Hardware: EeePC PSU Conversion

One annoying aspect of my EeePC review sample, is the PSU is American, so it means carrying around a US adapter with me everywhere - kind of negates the point of having such a small laptop and PSU. Most PSU's now support 110-250V, so the need to adapt the voltage is unnecessary - only the pinout is different. Knowing this, I decided to convert mine.

I happened to have an old 19V laptop brick lying around that had stopped working, so I took out the figure of eight socket. With some action from the side snips and a file, I got rid of the large bulk of plastic, leaving a nice rounded socket.

On the original power supply, once again with some action from the side snips, I removed the US pins, and some of the plastic holding it in place. I then had to whittle down the area that my figure of eight connector was going to fit into.

I ran some wires through, soldered them to where the pins previously connected and put the PSU back together. I filled the gaping hole with some hot glue, and trimmed up with edges with a knife. The finishing result is quite pleasing

Looking back on it now - I could probably have soldered the figure of eight connection straight onto the US pins, but the plan wasn't solid from the start!

LOL.