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Dell Recalls Millions of AC Adaptors

Posted by michael on from the huh-huh-fire-fire-fire dept.

matgyver writes "Both CNET and CNN are reporting that Dell is recalling 4.4 million AC adapters worldwide. About 990,000 of those were sold to US consumers, 1.5 million to US businesses, and the rest where outside the US. The adapters were sold with laptops between 1998 and 2002 and included Dell's Latitude, Inspiron, and Precision laptops. The part numbers for the adapters are 9364U, 7832D and 4983D. Apparently the adapters run the risk of overheating and can be a fire and electrocution risk."

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  1. Only those manufactured by "Delta" in Thailand by Derling+Whirvish · · Score: 5, Informative
    Not all AC adapters with those part numbers are affected. It involves only those manufactured by Delta Electronics in Thailand. I have a 09364U but it is manufactured by Astec in China and is not recalled.

    Go to this page and see if yours are the ones actually recalled.

  2. Common part by LightStruk · · Score: 5, Informative
    First IBM, now Dell? A month apart? I'm betting there's a common part inside these that's failing--it's probably not just these two companies.
    Right you are - in both cases the AC adapters were made by Delta Electronics of Thailand.