Re: OT: update on ThinkPad electrical problem

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Yikes! Should be: "helpful to know." An insidious typo, particularly when I
was getting cute with "combination of bads."
--Harry
> That there can be such a combination of bads is helpful to now. Thanks for
> posting, and I hope the problem is now easily solved.
> > There is an update re the A21 TP situation. I thought
> > the most likely thing was that I would need to replace
> > that internal power board. But it now seems to have
> > been some combination of a battery that is now
> > marginal (quickly drops from about 82% charge to
> > near-zero) and the transformer brick in particular.
> > I've confirmed this by means of spares lifted from
> > another A21. No more incidence of power switch
> > failures. From what I'm hearing, it is not uncommon
> > for the transformer bricks on various devices to go
> > bad. First time I've run into this, though.
> >
> >
> >  Jordan
>
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx


Harry Binswanger
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