My good old Acer laptop started to smoke sitting on the couch yesterday evening.
Growing old, in cat years my laptop is an old gray tomcat, but with a SSD and some good memory, you can grow old rather vividly these laptop days. A mouse a day keeps the doctor away.
But it wasn’t smoking a cigar; the wire near the plug was short-circuited, probably all the bending in a lifetime was suddenly to much this particular evening.
Lucky me, I saw it starting to smoke, so I unplugged it immediately. The adapter was, like any good house-cat, lying on the newspaper. Wow, my house could end up in a fire, taking a piss. So I need a new charger.
Then I started to look for a new adapter, old laptops work fine, but old batteries are suffering from age, and I couldn’t find a good fit.
All brands seems to have a specific adapter size for their chargers, so I made a table with power connector plug sizes for different laptop brands:
| Brand | Plug Size | Volt | Ampere |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acer | 5.5mm x 1.7mm | 19V | 2.0A – 4.74A |
| Asus | 5.5mm x 2.5mm | 19V | 3.42A – 4.74A |
| Asus Netbook | 2.35mm x 0.7mm | 19V | 2.1A |
| Clevo laptops | 5.5mm x 2.5mm | 19V | 2.1A |
| Dell | 7.4mm x 5.0mm | 19.5V | 3.34A – 4.5A |
| Fujitsu | 6.3mm x 3.0mm | 16V | 4.7A |
| HP | 4.8mm x 1.7mm | 18.5V | 3.5A |
| IBM / Lenovo Thinkpad | 7.9mm x 5.5mm | 20V | 3.5A – 4.5A |
| Lenovo | 5.5mm x 2.5mm | 19V | 3.42A – 4.74A |
| Sony | 6.3mm x 3.0mm | 16V | 4.7A |
| Toshiba | 5.5mm x 2.5mm | 19V | 3.0A – 4.74A |
These are the most common ones, please let me know any mistakes or omissions.
November 5th, 2017 at 5:06 pm
Hi, I have a comment about this post, where comments are already turned off:
https://dev.webonomic.nl/how-to-disable-css-transforms-transistions-and-animations
While this was certainly helpful, I ran into some sites where it didn’t work, e.g.
http://www.pella.com/
https://stephanwagner.me/only-css-loading-spinner
And I found that I have to use *, :before, :after as the CSS selector instead of just * to override the animations that are defined using :before and :after, e.g.
*, :before, :after {
animation:none !important;
}
The CSS spinners on some pages hang my browser, so I had to find a way to get rid of all of them.
Maybe you’d like to update the post, it seems to be a popular one.
November 30th, 2017 at 6:33 pm
Thx, I added your comment to the post