[ltp] power supply DC cords breaks?

[Niel Lambrechts]

Dean Hedin wrote:

> 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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>
>
I was making this judgement on the fact that multiple parties reported a 
breakage at the same location near the power supply itself. It happened 
to me when my thinkpad was less than 6 months old... Fwiw, I've also had 
a DVD-writer and system board replaced (the laptop would not even show 
the BIOS screen when powering it up). (And it was treated like a piece 
of gold!)

I bought this laptop at my own expense, and as an ex-IBMer I feel it 
reasonable to expect a quality standard from them that exceeds most if 
not all of the rest.

Regards,
Niel