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Lenovo ThinkPad Onelink Pro Dock to USB c

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Short answer: no

 

Longer answer: probably not. Type C is a very complicated connector with an even more complicated protocol making it work. I'm not familiar with that particular dock, but I can almost guarantee Lenovo didn't implement a type-c standard into a non standard connector. If they did, they would have just used the type-c connector. This leads me to believe they developed their own communication protocol for the various interfaces broken out on that dock. Best case scenario you might be able to get power and maybe USB 2.0 through a type C cable you hack off and solder in place of that yellow guy, but first you'd need a pinout and good luck finding that. This is also assuming they ran normal D+ and D- lines in that connector instead of encoding the signals in some proprietary protocol. Sorry to poo on your idea, but I don't think it's possible. If it is possible, it's not worth your time given how inexpensive thunderbolt 3 docks have gotten.

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So I have a ThinkPad Onelink Pro Dock model nr DU9033S1 it has this funny Lenovo only connector on it that no one uses so probably won't be able to sell it so I wanna know if I can cut the connector and attach a USB c port so it's usable it's useless to me otherwise so instead of throwing it away I wanna know if I can mess around with it first any ideas, links to any helpful sites or tutorials for DIY modding stuff like this thanks.

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Nope, that will only work with a Thinkpad with that connector. Sell it. Someone will buy it if you sell for less than eBay.

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Short answer: no

 

Longer answer: probably not. Type C is a very complicated connector with an even more complicated protocol making it work. I'm not familiar with that particular dock, but I can almost guarantee Lenovo didn't implement a type-c standard into a non standard connector. If they did, they would have just used the type-c connector. This leads me to believe they developed their own communication protocol for the various interfaces broken out on that dock. Best case scenario you might be able to get power and maybe USB 2.0 through a type C cable you hack off and solder in place of that yellow guy, but first you'd need a pinout and good luck finding that. This is also assuming they ran normal D+ and D- lines in that connector instead of encoding the signals in some proprietary protocol. Sorry to poo on your idea, but I don't think it's possible. If it is possible, it's not worth your time given how inexpensive thunderbolt 3 docks have gotten.

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I was curious on this myself, here is a link to the pinouts

https://pinoutguide.com/SerialPorts/Lenovo_ThinkPad_OneLink_d_pinout.shtml

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