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Murphy's Law, how you mock me. (UPDATE)
14 years ago
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My co-worker is awesome. He's been busy with electronics for years (model airplanes and all that) and managed to find the issue: short circuit because of water ingress inside the cable, likely caused by a previous accident I had with this charger a year ago. Some of the plastic degraded because of it and caused the two wires to connect.
Took it home tonight to put the cables together and fix them up with heatshrink, so by tomorrow I should have a fully functional charger again.
Seeing how the previous journal handled the fact I had an SSD breaking down after 2 months of usage, I thought I could still be connected for a while because of my old iBook G4 laptop. But no, last night the power cable decided to fry (quite literally, there were sparks and smoke coming out of the place where the short circuit occurred.)
So now I have a perfectly good iBook G4 I won't be able to use anymore because I can't find a replacement for that power cable. Well, there are some in the US, but those are useless here in Belgium due to differences in output.
And no, I don't feel like buying a different laptop or anything alike altogether since I'm mostly using it as a backup communication tool / reading tool these days.
Nerd tantrum powers, GOOOOO!
My co-worker is awesome. He's been busy with electronics for years (model airplanes and all that) and managed to find the issue: short circuit because of water ingress inside the cable, likely caused by a previous accident I had with this charger a year ago. Some of the plastic degraded because of it and caused the two wires to connect.
Took it home tonight to put the cables together and fix them up with heatshrink, so by tomorrow I should have a fully functional charger again.
Seeing how the previous journal handled the fact I had an SSD breaking down after 2 months of usage, I thought I could still be connected for a while because of my old iBook G4 laptop. But no, last night the power cable decided to fry (quite literally, there were sparks and smoke coming out of the place where the short circuit occurred.)
So now I have a perfectly good iBook G4 I won't be able to use anymore because I can't find a replacement for that power cable. Well, there are some in the US, but those are useless here in Belgium due to differences in output.
And no, I don't feel like buying a different laptop or anything alike altogether since I'm mostly using it as a backup communication tool / reading tool these days.
Nerd tantrum powers, GOOOOO!
My best bet'll be going to the Apple store nearby this evening and see what they have to say about the possibilities. If the short circuit would've occurred somewhere halfway down the cable we could've fixed it ourselves at work :(
Though we also found a replacement on DealExtreme. Comes with an American socket though, but if it's interchangeable like the one I currently have (input/output is identical to my current one), there shouldn't be a problem using that one... I think.
Also, the tagline sais "compatible with iBook G3", but again, looked identical to my current one.