{"id":1158,"date":"2025-01-09T18:34:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T23:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T22:02:27","slug":"adding-a-usb-c-power-jack-to-a-dymo-label-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/?p=1158","title":{"rendered":"Adding a USB-C power jack to a Dymo Label maker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I&#8217;m tired of this thing eating batteries when it sits for months between uses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Parts Needed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>USB-C &#8220;PD Trigger&#8221;: <a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/4zRihe0\">https:\/\/a.co\/d\/4zRihe0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 sections of wire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tools Needed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hot glue gun<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dremel rotary tool or hand file<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Screwdriver<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Soldering iron<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I watched this Youtube video to change the power output of the PD trigger to 9V: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jt6tO4P9r_I?si=EfgTdZ5-V5WElDiG\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/jt6tO4P9r_I<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I unscrewed the top shell from the inner housing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I cut a divot in the inner housing to make room for the USB-C PD trigger board.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I cut a divot in the top shell to make room for the USB-C PD trigger board.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I hot-glued the USB-C PD trigger board in place and soldered the wires between the USB-C PD trigger board and the DC barrel connector.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gallery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/j3sy7gDrvSSZqPPn6\">https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/j3sy7gDrvSSZqPPn6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why? Because I&#8217;m tired of this thing eating batteries when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}