Then like me, you've undoubtedly come to realize the incredible injustice that has occurred. As your (and my) eyes are getting older, shouldn't the lead pitch of the components be getting BIGGER instead of SMALLER?
Prototyping and repair by hand is becoming harder and harder.
No, but I'd love to find a source for it. It appears to be a 5 lead switched unit, but unlike most such jacks, isn't using "normally closed" switches in both positions -- or I've totally misread what I was tracing out on a board the other day. If you're savvy, take a meter to it with 1/8" plug in the jack and with the plug removed, and tell me what you find on yours! I was quite surprised at the results. One side is clearly N.O. and being closed by the insertion of the plug -- it's not just switching the audio, either -- it's what sets up a logic low that indicates back to the TomTom that a plug has been inserted so as to automatically re-route the audio from external to internal when nothing is connected.
