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Sony Recalls 3.5M AC Adapters For Slim PS2s 22

Posted by Zonk from the deja-vu-ala-xbox dept.
nevergleam writes "Sony is recalling over 3.5 million power adapters upon reports that they are overheating. According to The Times Online, there has been one incident of minor shock, and four incidences of property damage. There is a web site available to see if the recall applies to your unit." From the article: "The adaptors were made between August and December last year for the slimline PlayStation 2. About 2.3 million of the affected machines were sold in Europe, with the remaining 1.2 million sold in Asia, Australia and North America."
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  • Hmm... it appears Sony has had another common problem with the X-Boxes. Both had bad DVD drives in the orginals, now we have overheating power adaptors. Coincedence? I think not.

    Come to mention it, both Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb's last names both start with a 'P' and have those little dots in their names... I'm onto them now.

    • 8Bit theater reference maybe?

      Yeah, my PS2 got the famous disc read error. Thankfully they fixed it for free, got it back in about a week. Haven't had any problems since (been at least a year since then).

      A friend of mine on the other hand got an Xbox shortly after it came out. His had similar read problems. He had to send it in two or three times before it finally started working properly. Then later he traded it in for a limited translucent one. Only notable thing about that was he didn't think
      • Your buddy never learnt how to use a memory card? I guess he deserves to lose his saves if hes dumb enough to not realize they would disappear.

        Anyway, on a side note, it comes off that your using that argument as an anti-xbox one, but that would be silly (even though sony fanboys are capable of worse), so I'll give you the benifit of the doubt.
        • No, I really didn't mean it as pro- or anti- anything. It was just a string of bad luck for my friend. Though I think the KOTOR saves were too big for memory cards. Even still, he just totally forgot about it and didn't think to back anything up.
      • 8 bit, yup... and the other post was correct, they don't have the period... messed it up

    • Re:no way.. (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Hmm... it appears Sony has had another common problem with the X-Boxes. Both had bad DVD drives in the orginals, now we have overheating power adaptors. Coincedence? I think not.

      It's probably just a crappy port [penny-arcade.com].

      Come to mention it, both Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb's last names both start with a 'P' and have those little dots in their names... I'm onto them now.

      Actually, neither Dr Pepper nor Mr Pibb include a period in the name.

  • Biting people on the ass (Score:5, Interesting)

    by GigsVT ( 208848 ) on Tuesday September 13, 2005 @03:12PM (#13550355) Journal
    I had a Linksys ethernet switch that came with a small wall-wart that was obviously a switch-mode power supply, very light weight. The thing got so hot that the label turned brown.

    I'm making the assumption these failed power supplies are SMPS, the article didn't say, but I bet it was.

    Companies are looking to skimp on production and shipping costs by ditching old style linear transformer wall warts and going to switching power supplies, but a switch mode power supply is something that is not very tolerant to crappy design that cuts corners and overloads the supply.

    If you overload a linear the voltage will just drop below the usable threshold. If you overload a switcher it'll seem to work for a while, overheat and fail, sometimes spectacularly.

    It's biting them now, so hopefully they'll learn their lesson.
  • At least they caught the problem before it got too out of hand. I trust the new adapters will be free of charge?
  • Hmm... the US site doesn't seem to have anything about this on their main page. They do have a page http://www.us.playstation.com/Adaptor/ [playstation.com] for american owners, but the page linked in the article is supposedly for all jursdictions, but I'd trust this one first. They also make you send your "defective" adapter in before you can get a new one. I wonder how many people will do that?
  • 2 points:
    1. my AC adapter failed 2 weeks ago so i bought a 3rd party unit (uhg, now it's wasted $30!)
    2. the replacement page linked only covers europe, and my AC adapter *IS* covered... The US Playstation website [playstation.com] still doesn't say anything, nor does the Consumer Alerts [playstation.com] page... uhg!

    *bonus point* - calling sony US support, they gave me this number: 1-888-780-7690 to deal with it. :)
    *bonus bonus point* - calling that 888 number directed me to the Sony US page (linked above) several times - i'm probably just g
  • Mine falls under the 'faulty' adaptors, but neither the US or Europe Adaptor sites have anything to fill in, and the Australian PS2 site has nothing about it.

    I'll be contacting EB Games tomorrow to see if they know anything about it, and I'll post up here for anyone else that's stuck.
  • Dude did you hear?

    No man, what?

    Shock and Burnie [penny-arcade.com] has been ported to the PS2! It's 'bout time, I mean Sony needed something to sell more PS2s this holiday season.

    Yeah, I was geting bored with DVD Blowout [consumeraffairs.com]. I'll bet the Gamecube doesn't get this game.

    Dude, no one cares about the lamecube, it's just for kidz. Nintendo wouldn't dare do something like this.

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