Re: Din plug for laptop power supply

[Richard Malcolm-Smith <rich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Graham Howe wrote:

> The power lead on my laptop power supply is damaged, wiggling it about
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ll create a connection, but the slightest movement breaks it again. It
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s like the wire is damaged internally very close to the pluf that goes
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the laptop, but that plug is a moulded unit and I don't think I would be a=
ble to take it off without destroying it. The plug is a 4-pin din plug, a
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it like an s-video cable but with fatter pins. Does anyone know what sort
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f plug this may be and where I can buy one? With luck by cutting the cable
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before the damaged part and then attaching a new din plug I will not have
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o spend the =A3100 plus VAT being demanded by the laptop supplier to
replac=
e the psu!

Sounds like the power cable on my HP/Compaq 1520 monitors. Perhaps thats
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other=20
avenue you can pursue for a PSU? 12 volts unsure of the current


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