You're right - it shouldn't do that...yet. But remember - it's a connector...one of the 3 most failure prone items. It just so happens that I've been looking at similar connectors in relation to an empeg-related project I'm secretively working on - I want to be able to utilise a standard empeg power brick to occassionally power said device - and I've found that most connectors of this nature have a 5000 cycle or so nominal life expectancy. Based on this, and the fact that people have reported problems before with this connector (mainly the failure to pick up home/car mode), I'd hazard a guess to suggest that this is the component in the empeg that is most likely to fail first in normal use (ignoring any faulty components obviously).