Where to buy long power cord?

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alosito · #1 Post by **alosito** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:23 pm

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?

#2 Post by **rkawakami** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:32 pm

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.

alosito · #3 Post by **alosito** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:58 pm

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?

#4 Post by **rkawakami** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:25 pm

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.

ArtShapiro · #5 Post by **ArtShapiro** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:21 am

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

#6 Post by **rkawakami** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:27 am

Or you could just carry a 20' extension cord

. That way you could also plug in your iPod or phone charger too!

ducky2802 · #7 Post by **ducky2802** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:02 am

Any "figure 8" plug will do. Like this one

alosito · #8 Post by **alosito** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:08 am

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?

#9 Post by **bill bolton** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:31 am

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.

#10 Post by **gator** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:40 am

The spare adapter is on sale now for $8.16 shipped:
http://stores.channeladvisor.com/Lenovo ... /ca02k6880?

Ken Fox · #11 Post by **Ken Fox** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:43 am

gator wrote:The spare adapter is on sale now for $8.16 shipped:
http://stores.channeladvisor.com/Lenovo ... /ca02k6880?

this is the old 56w adapter suitable for use with the X3x and x4x series, but not the x6x series.

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