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I have found that when my MacBook doesn't charge, gently running a clean pencil eraser over the pins and the laptop connector will usually solve the problem for a few weeks/months. There are two reasons the pins do not make contact. The cause of the MagSafe charger to only work when in one orientation, is that 3 of the essential pins are not touching the laptop. If you read reviews of unofficial Apple Magsafe chargers sold on Amazon, you will find a surprising percentage of reviews mention that the pins get stuck. High end pogo pins are gold plated on all surfaces inside and outĬheap / knockoff pogo pins often are only gold plated on the outside, allowing for corrosion to enter the internal components. It is common for pogo pins to be rated for 10,000 cycles. They typically consist of gold plated, hollow brass tube with springs inside. The PinsĮffectively the pins are mechanically identical to electronic pogo pins. 1 and 5 or 2 and 4) the laptop failed to charge. Still worked in both orientations without right most pinsĪs soon as I covered two matching pins (i.e. Still worked in both orientations without these pins As long as the center pin, and one ground and one positive pin made contact, my laptop successfully charged. To prove this, I put non conductive tape over different combinations of positive and negative pins. Only the center pin and one of each other type of pin must be connected for the laptop to charge. There are two ground pins, and two 16.5V. Here's a pictorial version: orientation 1 orientation 2Įdit: checked the actual wiring, and it is indeed symmetrical as I describe. When you plug it the other way, each side has a broken contact and so the circuit cannot complete. So when you plug it one way, the leftmost outer contact works and does the job. By sheer bad luck, it might be that the corresponding contact on the laptop side also does not work anymore. What might have happened is that, say, the magsafe's rightmost contact does not work anymore. So for example it could be wired so that the two external contacts are connected to "-", and the two internal ones to "+". To allow you to plug it in either way, it must be designed symmetrically.
It really only needs to connect two things (the "+" and "-", possibly ground too). The magsafe connector, head-on, looks like this: What I write as "*" looks like an electrical contact.
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