Travel Technology - Rewiring Qantas N/C headphons possible?

Lets say, HYPOTHETICALLY, someone took a pair of the noise-cancelling headphones with them off of the plane. They know that they run off of the power from the airline chair but are wondering if the headphones can be rewired to work with or without noise-cancelling capability (just regular headphones). Is this possible? If so, any tips on how, in this purely hypothetical situation, it could be done?

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Of course. For the person who steals noise canceling headphones off the plane, I suggest that they should first take a shower, and then wear the headphones over their wet hair before plugging them into 110V AC. You may find that 220V AC works even better.

Sadly you will find that much of the noise cancelling circuitry is IN the plug.

So no game.

I'm sure you will have plenty of time to figure it out while your in jail for theft.

very funny...But could they be rewired as regular headphones?

The QF headphones are rather poor quality -- one of the weak points of the QF service. You can buy better headphones for a few dollars (under USD 5), so it really isn't worth the cost of rewiring. I forget whether QF uses the 3-prong connnection (I think they do), in which case the rewiring also involves adding the (now missing) interface module), so it will run you a few hundred dollars to make from scratch.

Of course. For the person who steals noise canceling headphones off the plane, I suggest that they should first take a shower, and then wear the headphones over their wet hair before plugging them into 110V AC. You may find that 220V AC works even better.

I quite like the seat personally. I might ask QF if I can manage to get the seat off the plane if it can be hypothetically rewired to 110\240v. :D