I have a PlayStation Gold wireless headset, for chatting with people I play video games with. It usually recharges via a USB cable but I wanted a recharging stand for it, so that the USB connector does not suffer from wear-and-tear and I don’t have to worry about managing yet-another-USB-cable.
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The stand itself is made of 9mm thick clear acrylic plastic, laser cut and laser etched by Ponoko. I used copper foil tape to make a connection from a DC barrel jack to the headset. The headset has two patches of conductive velcro that connects with the copper foil tape. Inside the headset, I installed a simple lithium battery recharging circuit. There is a LED that will glow red during recharge, and glow green when the battery is full.
The circuit is made with spare parts soldered to a piece of protoboard. Here is a circuit diagram:
The circuit itself is protected from all sorts things. Self resetting PTC fuses prevent damage to the power supply and the circuit. A schottky diode to prevent damage from reverse polarity. A zener diode provides a crude over voltage protection. A TVS diode (not shown in circuit diagram, sorry) is used to protect against static electricity. One way that I could’ve improved the circuit is to use a full bridge rectifier.
In simple words, I can’t break it by placing it on the stand backwards, or by using the wrong wall-wart, or by short circuiting anything, or by having too much static electricity from my hair.
If you are interested, here is the vector file for the laser cutting and etching (click here)
The laser cutting and engraving is quite expensive, but if you wanted to do this cheaply, you can always use cheap materials like wood.
Are these sold anywhere? Please email me 2001dcw@gmail.com
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BLUETOOTH HEADSET MOT89382N (Electronics) The headset is very cfobortamle to wear, the sound quality is pretty good considering all the new style headsets out there now. I have trouble wearing the type that goes into your ear because it hurts my ear after a while. I can wear this one all day and there is no pain at all.
This is awesome!
I would like to know how to buy as well please.
If a USB cord was used, with the “charging end” cutoff, powering the copper tape, up to conductive Velcro, wired to the internal battery, than the entire diy charging circuit could be omitted. Correct? Granted, a person would have to be very careful not to put them on the stand incorrectly. But schottky and TVS diodes should be small enough and easy enough, to put inside the headset, to prevent reverse polarity and provide static protection.
I forgot if this particular headset checks for “data line resistors”, otherwise, you are correct. Most likely it does not check.
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I want to purchase the Recharging Stand for PlayStation Gold Wireless Headset please thanks
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