[Nexus 5 Accessories] Craiq:
Hi all,

I looked up a long time to find a magnetic Qi car charger, but couldn't find one.

So i decided to built one on my own.

It's just an little adapter to connect a Qi Charger with an universal car mount and stick some magnets on it.

I'm not responsible for any damage to your phone or Qi Charger, or not working mounts!

What you need:

- Qi Charger BC252W

- Adapter

- universal car mount

- thin cardboard (500µm - normal for candy packing) or plasti dip

- Magnets

- superglue

All together about 70€

more about the Magnets:

the easiest setup with good strength should be 8 magnets of 6x4x2 mm.

That's what I'm using atm without a bumper.

Because I don't have a bumper I can hardly tell which magnets will be the best for this. When I tried with a chipcard 8x4x3 mm looked pretty good, but didn't try the effects on the charging current.

The Adapter is 3D printed online at sculpteo and I published it there sculpteo and at shapeways.

That's how it looks like:

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For mounting to the glas I used Car Mount 1. But you should be able to use any mount with this universal connection interface like Car Mount 2, Car Mount 3, Car Mount 4 or Car Mount 5

The new special thing is, that the Nexus 5 is build to fit with a magnetic interface on a Qi charger.

Because of this there shouldn't be any problems with the magnetic field. While testing everything works fine.

Source: ifixit

How to build:

- get a flat screwdriver and remove the upper rubber of the Qi charger with the glue

if you are using 2mm tall magnets stick the cardboard under the rubber. When using 1mm tall magnets the cardboard should placed under the magnets.

- imagine a square and stick the magnets with your glue at the corner, so they look 1mm over the inner ring

put some attention that an edge look to the micro usb port

- cut the rubber in pieces so it fits between the magnets

- stick the pieces with glue between the magnets

- fit up the Qi charger on the adapter (if it's not strong enough use some glue and please tell me)

then it should look like:

using this now for several month and it works great!!! fine charging and no drop (german streets)

Here is a video of how i shake it and how easy it is to mount and dismount!

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If you like it, show it to me and spend a beer or two ;)

Edit:

Cheap Version:

didn't test on my own!

what you need:

- Qi Charger BC252W

- superglue, maybe a powerstrip

- universal car mount

- magnets

- thin cardboard (500µm - normal for candy packing)

All together about 40€

How to build:

- remove the upper rubber of the charger

- stick the magnets to the Qi charger. For this imagine a square and stick them to the corners,

so that the magnets look about 1mm over the inner ring

- cut the rubber in pieces so they fit between the magnets

- stick the rubber on the cardboard, and cut them off and stick them between the magnets

- cut off the 4 hooks of the mount, so there is a plane surface

- then stick the Qi charger with the powerstrip or with superglue to this plan surface