Sony recall slimline Ps2 power adapters

Just thought I\'d bring it up.
Sony Recalls PS2 Adapters Martyn Williams, IDG News Service
1 hour, 27 minutes ago
 


Sony Computer Entertainment is asking for the return of about 3.6 million power adapters supplied with its slim-version PlayStation 2, promising replacement because of a danger that they may overheat, melt, and injure users.


The company issued a recall notice to customers worldwide on Tuesday and warned that the adapters in question shouldn\'t be used until they have been replaced.

Overheating Reported

In the U.S., the company has already received reports of 38 adapters overheating. Among those incidents were 19 cases in which the adapters melted, Sony said in a statement. Details about the types of adapters being recalled and the procedure for returning them and obtaining replacements are available online from Sony.


The company also acknowledged four reports of minor property damage, two reports of minor burns, and one report of a minor shock.


"Not all of the AC adapters in question may be defective but as we are not able to identify which are defective, we are voluntarily recalling all to make sure all customers are safe," said Nanako Kato, a spokesperson for Sony Computer Entertainment in Tokyo.

Product Specs

In North America, the recall covers about 960,000 adapters shipped with SCPH-70011 or SCPH-70012 PlayStation 2 consoles. The adapters in question bear date codes between "2004.08" and "2004.12" and have serial numbers beginning with "F3," said SCEI\'s U.S. subsidiary in a statement.


In Japan, about 60,000 possibly faulty adapters were shipped with SCPH-70000CB model consoles. They bear the same manufacturing dates and all carry the model code "HP-AT048H03."


The European adapters subject to the recall include about 2.3 million units shipped with SCPH-70002, SCPH-70003 and SCPH-70004 models. Like the Japanese models, they carry manufacturing dates between "2004.08" and "2004.12" and the model code "HP-AT048H03."

Wasn\'t sure of the validity of this but here is a link to CSPC about it:  http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml05/05267.html

Luckily mine was not one of those involved.

First Microsoft, now Sony.

I never swapped my Xbox thing, probably won\'t do this either...

-Dan

not concerned

this is for the morons who run thier power bricks under thier couches

This is annoying. However, becuz it\'s free, I\'ll get it.

Originally posted by mm
not concerned

this is for the morons who run thier power bricks under thier couches

I bought one for a friend this summer.So I called him to ask him which model he owns just in case.

I told him that most likely his wont have a problem since I ve never heard of such an incident so it is extremely rare.He told me that he knew someone who\'s slimline PS2 died from heat recently.He didnt have it on carpet nor did he run "his power brick under his couch" thats for sure.

So I guess some are really defective.But you have to be extremely unlucky if you happen to own one and overheats

[Evi]

The Slimlines do overheat like a bitch, but I\'ve never had any problems with it.