It depends on where the break is. If the broken connection is at the connector inside the controller, then you could easily patch it and be back in business; if a wire is broken somewhere along the cord's length, then you'd have to find its location(s), cut that sucker open, splice, and tape it all back together again (a.k.a. - extreme ghetto mod);
Well, the wire wedged between the plastic pegs inside the controller probably aren't the problem because Turbo Pads fail much more often than the otherwise identicle Duo Pads.
In twenty years of gaming, I've only had a controller connection break in the middle of the cable once (and that was from a guinea pig), so I'm ruling that out.
TZD's claim, written during Steve's time, seems the most likely: "Most pads fail because the pins on the connector break."
I've had 3-4 Turbo Pads go bad now but there' never anything visibly broken when I look at the pins, so the problem must occur within the connector. The hard plastic DIN connector is a lot harder to open than the cable, but I'll try to bust it open and take a look.
and if the problem is at the DIN connector, then you could easily cut it off and wire up a replacement (though that'd make these short ass cables even shorter).
How would I wire a replacement that would be sturdy enough to withstand the force of yanking those pins in and out? What could I use to replace the whole connector?
Alternatively, you could buy one of the cheap extension cables, cut off the female end, and wire it up to the controller connector from your dying cable; you should be able to determine the correct wiring by disassembling and examining the ends of the two soon to be trashed cables.
I could convert Turbo Pads into Duo pads that way, put I'd like to find a source of Turbo-sized connectors.
Suck that, Redfrog!
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Topic: Is there a way to actually REPAIR Turbo Pad cables? (Read 696 times)
