I had to charge the wach in the field... all I had was a plain USB_x_to_abc cable... In a nutshell: I sacrificed - cut - the USB cable and held with tape the GND and power wires against the charging pads. What about polarity? No worries, if right, the watch reacts / vibrates briefly and the display turns on; if wrong, nothing happens! ;-)
How best to do this? for example:
take/make a wide stripe of transparent tape, about 4..5 inches long
tape the stripe with its back onto a flat surface
make two dots - tape-length-wise - next to each other in the middle of the tape - length-wise - and a bit in from the edge - width-wise - onto the wide stripe's sticky side. The distance of the two dots have to have the same distance from each other as the charging pad centers have: 2.5mm / 1/10 inch
cut the USB cable
get rid of the outer insulation and shielding for a few inches / 5..10cm
remove the insulation - a few millimeters / 1/8 of an inch only - and fold the bare power and ground wires (usually red and white)
plug the USB cable into the power source and touch withe the power and ground wire the pads to find out the correct placing - remember, it will be reversed position on the tape with the dots
UNPLUG the cable from the power source
put the wires with their ends on the dots, perpendicular to the stripes length
tape a smaller cut stripe of tape over the wires a bit away from the ends to secure the wires on the wide stripe
'unleash' the wide stripe and put it over the back of the watch with the wire ends positioned over the charging pads
if the contacts do not reliably touch, tape a small piece of (rubber) foam over the wire ends
just make sure nothing else but the pads are touched by the wires - separately, of course
plug the USB cable into the power source
I may come up with a simple with a file for a simple charger... you still need the cable....
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I had to charge the wach in the field... all I had was a plain USB_x_to_abc cable... In a nutshell: I sacrificed - cut - the USB cable and held with tape the GND and power wires against the charging pads. What about polarity? No worries, if right, the watch reacts / vibrates briefly and the display turns on; if wrong, nothing happens! ;-)
How best to do this? for example:
I may come up with a simple with a file for a simple charger... you still need the cable....