How to fix headphones?

Content:

1. Causes for headphone breakdowns
2. What if one earphone does not work?
3. Breaking the wire: what to do?
4. How to fix the plug?
5. Recommendations

Modern man is extremely difficult to imagine without modern gadgets, because they make life easier. Headphones are an indispensable attribute, thanks to which you can listen to books and music in public places, while remaining alone with your favorite melody. However, headphones, like any other device, may break, resulting in two ways - buying new headphones or repairing old ones. In this article we will talk about how to return the life of broken headphones, saving money.

Causes for headphone breakdowns

In order to understand whether the headphones can be repaired and how to do it, it is important to determine the cause of the breakdown. At the moment, the main options are as follows:

• Channel blockage.
• Problems with the membrane.
• Broken wire near the headphone or plug.

What if one earphone does not work?

If only one of the headphones does not work, then the problem is hidden inside it. First you need to visually inspect it, making sure the integrity of the wire.The next step is to check the headset itself:

• Opening the earpiece.
• Checking the membrane, its integrity and proper location. If the membrane is collapsed, it is enough to align it with your fingers.
• Crash and rattling while listening to music indicates that the membrane is clogged and needs to be cleaned.
• Wash the protective mesh with a cotton swab moistened with alcohol.
• If the membrane is damaged and you need to replace it, then it is easier to buy new headphones, since repairing the membrane at home will fail.

Important! Another reason for the failure of one of the headphones - the gap lived. In this case, you need to disassemble the earpiece and check the attachments, conductors. You can fix the “ear” if you cut the wire, strip it and solder it as it was originally.

Breaking the wire: what to do?

If while listening to music or audio books you can hear rustling sounds, and the sound periodically disappears, then the problem is hidden in the wire, or rather its integrity. First of all, in order to eliminate the breakage of the veins on the fold, it is necessary to determine the location of the breakdown. This can be done if you turn on the music and walk your hands along the entire length of the cord, bending and rotating it. As soon as a rustling appeared - this is the place where the cliff lived.

Now we need to act as follows:

• Mark the intended location of the breakdown in any convenient way.
• Unplug the headphones from the gadget.
• Cut the wire from two sides with nippers, removing the problem area.
• To clean the edges and solder.
• Check the quality of work.
• Shake tape.

Important! Often, while listening to music, a person is in motion. In this regard, the main place of the headphone breakage is a plug and a wire section extending from it.

How to fix the plug?

As mentioned earlier, plug-in clips are the most common cause of headphone breakdowns. There are two types of plugs, but we will not go into their differences, as they are equally prone to breakage.

Before repairing the plug, it is necessary to study its mechanism design and the purpose of the wires that are there.

Device design:

• Shared channel.
• Right channel.
• Left channel.

Important! The corresponding wires are also in the headphone cord.

Tools for repair

The theory is passed, which means it's time to move on to work. Of course, carrying out repairs is impossible without inventory, which includes:

• Stationery knife.
• Soldering iron.
• Glue.
• Lighter.
• Vice.
• Glue.
• Shrinkable cambric.
• Plug (if you need to replace it completely).

We fix the plug

The repair procedure itself includes the following steps:

• Cut the wire from the plug just above the bend where the breakage allegedly occurred.
• Unplug the plastic plug or take a new connector.
• Strip the wire a couple of centimeters.
• Determine the purpose of each wire, connecting them to the speakers before the sound.
• Solder each of the wires to the corresponding channel. To do this, clean the wires and channels, fasten the plug in a vice and solder the wires.
• Creating an attractive appearance at the site of the spikes and creating its protection. In the wire there is a nylon thread that needs to be glued to the plug with glue. Hide bare wires can be using shrinking cambric, put it on the place of adhesions and heating with a lighter, and remove the remnants with a knife.

Recommendations

• If there is no soldering iron, then it is possible to repair a break inside the wire by connecting the cores by twisting in a spiral.
• The easiest way to determine the location of the break in the wire with a multimeter.
• The easiest method of repairing headphones is careful use and storage of the device. In this case, you can avoid kinks and breaks, so that the headphones will last long enough.
• As you know, the headphones get confused no matter how carefully you folded them. You can get rid of this problem with the help of available tools, for example, by winding the device on a spool from under the threads.