Fiery death

So, over the course of the past few days, I’ve been slowly watching my laptop’s AC adapter slowly wasting away, starting with a split in the plastic coating of a wire sometime last week and ending today with a bit of flame and a lot of smoke. At work. In a room full of people. Amazingly, no one actually saw my power supply writhing in its death throes, but almost everyone smelled the smoke. Luckily, I was able to unplug it before things got too out of hand, but not before leaving a nice little scorch mark on the desk.

This is, of course, very annoying. My laptop has only about 2 or 2.5 hours of battery life (if that), and without a power supply, I have no way to recharge. But I am not completely without foresight. As soon as I noticed the adapter really start to go south (about yesterday), I ordered a replacement part, which was just shipped out early this morning. It should get here, hopefully, later this week. Until then…well, I’ll just have to avoid using my laptop as much as I can to avoid running it down completely. Either that or risk it with the power supply, which, considering today’s events, I’d really rather not do.

The Aftermath

So, I decided to take some pictures of the ruined adapter, just to show how bad the thing got fried. My nose suffered a lot to bring you these photos…