I don't know if I can get an estimation of the number of broken chargers. I'll try and get it. I can certainly tell you as a fact that over 70% of the broken chargers suffer from this problem. <br><br>The plug outlet is also a problem, but is not as big, and it seems that the problem has more to do with the europlug design rather than some flaw in the charger. The plug was actually pretty solid. The only problem could be that the metal contacts at the end of the round legs where pretty thick (relative to the plastic) and so sometines they got kind of stuck in the socket when trying to pull it off. <br>
<br>Regards, <br>Ismael<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/28 John Watlington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wad@laptop.org">wad@laptop.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Ismael,<br>
Please provide percentages, not adjectives like "BIG".<br>
Uruguay has reported problems with the adapters in the past,<br>
but the complaint was that the pins that plug into the wall outlet<br>
were breaking off, not that the cords were breaking.<br>
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John</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On Jan 28, 2010, at 1:41 AM, ismael schinca wrote:<br>
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Hello everyone! Here at Uruguay broken laptop chargers is also a BIG problem, and I would dare say (personal opinion, not fact data) that over 95% of those chargers have broken cables, and from those over 80% break at the connection between the cable and DC barrel plug. Actually, it's the positive cable (the white one running inside) that almost always seems to be the problem. It gets cut at that point, it's not a soldering issue or similar.<br>
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I realize it's best to have a broken charger rather than a broken laptop, but it would be really good if that part of the connection could be improved. It would be really difficult to ask all the users to always pull the cord from the connector rather than from the cable and to also properly wrap the cable after using the charger. They are kids after all :)<br>
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Cheers,<br>
<br>
Ismael Schinca<br>
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2010/1/26 Richard A. Smith <<a href="mailto:richard@laptop.org" target="_blank">richard@laptop.org</a>><br>
On 01/25/2010 09:27 PM, James Cameron wrote:<br>
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> But my original reading of what you said suggests the failures are at<br>
> the AC end of the cable ... the power supply housing is a "big green<br>
> plug" and it goes into the wall power socket.<br>
><br>
> Which is it?<br>
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I'll add that we have one other report from Nepal of the cable failing.<br>
There we believe its the kids pulling the laptop out of the charging<br>
rack and forgetting to unplug it first.<br>
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For Nepal it fails at both the connection to the power brick and at the<br>
connection to the barrel connector with the largest number of failures<br>
occurring at the barrel.<br>
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