{"id":2133,"date":"2026-03-12T19:58:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:32:09","slug":"power-bank-2695-port-soldering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=2133","title":{"rendered":"Power Bank #2695 Port Soldering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ella&#8217;s above-referenced portable power bank, example shown below and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.4imprint.com\/product\/141357-5-24HR\/Cobble-Carabiner-Power-Bank-5000-mAh-24-hr\">likely specifications here<\/a>, stopped taking a charging and giving a charge to other devices. It was a freebie from her Humane Society volunteer efforts. Since it was broken and never seemed to have a manufacturer warranty, I found it free game to open up and inspect. I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/Guide\/Power+Bank+-+Resolder+USB+Ports\/209782\">started a guide for others<\/a> considering opening one of these, which is rather easy. Anyway, please help improve the guide. As usual I didn&#8217;t take enough pictures and didn&#8217;t write enough describing what I did to repair it.<\/p>\n<p>The battery cells inside the power bank appear to be fine, but the USB input and output ports had cracked solder joints at the PCB. No matter how I resoldered the ports, they appear destined to incur more stress than the PCB is designed for. I sealed it back up, but I suspect I&#8217;ll be back inside this thing before long. The output port seems most durable, but the input port flexes way too much.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/512026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/512026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/512026.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/512026-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/512026-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ella&#8217;s above-referenced portable power bank, example shown below and likely specifications here, stopped taking a charging and giving a charge to other devices. It was a freebie from her Humane Society volunteer efforts. Since it was broken and never seemed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=2133\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}