[mekako]

I woud like to make some members aware, and exercise some caution when handling your A/C charger for your Mp3 player.

Today as usual I connected my my Mp3 player to the A/C charger to charege it up

Lights came on as normal looked away, and within 5 to 6 seconds the charger blew up! bang,flash and lots of smoke.

First instinct was for me to swicth off A/C power then unplug the lead out of the player.

Luckily the Mp3 player survived this incident, however I opened up theA/C charger and both mains feed wires were totally blasted off the PCB board and a zenor diode shattered.

My guess is on inspection that one of the mains wires that feed the PCB came loose and created the dead short.

However thinking back I did drop my A/C charger once, and perhaps this was enough to loosen the wire, which was perhaps not soldered correctly.

Based on all of this, I think that, when I get a replacement charger, I shall open it up first and check the wireing before use.

Thought I would share this with you guys