I bought a used HP keyboard at a yard sale to replace the one I'm using now. it has a small pig tail where the input cord was chopped off and I would like to splice an input cord from an old keyboard in my junk box to this HP. Can it be done and will a good splice fix it so it will work? Thank you for your time. fjell
Sure if you can figure out the pinout of the cable, it may be labeled on the board inside the keyboard. There may be a good reason the cord was chopped off though.
Also, make sure it's a line cord - 115 VAC - not from a missing adapter (though if it is hard-wired, this is unlikely).
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Did I miss something? I thought this was a computer keyboard not a musical keyboard.
No, probably not. :) Just not paying attention. That happens sometimes.....
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Just imagine, some guy taking a PC keyboard and hooking it up to 115v (or in sa, 240v). That would be interesting. More interesting if it is still plugged into his PC at the time. ;-)
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Man, I gotta try that. with 240v in South Africa, it ought to be even more fantastic. (Maybe I will try on a 3 Phase Supply [400v]) P.
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WHICH HP keyboard? Someone might have the cable from a dead one.
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