WesternDigital MyPassport Pro - Upgrade

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<p>If you don't use your Western Digital MyPassport Pro all the time, but more like once or twice a year as a backup device for your camera, the battery might be damaged through constant drain of stand-by electronics.<br/> My last device died of this since there where no spareparts availabel.</p> <p>This time I upgraded my device with a main switch, to completely disconnect the battery.</p> <p>Details on who to do it are below.</p> <h3> Print Settings</h3> <p><strong>Printer Brand:</strong></p> <p>Prusa</p> <p><p class="detail-setting printer"><strong>Printer: </strong> <div><p>i3 MK2.5</p></div><strong>Rafts:</strong></p> <p>No</p> <p><p class="detail-setting supports"><strong>Supports: </strong> <div><p>No</p></div><strong>Resolution:</strong></p> <p>0,1</p> <p><p class="detail-setting infill"><strong>Infill: </strong> <div><p>50</p></div><br/> <strong>Filament:</strong><br/> [</p> <h3> doesn't matter ABS/PET ](http://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias&amp;field-keywords=doesn%27t+matter+ABS%2FPET&amp;tag=thingiverse09-20) any you like How I Designed This</h3> <p><strong>WARNING!</strong></p> <p><div><p>Before you start:<br/> YOU WILL LOSE YOUR WARRANTY WITH THIS MOD!</p> <p>I'm NOT responsible if you mess up and brick your device!</p> <p>Short circuiting a lithium battery may cause it to explode!</p> <p><strong>Step 1</strong></p> <p><div><p>Lets start:<br/> The only place for a switch is somewhere beside the SD-slot.</p> <p>Is bought a switch with 4 seperate contacts (article number 708232, at conrad.at)</p> <p>To open the case you best use smartphone/tablet repair tools.<br/> Start directly above the SD-slot since the nose there is the easiest and countinue clockwise.</p> <p><strong>Step 2</strong></p> <p>Don't try to get out the electronic, because it's fixed with the HDD. You need to first open the 3 clips holding the HDD. One of them is very tricky.<br/> Then you can safely take out all the components.</p> <p><strong>Step 3</strong></p> <p>File the noches of the switch housing so you can solder the switch directly on to the SD-slot.<br/> Clip the long switch arm that the cap has a good fit. Place the switch onto the SD-slot that the plane is about 1mm higher than the circuit board. The plane can than cover the hole in the casing so you don't get too much dust inside.<br/> Solder the switch in place (be careful not to get solder into the SD-slot!)</p> <p><strong>Step 4</strong></p> <p>Drill-Guide:<br/> Western digital uses different casings for different HDD sizes. I happen to have a 2TB and a 3TB version of them, so I made different drill-guides.<br/> Just place them on the SD-slot and gently drill with a 4mm drill. After the first hole, just turn the drill-guide and drill the second hole (thats because the holes are slightly overlapping).<br/> Afterwards remove the excess to get a single long hole.</p> <p>The switch-cap and drill guide are designed with a distance of 7mm between the center line from SD-slot to the switch-pin. So the switch-cap is asymmetrical! Place it that the pin is furthest from SD.</p> <p><strong>Step 5</strong></p> <p>Attention now!<br/> Don't cut all wires at once or you will short circuit the battery. You don't want to short circuit a lithium battery, belive me!<br/> Cut as close to the battery as you can, but still be able to solder.<br/> Always only cut one wire and solder a new longer one. then isolate the end!<br/> Then the next wire. Don't forget to use shrink sleeves!</p> <p><strong>Step 6</strong></p> <p>Get the switch in off position, put the connector in and solder the lower two wires.<br/> Then the corresponding wires from the battery.<br/> Afterwards the upper row.<br/> Be careful that nothing touches the SD-slot cover or you will short circuit.<br/> I even cut the not used pins of the switch.<br/> The wires in my pictures are a bit too long, but I didn't want to cut them a second time.</p> <p>Check if the switch is working by testing the battery level.</p> <p><strong>Step 7</strong></p> <p>If everything works, you can now put together everything.<br/> Also usw the clips of the HDD.<br/> Putting it together can be a bit fiddly. Take your time.</p> <p><strong>Last but not least</strong></p> <p>You only need to switch on the battery in stand-alone mode of it's main purpose.<br/> If you want to use it on your computer, the switch can stay off.<br/> Charging, of course, only works when switch is on. ;-)</p> <p>How did I end up with two of these devices?<br/> At first I bought the 2TB version and wanted to replace the HDD with a 5TB model.<br/> I tried several things, but nothing worked.<br/> With vaccation ahead, I ordered a second device with 3TB.</p> <p>The electronics of both devices are completely identical. So it should only be software.<br/> There is a guide on how to replace the SSD with a different one, but the procedure didn't work with mine.</p> </div></p></div></p></p></p></p> Category: Computer