An angled cable adapter from CableMod has precipitated around $75,000 in harm in around 270 situations in the United States by myself. Following the manufacturer’s voluntary take, the US authority “U.S. Particular person Product Safety Payment (CPSC)” has now additionally responded by officially recalling the inch.
Customers are requested to abolish the adapter and upload a picture of the destroyed product to the take page.
U.S. Particular person Product Safety Payment (“CPSC”)
This step became as soon as well-known since the angled adapter from CableMod with the title “12VHPWR-Adapter” tends to burn or even burn out fully. This naturally creates a fireplace hazard. Satirically, CableMod created and closely promoted the angled adapter following initial experiences of melting RTX 4090 connectors, which agree with since tapered off and by no way been area to a take. Recent revisions to the 12VHPWR spec toughen how the connector clamps to your GPU’s energy slot.
The usage of CableMod’s adapter ought to be discontinued genuine now, as the US safety authority launched in its take.
In the wording: “Customers must soundless genuine now stop the usage of the recalled angle adapters and focus on to CableMod for instructions on the model to safely get their adapter from the GPU and for a full refund, including shipping charges, or a $60 credit ranking for non-personalized merchandise with free common shipping. Customers are requested to abolish the adapter and upload a picture of the destroyed product to https://cablemod.com/adapterrecall/. Instructions on the model to safely get the adapter can additionally be chanced on on this web way. After destruction, consumers must soundless earn rid of the adapter per native regulations.”
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The adapters were equipped by CableMod between February and December 2023, after which the sale of the adapter became as soon as voluntarily stopped. Several variants of the adapter are affected, which were additionally on hand to obtain in rather heaps of colours.
Besides to the process for recalling the adapter, CableMod has additionally equipped a video that reveals the model to properly abolish the angled “12VHPWR adapter” and render it unusable. A rather heaps of contact manufacture is additionally on hand for affected prospects.
This text became as soon as translated from German to English and originally appeared on pcwelt.de.
