Battery Killing Adapter?

Ok so I had 2 Apple designed power adapters break on me b/c the material came off the wire coil after a year of use on each.
This September past, I decided to buy an iGo power adapater as a more heavy duty altenative. Last Saturday, the adapter just stopped receiving power from the outlets, so I couldn't charge the battery. I exhanged my adapter for a new one. Last night, 5 days later, this adapter failed.
Does anyone know about battery failures that over power the adapters in the Ti series laptops. It's quite frustrating. I can't buy a new $80 adapter every year.

Hi, Christien. Your Apple adapter failures didn't have anything to do with your battery, and it sounds as though your first iGo adapter just died. Possibly the failures of your Apple adapters damaged the circuitry inside the Powerbook in some way that caused your iGo adapters to fail too, but if that were the case, I wouldn't expect everything to run perfectly on battery power, and I would have thought the iGo adapters would both have failed quite quickly and in about the same amount of time, rather than take widely differing amounts of time to fail. I suspect the problem inside the Powerbook, if there is one at all, is more likely to be in the DC-in board (or possibly the Power Management Unit) than in the battery itself, especially since your battery still seems to work fine.

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