This might be a silly question, but what should someone do for a broken headphone jack. Can that section just be replaced.
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This might be a silly question, but what should someone do for a broken headphone jack. Can that section just be replaced.
I've wondered about this myself, since my old Model 1's headphone jack hasn't worked well for a very long time. Hopefully, someone will be able to answer.
This thread has a few suggestions - http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthr...Headphone-Jack
If physically broken one would be looking at a 3.5mm Stereo Jack Socket for a PCB like this.
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/iEMAAO...pHc/s-l300.jpg
I don't know if this is the same one in the Mega Drive/Genesis but it looks close.
The Genesis jack was more of a linear package, from what I recall. Typically, you just have to bend the leaf contacts inward a bit so they get some tension. Maybe clean with a cotton swab dabbed in Hoppe's No. 9, or alcohol if you don't own any guns. Re-flow the solder on the connections. The volume slider is a hot mess to deal with when it goes sideways, but contact cleaner spray may help it. I was never a fan of linear rheostats.
Well I actually wasn't clear. My headphone jack itself, is physically broken. It happened when I was moving and I was setting up my entertainment center, and everything started to fall at one point, and I managed to catch everything, but I had a line-out plugged into the jack, and so it was the one part that got smashed and broken.
So really I was hoping there was some simple easy replacement of the headphone jack. It's a nice HDG Genesis.
Also I have a VA7 Genesis that I don't use (because of the slightly-inferior sound), so assuming the headphone jacks are the same, I can probably cannabalize the headphone jack from the VA7.
The headphone jacks parts should be the same, I'm assuming, right?
"The headphone jacks parts should be the same, I'm assuming, right" Yes. But if you ever want to fix the broken jack it just takes very little soldering to replace with a new 3.5mm stereo PCB mount audio jack like in the picture I have above. I am 90% sure this is the jack used in the Genesis but have not bought one for sometime and not from this seller.
Here is VA3 audio jack.
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/attachm...id=11507&stc=1