HP Recalls 6 Million Power Cables Over Fire Hazard

Via the Consumerist comes news that HP is recalling power cables after about 30 reports that they were melting from regular use. From the article: Hewlett-Packard received 29 reports of the melting or charring power cords, two that included claims of minor burns and 13 claims of minor property damage. The black power cords were distributed with HP and Compaq notebook and mini notebook computers and with AC adapter-powered accessories such as docking stations and have an "LS-15" molded mark on the AC adapter. About 5.6 million power cords were sold in the United States, while 446,700 were sold in Canada from September 2010 to June 2012 at electronic stores and hp.com.

20 failures from 6 million power cords? recall!

[Anonymous Coward]

I am actually impressed that 20 failures from 6 million power cords leads to a recall. Seriously, I love the fact that we have building techniques that a failure rate that low is _completely_ unacceptable :)

Humanity really does kick serious arse sometimes.

Re: 20 failures from 6 million power cords? recall

[jones_supa]

Do still not forget that 20 is the amount who happened to run into problems and bothered to file a proper complaint. It is a hint that there might be actually thousands of faulty cables.

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Re: Not the PSUs? The actual cables?

[j235]

... and Americans "yanks". Again, nobody gets offended, but there's probably more reason to be offended by those terms than by "pakis".

Yes I'm offended by this. I'm an American, but I'm not a Yankee, thank you very much.