Mag Safe 1 to Magsafe 2 adapters

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• stephan

  July 2018

  Hi Gerald,

  that is surely a good thing to make them last longer and avoid electronic waste. My oldest charger is from 2008 and still working.

  If you are interested, we have a three interesting articles about the MagSafe chargers.

  The first one is about how we think you should roll up the cable: https://macandegg.com/2017/03/wind-macbook-power-cord-correctly/
  

  The second gives some tipps to reinforce the cable on certain points:
  https://macandegg.com/2017/03/apple-power-supply-prevent-fried-cables-tape/
  

  And a third is about which MagSafe power supply to buy, that features a picture of the MacSafe 1 to 2 adapter, for everybody that does not know how it looks: https://macandegg.com/2017/02/which-apple-power-supply-buy-one-makes-sense/

  Thanks for your input!
• ptgerald

  July 2018 edited July 2018

  Hi Stephan,

  I've already checked them out. Keep up the good work.

  I will suggest one more way to reinforce you mac charger cable. I bought heat shrink tubing. Cut two small length (1/2 inch), slid the over the magsafe input of the charger. slide one all the way to the charger brick and keep the second on the mag safe end. Then use a heat gun, though a good hairdryer might do the trick, to shrink the tubing down to the size of the charger cable to reinforce the ends of the cables. you could also use a lighter as a heat source but you'd have to be VERY careful not to burn yourself or the charger cord! I do this to my iphone cords and it has really extended the life of m cords and it makes my cords and chargers easily identifiable so no one accidentally grabs them
• stephan

  July 2018

  That is a good one, too! Thanks!