Just scared myself silly

95M3Fanatic · 95M3Fanatic #1 (**permalink**)

04-06-2011, 03:21 AM

i just plugged in my macbook charger backwards into the surge protector. big spark and all the power went out in my room. i had to go downstairs and flip the breaker switch back on.

but then i plugged it in the other way and the same thing happened so it has to be the charger. going to take it into the apple store tomorrow and let them test it out. I'm going to LOL in real life when all the lights in the store/mall go out!!!!!

baggss · baggss #2 (**permalink**)

04-06-2011, 03:25 AM

It could be the wall socket. Have tried another in a different room?

95M3Fanatic · 95M3Fanatic #3 (**permalink**)

04-06-2011, 03:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baggss

It could be the wall socket. Have tried another in a different room?

Not yet. I'm scared to. It did it on other sockets in the room!

the8thark · the8thark #4 (**permalink**)

04-06-2011, 08:03 AM

Try something else in that socket. Something you are ok with losing. And if the same thing happens you know it's the socket. But yeah a different room is a hood idea too. Cause that is probably on a different circuit in the house. The kitchen is a good one to try cause it's usually on a different circuit to the bedrooms living room. But have look at your circuit breaker just to make sure.

carmidy · carmidy #5 (**permalink**)

04-06-2011, 03:59 PM

That is scary!! Do you have a lot of stuff plugged in on that wall? I had an empty socket and the same thing happened with my lamp when I tried to plug it in. But I realized I had a lot of other stuff going on in the other sockets on that wall. Once I unplugged them it was fine!

iggibar · iggibar #6 (**permalink**)

04-06-2011, 04:04 PM

Did you check to see if the magsafe attachment is clean? Since it is magnetic, it can attract metal stuff. Happened to mine after I was working on my G5 case.

95M3Fanatic · 95M3Fanatic #7 (**permalink**)

04-06-2011, 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by idrinorbarsaku

Did you check to see if the magsafe attachment is clean? Since it is magnetic, it can attract metal stuff. Happened to mine after I was working on my G5 case.

I never thought about the charging end being dirty like that. I have some electronic connection cleaner laying around. I'll try hitting it with that.

BrianLachoreVPI · BrianLachoreVPI #8 (**permalink**)

04-06-2011, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by idrinorbarsaku

Did you check to see if the magsafe attachment is clean? Since it is magnetic, it can attract metal stuff. Happened to mine after I was working on my G5 case.

This seems like a much more likely candidate cause. There's not much in a wall socket to go wrong - and if something in there was fault causing (of the exciting type you described) - you would have found out without plugging something in. I gotta think it's either a faulty adapter or perhaps as idrinorbarsaku described - although - I'd be surprised that Apple didn't put a fail safe mechanism in the adapter just in case terminals did get shorted. I didn't think the magsafes were polarity sensitive - so I don't think there is a "backwards".

95M3Fanatic · 95M3Fanatic #9 (**permalink**)

04-06-2011, 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by idrinorbarsaku

Did you check to see if the magsafe attachment is clean? Since it is magnetic, it can attract metal stuff. Happened to mine after I was working on my G5 case.

I never thought about the charging end being dirty like that. I have some electronic connection cleaner laying around. I'll try hitting it with that.

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Member Since: Apr 03, 2011 Location: MD Posts: 25 Mac Specs: 15" MBP 2.66ghz i7, 8gbram, 1tb hdd	04-06-2011, 03:21 AM i just plugged in my macbook charger backwards into the surge protector. big spark and all the power went out in my room. i had to go downstairs and flip the breaker switch back on. but then i plugged it in the other way and the same thing happened so it has to be the charger. going to take it into the apple store tomorrow and let them test it out. I'm going to LOL in real life when all the lights in the store/mall go out!!!!!
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Member Since: Oct 10, 2004 Location: Margaritaville Posts: 10,306 Mac Specs: 27" 3.4 Ghz i7 iMac-13" C2D Macbook-OSX 18.8.2-64Gb iPad 2-32 Gb iPhone 5-ATV 2-14Tb of Storage	04-06-2011, 03:25 AM It could be the wall socket. Have tried another in a different room?
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Member Since: Jan 27, 2007 Location: Brisvegas Posts: 5,658 Mac Specs: 17 inch 2 GHz C2D imac (5,1) with 3GB DDR2 RAM, X1600 (128MB memory) GPU - OSX 10.6.3	04-06-2011, 08:03 AM Try something else in that socket. Something you are ok with losing. And if the same thing happens you know it's the socket. But yeah a different room is a hood idea too. Cause that is probably on a different circuit in the house. The kitchen is a good one to try cause it's usually on a different circuit to the bedrooms living room. But have look at your circuit breaker just to make sure.
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