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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. Safety marks by owlstead · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've just counted the number of logo's on a Dell power supply; there are 20 logo's of testing organizatons for as many countries.

    What exactly do these organizations do? Not one of them took a look at the power supply design and said something in the line of: "you probably shouldn't do it like that"?

    Or is this one of those "lets switch components in the middle of production" stories?