[OLPC-AU] XO laptops overheating in power racks

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 14 October 2010 15:53, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> The XO-1 and XO-1.5 should be verified as off before being placed in a
> charging rack, when using any version of the software that resumes from
> suspend on lid open.  With XO-1.5 that means any version, at the moment.
>
> Laptops in close proximity can behave as if their lid has been opened,
> because of interaction between the sensor magnets.
>
> With the laptop being charged, while also operating, and insulated from
> airflow by the presence of other laptops, there is a risk of damage.

Just to clear up the title of this conversation, the XOP charging
racks are contributing to the problem only because they put the XOs in
close proximity with each other - close enough for a magnet in one XO
to affect another.

My first suspicion was that the XOP power bricks were frying the XOs,
but this theory was proven false.