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Where to buy long power cord?
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:23 pm
by alosito
I am happy with my X61 except that its power cord is too short for me. Does anybody know where you can buy a spare power cord for X61that would be longer by a foot or two than the origional one?
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:32 pm
by rkawakami
How long do you need it? Most replacement cords are the same 6 footers that you normally get with the AC adapters. The usual places to try would be Radio Shack, Fry's, Orchard Supply, Home Depot and maybe even the Office Depot and Office Max stores. Is this the regular two pin "figure 8" style cord?
edit: Some of the surplus stores in the area like Halted in Santa Clara and Weird Stuff in Sunnyvale and Surplus Computers in Santa Clara may have some of those cords.
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:58 pm
by alosito
Do they sell just replacement cords or AC adapters for X61 too? I think I will need both. How much do they run for now?
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:25 pm
by rkawakami
The local stores will probably not have a genuine IBM AC adapter. From looking at the tabook, it appears that the X61 uses the 65W adapter (20V 3.25A). A quick check on eBay says that they are available for about $30 (shipped; using Buy-it-Now), less if you are patient. You can also go lenovo.com and check the prices there.
Do You Have Any Soldering Skills?
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:21 am
by ArtShapiro
Why not just make it yourself? My (T42) power cord is about 20 feet long, so I can run it across the floor in a coffee shop to reach one of the outlets. I just chopped off the last few inches at the plug and soldered the plug end and the desired length of wire from a cable in the junk box. This happens to be a two-conductor cord. I had slipped pieces of small heat shrink over the individual conductors prior to soldering, and a piece of bigger heatshrink over one side of the cord. When the soldering was done, I positioned the small heatshrink pieces over the two soldered joints and shrunk 'em, and then did the same for the bigger piece to protect the entirety of the joint.
Been working fine for several years.
Art
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:27 am
by rkawakami
Or you could just carry a 20' extension cord
. That way you could also plug in your iPod or phone charger too!
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:02 am
by ducky2802
Any "figure 8" plug will do. Like this
one
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:08 am
by alosito
rkawakami wrote:A quick check on eBay says that they are available for about $30.
I didn't find any adapters for X61 on Ebay, only for X60. Is it the same one for X61 as for X60?
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:31 am
by bill bolton
alosito wrote:I didn't find any adapters for X61 on Ebay, only for X60. Is it the same one for X61 as for X60?
Yes!
Cheers,
Bill B.
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:40 am
by gator
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:43 am
by Ken Fox
this is the old 56w adapter suitable for use with the X3x and x4x series, but not the x6x series.