Ben,
I highly doubt you would a gotten shocked, as normally the voltage transferred
via USB is very very small, plus with the number of amps, it would be very
unlikely. Now, disclaimer! that said? I never said not to be careful! If you
felt uneasy attempting to use the cord, then yes. It was probably best that
you didn't. I never said there wouldn't be that one in a million time chance
you'd get zizzied.
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From: Ben J. Bloomgren
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Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2016 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: Consistently degrading lightning cables
Okay, I have not seen it happen in a couple of months, but the cable which
originally came with my old iPhone Five did degrade to the point at which I was
scared that I'd get shocked or it'd mess up the phone in some way. The chord to
my iPhone Six S hasn't seemed to do that yet, but I'm paranoid due to my
previous experience. Chris, you may have an aberration, but Apple does need to
rethink the Lightning chords, if they want to maintain their proprietary ways.
Ben
On 5/13/2016 16:22, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
OK, I wonder if anyone else is having, or has had this problem.
Over the years, I've bought quite a few devices that use lightning cables.
Anything from my old IPhone 5, 5S, 6Plus, 6S, a few Apple TV 4's, etc.
Point is, after about 2 or 3, if I'm lucky, months roughly, it seems like
the end of the insolation right where the lightning connector is that goes into
the device, that area seems to keep getting cut/torn. Usually it's not so bad
that the cable stops working, but it's bad enough that it definitely has the
potential that at any moment, it could get worse. I have one cable now which
is almost 98% sebbered all the way through both the insolation and the actual
wire itself. It's pretty pathetic. It seems like most all my cables
eventually are getting to this point, and I swear, I'm not misusing them. I'm
just plugging them in, and unplugging them as normal.
Apparently, I'm by far not the first person who's had this issue. If you
just Google online, you'll find lots of forums and blogs, etc. of people who've
had the same issue quite regularly. So apparently, it must not be just me.
Is it just these things are really badly designed? I'm on hold right now
waiting for Apple to pick up to see if maybe they can replace a few of these
chords, but I'm not very hopeful. They might, but I'm not counting on it.
I'm just wonderring if any of you guys have also found your cables tearing,
getting cut, or worse on a consistent basis right at the tip of the cord like I
am. If so, what are you all doing to get around this, so you don't have to
keep buying cord after cord after cord every few months. This alone is
starting to make me reconsider iOS devices. At least, ones with lightning
connecters.
Lightning's great, but the cords appear to be crap in my opinion based soly
on what I so far have observed. Again, that's stated as an opinion, not a
fact. Keep that in mind.
Chris.
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