[olpc-help] charging battery/running with power cord

[Steve Holton]

Officially?  You call Donor Services at 800-201-7144 (Monday through Friday,
9:00 am to 8:00 PM EST)  and explain to them your power supply is
bad...yada....yada.....ask for an RMA, package your XO back up, wait 2-4
weeks......

Unofficially?

Stick two sewing ping very carefully  through the power cord into the
conductors and measure for voltage. (Do NOT try this if you don't already
know what I'm talking about.)

If you've got power coming out of the brick, but it's not making it to the
connector, your connector is bad. See "Officially" above.

If there's no power in the line, then something in the brick is bad (Fuse?
Transformer winding? Diode? who knows)
Now you have another option: abandon the thought of claiming warranty for
your brick, snip the wire well away from the XO connector and add-in a new
(male) generic one. Now you can build any number of 12 volt, 15 watt supply
sources (Car charger, AC adapter, Solar panel, hand crank, etc) and connect
whichever one you need into your (highly available) connector and charge
your XO *your way*.

And if the the AC adapter you provide breaks again, swap in a generic new
one.

It shouldn't have broken so quick, I agree.  And I've got some sharp
questions to whomever chose a non-standard plug for the power. But this
getsd you back and running again.


On Jan 10, 2008 8:45 PM, nicksan1 <community-support at lists.laptop.org>
wrote:

>
> Wilson - tks again.  I found another 12v output cord and tried it.  I did
> get power to the laptop but the cord doesn't quite fit, I have to hold it in
> place.  But I guess this proves that the cord sent with the laptop is bad.
>
> Steve Holton - how can I get another power cord?
>
> Tks - Nick
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