Hi, today I want to share with you my idea about retrofitting in your car
wireless charging for your phone. Even if your car is not available with that
option and even if your phone is not supporting the wireless charging feature.
So first thing of all we need to buy some hardware. This is the wireless
charger that you are supposed to install somewhere in your car. you have a micro
USB port over here to power it up. And this is my iPhone 6 which also doesn't
come with the wireless charging but I found a receiver that's installed
under the case. It's pretty much seamlessly installed over there. And it's
connected to the Lightning port over here. So as I said this is an iPhone 6
and as you can see... Can you see it? Yeah! As you can see there's a wireless charging
receiver over here. And the idea is that the charger has to be built in somewhere
in the car and as soon as I place my phone over there it will charge up so
let's check if this works.
OK, I have the microUSB cable connected to a phone
charger in my 12-volt outlet, the ignition is on, the wireless charger is
connected and the green LED is indicating that the device is ready to
charge my phone. And as soon as I place my phone over it...
it charges.
Now I should just figure out where to place it so maybe over here.
Let's check if my phone can go over there.
So I should remove this,
install the charger underneath and every time I
place my phone over there it should charge up. So let's check if
the charger works through that plastic cover.
OK, it works.
I got both
the charger and the phone receiver from Aliexpress and you will find links in
the description below. But I strongly suggest you search it up on Aliexpress
on your own just to find the correct device because I choosed the
most basic one (the cheapest one that I could find). There are some bigger ones
and you don't have to search with your phone the correct place
for the most efficient charging. There are bigger emitters. So check out what
will fit your car of the best and choose that one. Also there are different
connectors. iPhone uses the Lightning connector. There are with microUSB,
I believe the USB-C also. I checked this charger with an iPhone 8
and iPhone X, so there's no issues over there.
And right now what I should do is
make a hole over here, somewhere over here, guide those cables through it,
and hide this device underneath so there's no bump, additional bump
under the rubber cover.
And connect this to the 5-volt line. I can use the phone
charger or I can use a step-down converter which will make 12 volt to 5
volt step-down conversion. And after that I can use it as an wireless
phone charger. And this costs like $5, $10 if you need to buy the case for
your phone. $10 installation to make your car
and your phone wireless charging ready.
And I believe if you want to buy this
feature when you are buying a new car and you want you to equipped your car
with this option you have to pay like $250. In Volkswagen it was like
$300 just for this option. And here you can have it for $10 and install
it within an hour or maybe two.
OK, thank you for watching, give me a thumbs
up if this video helped you. Leave comment below if you think that this is
a great idea or is it a bad idea - that I shouldn't do it in my car. And thank you
for watching, see you soon!