IBM recall 550,000 Units which have the potential of fire power adapter
September 3 sources said, IBM Corporation on September 2, local time, announced that it will at a global scale recall 553,000 laptop Units use the power adapter, the reasons for existence are the fire and allow users of the potential dangers of electricity.
IBM Corporation and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said that this 56 watts of power adapter the temperature will rise very high, may damage the circuit board and cause melting shell. CPSC said it has received the accident report 6. 6 incident involving a certain
Property damage, but caused no injuries. In the United States, approximately 225,000 Units This power adapter is being recalled process.
These are the main power Toshiba PA3467U-1ACA AC Adapter with IBM ThinkPad i Series, ThinkPad390, 240Series and ThinkPadsSeries a small number of laptop sales, spare parts number 02K6549. These laptop sales time is from January 1999 to August 2000, priced at 55 U.S. dollars. These power HP Pavilion ZV5000 AC Adapter are from China Taiwan region produced by Delta Electronics.
CPSC recommends that users immediately stop using these power adapter, call 1-800-410-5629 or visit http://www.adapterprogram.com/ with the IBM company, request a free replacement.
The defective adapters were sold with certain ThinkPad 310 and ThinkPad iSeries notebooks and with the WorkPad z50, IBM's Windows CE subnotebook. About 220,000 adapters were sold in the United States, according to the company.
Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM advises consumers not to leave unattended an AC adapter plugged into a power source, as the adapter could catch fire.
The company recalled the hardware following nine reported instances of overheating AC adapters, an IBM representative said, adding that no injuries were reported.
"We just want to take care of this thing as quickly as possible," the representative said.
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