Hi everyone. I have a Tomtom GO720 GPS. My father accidentally broke the original charger that came with the tomtom to plug into the car. So in the house he found a wall plug that had the same end connector and cut it off. he took the cable that he cut off from the wall charger and connected it to the car charger (smoke plug)
I told him not to do that, as there may damage the gps from too much voltage. So, he connected some wires like red, white black and there was smoke coming from the charger port on the gps. I told him HALT/ STOP its smoking.
He had to go back to his work and I tried to turning the gps on and nothing would work. I opened up a lot of other electronic items like the wii, ps3, xbox 360, lcd monitor etc and I did some repair to them. So I decided to find the issue instead before throwing it away. I opened the Tomtom up and I found a small chip that was burned/crisped. I rip the chip out since it was destroyed and WALA it turned on and everything worked perfectly EXCEPT it would not charge when connecting to the pc via usb or in the car.
I went to get the original tomtom usb auto charger and plugged it in the car and it doesn't stay on. The unit was working with the battery, until i used it a lot and battery drained.
So my question was how can i use the tomtom gps just with the auto charger that goes in smoke? If i pull the battery out you think that may work? I just want to use the charger only.
Thank you.
I told him not to do that, as there may damage the gps from too much voltage. So, he connected some wires like red, white black and there was smoke coming from the charger port on the gps. I told him HALT/ STOP its smoking.
He had to go back to his work and I tried to turning the gps on and nothing would work. I opened up a lot of other electronic items like the wii, ps3, xbox 360, lcd monitor etc and I did some repair to them. So I decided to find the issue instead before throwing it away. I opened the Tomtom up and I found a small chip that was burned/crisped. I rip the chip out since it was destroyed and WALA it turned on and everything worked perfectly EXCEPT it would not charge when connecting to the pc via usb or in the car.
I went to get the original tomtom usb auto charger and plugged it in the car and it doesn't stay on. The unit was working with the battery, until i used it a lot and battery drained.
So my question was how can i use the tomtom gps just with the auto charger that goes in smoke? If i pull the battery out you think that may work? I just want to use the charger only.
Thank you.
