Originally Posted by
Sez_Who
Strange comment indeed. I fly the 738 often as a t-con. IME, sometimes the power works, sometimes not. If it doesn't work, some FA's will do a 'reset' after reaching 10,000 ft and sometimes that seems to jiggle something. BTW, it is not uncommon that it works in only one of the two seats. As often as not, I use the power from the other seat (after asking the pax, of course, and they do not want to use it) because theirs works, mine doesn't.
I've seen this occur when one outlet was reset by overcurrent and the auto reset mechanism was not working. Unfortunately I caused it myself once before realizing my laptop on high performance mode and with a battery in it that was not fully charged would trigger the outlet to turn off. Then I moved just the brick to the next outlet, got the blue light to indicate I had power, hooked it to my laptop, flipped the second outlet off. I moved back to the first outlet, nothing, finally figured out what was going on due to a thread on here about this issue, moved back to the second outlet again and that one the auto-reset was working so finally I was online.