<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2">Hi Folks, <br><br>Please see a snippet of a report below from our support person in Lubang Philippines. Can't say our group wasn't bracing for this. The source of the failures for 1) and 2) is yet to be determined. Our support person there do not have the equipment nor the time to go in depth on figuring it out (he did some initial tests based on troubleshooting guidelines available online). But one thing that's of great concern for our group was the frequent power outages in the island. We've witnessed the power cycling 5-6 times when we were there. We can't go on replacing these parts until we at least address a healthy power supply. <br>
<br>So having said that...I know this had already been done somewhere and we don't want to re-invent the wheel. I am looking for designs for bulk/gang chargers (200 laptops) with surge protection built in and which takes advantage of local materials, and potential to scale (we can't afford solar panels yet). The link to the XO Bulk charger on the OLPC-SF page gives me an error. <br>
<br>Thankfully, the children are managing with charging their laptops in neighbors homes and the teachers brought extension cords so the ones without working batteries can work in the classroom. They are managing ok for now. <br>
<br>Thanks, <br>Cherry <br> <br></font>-----------------------------------------------------------<br><font size="2">Good PM! With regards
to our OLPC Program here in Lubang we wish to raise some
concerns on our XO
Laptops:</font></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="2"><span style="line-height: 115%;">1.<span>
</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">We
already have 30 units of non-working
chargers, 20 units from the 1<sup>st</sup> deployment (launched November 2010) and
10 units for the
second deployment (launched Oct 2011. Four weeks of use!!!).</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="2"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></font></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="2"><span style="line-height: 115%;">2.<span>
</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">We
have 15 units of non-working XO Laptop
batteries, 9 units from the 1<sup>st</sup> deployment and
6 units from the 2<sup>nd</sup>
deployment .</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="2"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></font></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="2"><span style="line-height: 115%;">3.<span>
</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">We
found some problems on the Internal
Storages of XO Laptops specifically the Micro SD Storages,
2 units from the 1<sup>st</sup>
deployment and 8 units from the 2<sup>nd</sup> deployment.</span></font></div>