Doug, I will assume your kids have not been playing yo yo with the yo yo or someone has not been using it to play frisbee with the dog...........It appears that the cord/cable that goes from the wall to my yo yo adapter has a break in it right near the adapter end. Tonight I noticed that the battery wasn't charging, and when I moved the cable, there is this pretty little bright white light that flashes about a half inch from the round cable end.
Does anyone have any recommendations on a good source for one of these? I'm presuming that it is possible to just by the cable, not the whole power adapter.
Doug
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Recommendation 1. Stop using it now. I would assume arcing could cause a power surge and possible damage. I would not feel confident that the insides of the yo yo have not been damaged by the arcing. Greater minds then mine will chime in on how much the power is converted to supply the precise + or _ amount needed in your book and the limits of fluctuations. Look in the owners manual. Call Apple Care, if your book is covered. Apple Care is getting a little more "corporate" these days, so a call to them if applicable would be a good move on getting this replaced and putting them on notice this "event" happened..
Recommendation 2. Contact Apple and tell them the YO YO is arcing, I am sure they will send you a new one. This is a poor design and when I sent my Pismo in for repair the YO YO came back in this arcing condition, goes back to that "corporate" thing again.
This Yo YO seems to be one of those designs that looks cool but with average wear and tear may hurt someone really hard someday. Please, Apple does need a" real" 5300 disaster, the 5300 did not even touch a consumers hand and the world believed, or 95% of it, that the 5300s were burning down homes and blowing up in users hands. That is another story, not Apples fault.
I did not notice mine arcing until 2 days after I got my book back from repairs not related to the YO YO. In my case I leaned out of bed to pick it up and it arced bad enough to discolor the yo yo with a bright blue and white flash. My book was not plugged in.
I like the small foot print of the yo yo but the connector should have been engineered out to be tougher. It's just asking for trouble as these yo yos start to age. The brick power plugs were heavy, but a built like a tank. I would take a tank over fire or possible damage to my computer any day. The line cord to the computer rolls nice. The wall plug will wear if you roll it.
Speak to a Ms. Wells at Apple World Wide Support at the mother ship, I am sure she will be glad to help. Anyone lower and you will get a phone bank and get no where but around the phone tree. Go to the source. Good luck and I will give you the quote from Ms. Wells at Apple Corporate after they fessed up 2 days later that they indeed used or switched the yo yo and battery from my book, "stop using the power supply immediately, continuation of the use of the power supply could cause serious injury that Apple will not be liable for".
Recommendation 3. Let Apple off the hook, get one from ebay for 50 bucks or so. Sooner then later people will be pranged by this and that's a concern. I really love Apple products, but the only way to maintain the quality is hold their feet to the fire, no pun intended, and expect and accept nothing but the best. I mean hey it's only a power cord right, but the power cord problems of the 5300 should have made them wise that this is a weak road of R&D not to travel again. Let them know you will not buy inferior products. That's the way Apple used to do business, it was like an extended family member. You felt like part of the company. You could count on opening the box and the computer worked and still works today. Now it seems their moving a little closer to that "corporate thing", ROI over returned bad parts or worse,. better then the other choice by far, for now, hopefully for a long time.
Recommendation 4. Read all the other good posts on this subject, easy fix
Good luck Be safe Geoff
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