Thank the One Above for Little Miricles
My wife's iPad started acting funny and then went totally south.
We went to the Apple Store in Portland, OR and it seemed like it was going to work okay with a new charger and cable.
Of course when we got home it decided to not play nice.
My wife stayed home on the next day. The service rep in the store informed me, they were not made to be serviced and it was time to think of getting a replacement. My wife was catatonic about the idea of losing all of here bookmarks and photos.
A new iPad was purchased, even so Candy was still out of sorts.
Something from working on things electronic in the past told me this wasn't the end. Often an intermittent problem like this responds to being chilled. The old iPad was taken out to my unheated shop and left there overnight.
Currently it seems to be taking a charge and hopefully data recovery will not be a big problem.
Sometimes it seems like the days with tubes and replaceable parts were a little kinder to consumers.
jtk