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mercury universal adapter dead????

  • 21-03-2009 11:21AM
    #1
    acontadino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 335 ✭✭


    ok this is weird...i got the adapter less than 3 weeks ago...it was working fine one minute and then i plugged it out and plugged it into my upstairs socket and the red digits indicating voltage is not showing.


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  • #2
    acontadino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 335 ✭✭acontadino


    just to say if anybody knew of any possible explanations just say


  • #3
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,330 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Does it still work in any other socket? If not just bring it back to where you got it.


  • #4
    acontadino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 335 ✭✭acontadino


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    Does it still work in any other socket? If not just bring it back to where you got it.

    ok when i hit the top of the box thingy the digits(indicating voltage ) flash on and off like normal but rather than staying there it just goes blank

    im as much looking for explanation as i am for solutions


  • #5
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,330 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    acontadino wrote: »
    ok when i hit the top of the box thingy the digits(indicating voltage ) flash on and off like normal but rather than staying there it just goes blank

    It could be a loose connection or a dodgy wire or something.
    acontadino wrote: »
    im as much looking for explanation as i am for solutions

    Sometimes things just break.


  • #6
    acontadino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 335 ✭✭acontadino


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    It could be a loose connection or a dodgy wire or something.



    Sometimes things just break.

    its smells like rotten eggs so i assume the inside has been fried:eek::D

    reckon theyd refund it? it cost like 80 euro..my problem is now identifying if it did burn and why


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  • #7
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,330 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    acontadino wrote: »
    its smells like rotten eggs so i assume the inside has been fried:eek::D

    reckon theyd refund it? it cost like 80 euro..my problem is now identifying if it did burn and why
    It was bought 3 weeks ago. I'd say they'd refund it.


  • #8
    acontadino
    Closed Accounts Posts: 335 ✭✭acontadino


    in a further twist to this already intriguing tale, the adapter now seems to have come back to life, divine intervention? who the **** knows!!!

    now it leaves me in the rather uncompromising position, get an exchange or assume it was just a little mishap.


  • #9
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,146 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    acontadino wrote: »
    in a further twist to this already intriguing tale, the adapter now seems to have come back to life, divine intervention? who the **** knows!!!

    now it leaves me in the rather uncompromising position, get an exchange or assume it was just a little mishap.
    I'd stop using it tbh, if you got a smell out of it, it sounds like it's fried. Take it back for a refund, don't take chances.


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