On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 10:30 +0000, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 21/01/18 13:51, Huge wrote:
I've just bought an HP Procurve Switch 1700-8 (J9079A) switch online
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Anyone know where I can get a power supply for one of these? The vendor doesn't have one, and I don't want to send the switch back until I've exhausted all avenues, since it's my fault.
I don't suppose this will help but I suspect that it requires a specialised PSU like my laptop does. My laptop has the extra pin in the middle, & I suspect it's a data line to tell the laptop the capabilities of the PSU. There must be some "magic" like that as my laptop knows things about the PSU, like its rating etc so they must be communicating somehow.
I'd suggest finding/downloading a manual and looking for the PSU part number and then hunting one down.
Not really very helpful I'm afraid.
Actually, exceedingly helpful. Just not very timely! :o)
Someone elsewhere told me the part number of the real power supply (HP-5188-6700) and using that I found a clone on eBay, which I have ordered.
Thanks very much all the same!!
Regards,
Hugh.