Cable gets hot

[dwirb]

hello, just curious when I am charging my iPad the cable that plugs into wall get really hot is this normal?

 

[mysoulishome]

The CABLE gets hot? That is really weird. Never heard of that happening with any USB cable, ever. Is it a genuine Apple item?

 

[dwirb]

Yes it is genuine apple. The box that plugs In and the cable near it gets hot

 

[Kaykaykay]

It's not unusual for chargers to get warm.

It's hard to describe temperatures, though. I've got several chargers, so I have comparison for what's "reasonably" warm. That's vs. one time when I charged and the charger got "unreasonably" hot. In that case, I just unplugged and let things cool down. Still don't know what happened, and the charger hasn't heated up crazily since.