight and never be dead when

I wanted to use them, all the while freeing up space on my desk.

I started by taking the included USB cable and clipping it into two pieces. The

idea here is that the headphones stay complete and usable without the station

as well, so I won't be soldering any leads directly to them.

Because of that, I'll be using the micro-usb end of the cable on the microphone.

That way, I can just unplug it and plug in a regular USB->microUSB cable.

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I took some thick gauge solid-core copper wire. This will become the actual

hanger itself. It's stiff enough to hold the weight of the headphones without

bending. I soldered the power leads of the USB cable to the copper wire and

made everything nice and tidy with some heat shrink.

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Then, I took that wire and wrapped it around the handles of my Bitfenix Prodigy

in such a way that there is enough wire left to suspend the headphones on.

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I then took some flexible copper wire, strip the insulation around it and wrapped

it around the headset a couple times. I made two of these contact points. I then

took the microUSB cable and soldered the power leads to the contact points. The

microUSB cable plugs into the charging port of the headset and the headset is

ready for use.

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The only thing left to do was strip the insulation of the solid-core wire, in order to

make electrical contact possible. The red ring around the charging port indicates

it's working

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As I said this was a quick 'n' dirty hack. Nothing more, nothing less. The system

works great and I'll be happy to use this.

Disclaimer

Just a little 'do this on your own risk'. I'm an engineer and have had electronics

courses. I know my way around electricity. If you don't, maybe you shouldn't be

doing this, get some training first. Whatever you do, don't come crying to me if

you blow up your USB port

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I was just wondering how hard to learn by myself from the internet and also how dangerous soldering is(possible injuries, etc.)?

Thank you in advance for your response.

[MG2R]

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I was just wondering how hard to learn by myself from the internet and also how dangerous soldering is(possible injuries, etc.)?

Thank you in advance for your response.

No problem. Soldering is actually pretty easy, there are numerous guides on YouTube.

As long as you don't touch the wrong end of the soldering iron, you won't get hurt. But, accidents do happen.

In fact, I make it into a sport to burn myself at least once on any project

[Crimluck]

No problem. Soldering is actually pretty easy, there are numerous guides on YouTube.

As long as you don't touch the wrong end of the soldering iron, you won't get hurt. But, accidents do happen.

In fact, I make it into a sport to burn myself at least once on any project

I'll give it a try in near future, just not so long ago the cable on my earphones got damaged, cost me pretty penny and I was pretty mad, luckily, it was just the exterior, but it became much fragile so I ghetto taped it with electrical tape

Read/searched on some repairs, most of it contained soldering(they thought the cable broke off in most situations), so I guess I'd better learn it, seems really useful as a skill

[LarsReviews]

No problem. Soldering is actually pretty easy, there are numerous guides on YouTube.

As long as you don't touch the wrong end of the soldering iron, you won't get hurt. But, accidents do happen.

In fact, I make it into a sport to burn myself at least once on any project

 

Did you use a professional soldering iron? At home I have a cheap one and when I was working for 2 weeks at a homeappliance and electronic I was allowed to fix Set Top boxes with a pro Iron, it had all kinds of setting options and a display. That made like a 300% difference. 

 

Edit: THIS IS MY 500TH POST!!!

[MG2R]

Did you use a professional soldering iron? At home I have a cheap one and when I was working for 2 weeks at a homeappliance and electronic I was allowed to fix Set Top boxes with a pro Iron, it had all kinds of setting options and a display. That made like a 300% difference. 

I use a standard 15W iron. Really cheap, nothing fancy.

 

I've used top of the mill stuff as well. Difference wasn't big enough to justify the price IMO.

[LarsReviews]

I use a standard 15W iron. Really cheap, nothing fancy.

 

I've used top of the mill stuff as well. Difference wasn't big enough to justify the price IMO.

 

I am probably using the wrong soldering stuff. How does the station connect to the headphones? It looks like the thick wires are still isolated?

[MG2R]

I am probably using the wrong soldering stuff. How does the station connect to the headphones? It looks like the thick wires are still isolated?

Yeah, it's kinda hard to see in the pictures due to low light condition, but the wires are actually stripped:

 

[simson0606]

only thing is you have to hang it the right way around so you don't short out the headset... maybe add a diode, just to be sure

[MG2R]

only thing is you have to hang it the right way around so you don't short out the headset... maybe add a diode, just to be sure

I'm pretty sure it's protected inside... Let's test

 

EDIT: yep, it's fine

Edited September 2, 2014 by MG2R

[BaSkA]

That was a pretty cool idea... If only we could get some wireless charging stations knowledge easily and have fun DIYing

[Captain_Slow]

I'll just wait for corsair to do this for their vengeance 2200