The Cable Guy Blew Up My Powerbook > Laptop Battery?

Laptop Battery?

Laptop battery is probably true, but only after it got shocked did it go nuts.

reply to Geebo
Didja bother to RTFA? Don't bother reading it, just look at the pictures as I'm sure you can do that.

Explain to everyone here how an exploding laptop battery did all the damage to the cable modem, the F connector on the RG-6 and the attached Maxtor hard drive?

Or are you just being facetious?

reply to Geebo
No, the battery didn't explode, it's in a different area of the laptop. I imagine the voltage regulator circutry did explode, and there was likely lots of arcing going on.

The area of the PB which shows the worst hit is the area near the power conductor. That's why I mentioned ground in my earlier post; it wasn't the the Ethernet cable to the modem which caused the problem; that's transformer-coupled at both ends anyway and couldn't carry near enough voltage or current to do that damage. What most likely happened is the shield of the coax was got raised to some ridiculous potential with respect to the electrical ground. That current got dumped into the ground conductor through the cable modem, and then found its way to true ground through anything else plugged in, including the Powerbook.

I just pooped in my pants a little bit while laughing at this unfortunate souls dilemma....