Last summer, I bought a refurb "Lenovo 90W Ultraslim AC/DC Combo Adapter - US/Canada (41R4493)" shipped to a US address where I was staying.
It's worked fine thought I'm a little disappointed with the overall size (I had visions of its ultraslimness letting me just tuck it into a corner of my case, but with all the cables and adapters it ends up pretty bulky; oh well it was a really good price for a second adapter). However I only used it with the 120V connector. About a month ago I tried it in the car and it didn't work! I also tried it in the cigarette-lighter adapter of an emergency car starter (portable battery) and again the computer didn't see any power. I'm assuming the problem is with the adapter and not the computer, and that it's some part of the device that's used in a car and not in a wall outlet (called "DC Input Cable" or perhaps "Cigarette lighter plug (auto/air connector)" at http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-73396 I think). I also assume the refurb unit had only 90 days waranty and not 1 year, though I don't have access to the paperwork at this moment. Is there anything I can get Lenovo to do? The page cited above shows a picture labelled "DC Input Cable" that I think actually includes the "Cigarette lighter plug", the former being the parallelogram+empower connector and the latter being a empower-lighter adapter? Interesting that both have replacement FRUs that are not the original. I can't find a way to buy just those parts on the Lenovo site (and I'm worried they'd be expensive). Is there any other way or source? Thanks! -- Andrew mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
