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Melting MagSafe Cable
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Did you do that, like with an Iron? Or did it just happen? If it just happened... Call Apple NOW!
alexprice said:
If you're sure what happened, how about you tell us rather than leave it as a mystery. It doesn't look like it came from the wire but from an external source...
Internal overheating would be most unlikely to cause superficial damage to the flex.alexprice said:
alexprice said:
To me, it looks like something melted the cable from the outside, especially with the crater that appears to have formed on the casing.
Warbrain said:
i doubt it. you can see the smaller circles that didnt burn all the way through from the inside. although i am pretty confused as to how it could get that hot, it does look internal. also if you look closely, especially at the smaller burn hole on the right, it is raising away from the wire. i dont think it would do that if something pressed against it to burn it.
were you using a 3rd party extension cable? those are notorious for causing overheating and malfunctions
I unplug mine at night, every night. That is scary. But it is something to be concernced with about all cables, not just Apple.
mine melted, too
I don't have photos, but I noticed a burning plastic smell while using my macbook. (No other heat sources were nearby in my office.)
The main transformer body (model A1184) was extremely hot, and the cabling about an inch upstream of the magsafe connecter was melting/smoldering and HOT.
I unplugged, bought a new one, and all seems to be going okay now.
After cutting/stripping the old cable upstream of the short/over-current, the transformer body stays cool when plugged in (though of course there's no load on it). Oddly, instead of reading the nominal 16.5VDC, my multimeter reads (steadily) 6.86VDC across the two conductors.
Also unfortunately, the melt was so close to the magsafe connector that I couldn't harvest it for re-dedication. :/
Now I'm sorry I didn't take pictures before ripping it apart-- it looked very similar to the photo above.
-dwj
I don't have photos, but I noticed a burning plastic smell while using my macbook. (No other heat sources were nearby in my office.)
The main transformer body (model A1184) was extremely hot, and the cabling about an inch upstream of the magsafe connecter was melting/smoldering and HOT.
I unplugged, bought a new one, and all seems to be going okay now.
After cutting/stripping the old cable upstream of the short/over-current, the transformer body stays cool when plugged in (though of course there's no load on it). Oddly, instead of reading the nominal 16.5VDC, my multimeter reads (steadily) 6.86VDC across the two conductors.
Also unfortunately, the melt was so close to the magsafe connector that I couldn't harvest it for re-dedication. :/
Now I'm sorry I didn't take pictures before ripping it apart-- it looked very similar to the photo above.
-dwj
this happened to me....almost burnt my house down.
apple replaced my desk , laptop , firwire 800 cables , UPS .