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I have a solar panel that emits 5 volts, and I would like to try to charge my iPhone with it. Should I connect the I/O wires directly behind the lightning plug, or is the big transformer block important?
I guess the block is used to change the voltage to 5 volts so that the iPhone can handle it, but I'd like to be sure.
When the device is plugged into iTunes, look under the info tab, you will see an option to sync calendars, you can turn this off by unchecking the sync calendars box.
If it works through the regular 30-pin to USB cable, it should work with the Lightning to USB cable as well.
This type of connection is through an all digital interface and I am not aware of any changes to it, when the lightning connector was introduced.
It's a different story, when you have a Y-Cable for your car. This would have a dock-connector on one side and a USB and Headphone-jack on the other.
In this case you will need a Lightning to 30-pin adapter. This would be an analog connection and the adapter would do the conversion from a digital into an analog signal.
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Note: this will require soldering, and I'm not 100% sure this will work.
First, take a lightning cable, and cut roughly 2 inches off of the cable on the usb male end. Strip the main wire down a bit, and you should probably be left with 4 mini wires. Take the red and black wires, and connect them to the I/O of the solar panel, via soldering.
Again, I'm not completely sure how a lightning cable works, but I believe this should work.
Here is an example how to get this done: How to make a Solar USB charger!