All iPads: Lightning cable melted

[s0nicpr0s]

My sister and I have been sharing a 4th generation iPad the past few weeks, she'll have it one week, I will the next. We purchased a second lightning cable so that we wouldn't have to worry about charging it at each others houses. When she brought it over last night, she grabbed the 12w wall charger, and the cable that came with the iPad. She commented that the cable was getting very hot, and after she left I plugged the iPad back in.

Using the apple charger, as well as a 2.1 amp wall adapter I use for my phone, the iPad wouldn't charge. Plugging it into my iMac would cause the "Too much power" warning to pop up instantly, and the PS3 couldn't charge it either.

I took the iPad to a friend's house, and using their lightning cable allowed me to charge the iPad a little bit. I stopped at the closest apple store and showed my cable to two employees. They gave me a new cable.

I'm curious if anyone else has run into an issue where the cable has gotten so hot, that the connector casing looked warped afterwards. I should've snapped a picture of it before taking it in, but I wasn't thinking ahead.

[Medic311]

mine hasn't warped or melted, but the tip that goes into the charger gets VERY hot after just 30 mins of charging. i can't even imagine what it would be like if charging from 0% to 100% for 5 hours or something.

it's a moot point though, i'm returning it and ordering and iPad 3 refurb.

[racoonboy]

There are people around here whose Ipad mini's lightning cable also melted and it also took the 5W adaptor along with.

[ucfgrad93]

Do you have a picture of the cable? I'd love to see it.

[s0nicpr0s]

I wish I did. Like I said, didn't think to take a picture until after I got home with the new one. They took the old one when I traded in my broken one. Where the cord connects to the connector was warped. The middle of the plastic had a dimple or squashed in area, almost like the heat had shrunk it a little. And where the metal sticks out towards the top, the plastic was kinda pushed outwards towards the iOS device

[Medic311]

Originally Posted by racoonboy

There are people around here whose Ipad mini's lightning cable also melted and it also took the 5W adaptor along with.

yeah that's why the lightning cable was so hot, b/c the 5W charger itself was insanely hot to the touch. i don't know what the hell is wrong with it. i stopped using it and i just use a generic USB wall charger that i got from amazon and it runs only slightly warm.

when i return the iPad Mini this week i will tell them about the problem. i'm not returning it for the charger/cable temperature, but rather b/c i just don't like the form factor. i'm going back to an iPad 3 refurb instead

[racoonboy]

Originally Posted by Medic311

yeah that's why the lightning cable was so hot, b/c the 5W charger itself was insanely hot to the touch. i don't know what the hell is wrong with it. i stopped using it and i just use a generic USB wall charger that i got from amazon and it runs only slightly warm.

when i return the iPad Mini this week i will tell them about the problem

I have no idea why apple provided only 5W charger with the mini? The battery capacity is almost as much as Ipad 2, no?

[DonnieZ]

Even on the iPad 2 the 5w charger got very hot. The additional draws from the new iPads I'm sure is very taxing on it.

[Medic311]

Originally Posted by racoonboy

I have no idea why apple provided only 5W charger with the mini? The battery capacity is almost as much as Ipad 2, no?

b/c of the 5W charger costs pennies compared to the 10W/12W charger

[racoonboy]

Originally Posted by DonnieZ

Even on the iPad 2 the 5w charger got very hot. The additional draws from the new iPads I'm sure is very taxing on it.

It might be useable but i would never charge an Ipad using Iphone charger. Ipad demands more energy than it can give. Its okay the other way around though.

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Originally Posted by Medic311

b/c of the 5W charger costs pennies compared to the 10W/12W charger

And yet $329 is the mini starting price