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Old May 30, 2012 | 9:50 pm
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pdisme
 
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Originally Posted by X3Skier
The charger is rated at 1 Amp so it is about slightly more than a 100 watt light bulb, not much of draw. If the outlet is good for at least that, it must have been NFG.

Hope it works on the flight home.

Cheers
That is definitely too much and you were simply overloading the outlet.

The nice thing about Delta outlets is that they will self-reset if you unplug and plug back in. I have a Dell laptop with a 90 watt external power supply. If I have the laptop configured for 'high performance', as soon as I plug in, the outlet turns off. If I do the trick a previous poster mentioned and remove the battery so as not to activate the charging circuitry in addition to the laptop's own needs, the outlet stays on. If I first put the laptop in power save mode, then plug the power brick into it, it does not reset the outlet. So I believe the threshold the seat outlets will support is in the 70 to 80 watt range.
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