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Hi Ken and thanks for the very informative article. I am just learning to do component level repairs of Macbooks. It is not possible to buy 85W magsafe cables on Ebay, they are all 60W even if advertised as 85W. this is annoying because if you have a genuine 85W charger and the Magsafe cable is damaged you cannot replace it with one of these cables. It will not charge the Macbooks that require the 85W charger, typically the 15"Macbook Pro. Would it be possible to reprogram the one wire chip so that it identifies as an 85W Magsafe cable at all ? This would be very useful. Thanks if you find time to reply to my question and thanks again for your experimentation on this. Pedro147 (Peter Newman)
Apr 2, 2020, 6:34:19 AM
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