| reply to Geebo
Re: Laptop Battery? 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. |
