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IBM Recalls 553,000 Laptop Power Units

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the if-apple-can-do-it dept.

qewl writes "The 56-watt adapters can overheat, cause damage to the circuit board and melt through the case, the company and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. About 225,000 of the adapters are being recalled in the United states. The power adapters were shipped mostly with IBM ThinkPad i Series, ThinkPad 390 and 240 Series and a limited number of ThinkPad s Series laptop computers and have the part number 02K6549, the agency said."

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  1. Whatever happened to single chip power supplies? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I thought we were all going to be using single chip power supplys like the Tinyswitch... they can do 240 to 5v on a chip connected directly to the mains and sink about 800ma.
    They were going to be the next big thing, and then we were all back to switched mode blocks with all their coils and components and heatsinks.