Broken External USB speakers Cable

The usb head was squished (ran over it with my chair, really pissed at myself for it) and so I cut off the head as I tried to fix it but nothing helped. Now, I have tons of USB male heads on random cables I don't need, but how do I go about doing this?

These are the speakers:

V20 Notebook Speakers

 

Just cut the wire and solder on a new head, but just have to make sure you get the pinout right.

Easiest thing to do is cut the cable back far enough so that you can strip the wire on both sides and then test with a multimeter the wire color to the usb pins.

USB usually is standard for color code however I never risk anything.

Id easily fix this for you if you didnt live across the country.

 

How do I go about soldering on a new head? The colors i see on the cut USB end is red green white black. I tried cutting off a male connector, and opening the plastic around the head to find the connectors, but it was too difficult opening it up.

Hopefully this will be the project that I will learn how to solder because there's no way I'd throw these speakers out

 

Well, you don't have to learn how to solder necessarily, looks like you more need to strip the wires first.
Yes, the plastic is hard to get at use a knife.

By plastic I mean plastic down the wire which is what I hope you mean. You need to connect the wires. Ripping apart a connector that was not meant to be serviced is a pretty futile activity.

 

4 of the colored wires are exposed on both the speaker cable and the male connector cable... how do I connect them together?

 

This is what I've got:

 

match up the colors, use some coupling or solder with heatshrink tubing and call it a day.

or you can go buy a usb header that is designed to be user assembled.

this cable is easy to open and work with.

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id personally just splice at the cable level though if i had a spare donor usb cable on hand.

 

Im hoping to just work with whatever I have and not order anything else.

Now, when you say solder, can I just take a soldering gun, put the metal writing it comes with and attach each color's wires together? Is there a specific technique I should use?

 

technique I would use is to tin each wire first and then solder them together, then cover the connection with heatshrink. Do that for all the small wires, and then cover all of them with one larger piece of heatshrink.

If you do not like to solder your fine using a crimp coupling.



insert wire on one side crimp it down, insert wire on other side crimp it down. Then just use some electric tape to wrap everything up when done.

 

My S150 suffered a similar fate. I used a USB extension cord, stripped the female end, open the speaker casing and soldered it onto the PCB.