[ltp] power supply DC cords breaks?

[Dean Hedin]

In the time you wasted typing about it you could haved grabed an old 
extension cord
shrink tube, and a soldering iron and fixed the situation.

I can't count how many times I have repaired a cord of some type of 
electronic equipment. If I were to guess it would be in the many hundreds. 
Wall warts & laptop supplies make up a good portion of that number.

Think IBM has a quality control issue?  Well maybe you should complain to 
UL,  they approved the supply for your consumption.

Maybe IBM will send you a new supply.  Do you really want to wait that long?

Power cords  fray over time.  It's just a fact of life. Deal with it and 
move on.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Knott" <james.knott@rogers.com>
To: <linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: [ltp] power supply DC cords breaks?


> Niel Lambrechts wrote:
>> Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 06:52 -0700, Dan Sawyer wrote:
>>>
>>>> The DC cord on a couple of Thinkpad power supplies appears to have 
>>>> intermittent or broken. The plugs are available however I have no 
>>>> experience with the actual cords. Has anyone had this problem? If so 
>>>> how did you resolve it? I am thinking replacing the plug is the best 
>>>> way.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mine broke like that about a week ago. I made an online Electronic
>>> Service Call [1] to IBM and received a brand new power supply by DHL the
>>> next morning. Kudos to IBM for their outstanding service...
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Brix
>>>
>>> [1]: https://www-930.ibm.com/support/esc/
>>>
>>
>>
>> EER. Mine broken close to the actual power supply too a while ago and was 
>> rapidly replaced by IBM.
>> BUT
>> I rather think the point is that IBM should look at the number of 
>> failures and realise that something is designed badly.
>
> So, perhaps you know what percentage of them fail?  Maybe the problem is 
> not as prevalent as you think.  I've never seen one fail that way, even 
> though I've worked with hundreds of ThinkPads over the years.
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