Very alarming developments in the car adapter market. What a manufacturer listed in many chains does can only be described as mean computer sabotage.
| Notebook on passenger seat
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The elongated plug is bent upwards when the seats are held sideways. This means that the inferior plug is bound to fail soon.
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| Notebook in the footwell at the passenger
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The elongated inferior plug doesn't have a long chance of survival here either. The plug has to slow down the notebook at every faster turn.
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| Hama Car Adapter: Caution!
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Plugs that are not protected against polarity reversal. 5 out of 7 plugs are also of an elongated design, which have a high chance of breaking quickly when used in the car.
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| Car Adapter Tuning
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From Voltcraft there is a pack with angled plugs to the common not polarity-safe car adapters. Re-measure and then fix glue is highly recommended.
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| Digital voltmeter to measure car adapter
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Until there are reverse polarity protected car adapters, a voltmeter is essential to use to protect your valuable notebook from reverse polarity damage.
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