How do wires for phone chargers or headsets and various electronics stop working or lose effectiveness?
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They break. Wire is metal, and while metal can be bent in all kinds of directions, it does stress the material until finally, it breaks. Even a stranded wire, that’s made up of a bunch of very small gauge wires twisted or braided together, can and will develop a break or gaps at a point where all of the smaller wires have broken and pulled away from the connection point due to the movement of the casing material. It happens with all wires and cables, but headphones and phone chargers see the most frequent movement, and have thin gauge cables to begin with, so the breaks appear to happen more frequently with them.
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