{"id":282,"date":"2010-02-01T15:32:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2011-11-04T09:54:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T17:54:40","slug":"dont-use-coolmax-cd-350-combo-multifunctional-converter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Use Coolmax CD-350-COMBO Multifunctional Converter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">From reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Coolmax-15438-CD-350-COMBO-Multifunctional-Converter\/dp\/B000HZEX1K\">the reviews<\/a> of this product on Amazon I likely inserted the Molex connector in the wrong orientation into the converter. \u00a0Instead of the female-corded end being made of hard plastic, it&#8217;s made of soft rubber. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t even realize it was being inserted incorrectly because there was enough give in the connector to give the user a false sense of correct insertion. \u00a0Of course I can&#8217;t test my hypothesis as getting it wrong will result in another fried motherboard. Buyer beware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From reading the reviews of this product on Amazon I likely inserted the Molex connector in the wrong orientation into the converter. \u00a0Instead of the female-corded end being made of hard plastic, it&#8217;s made of soft rubber. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t even realize it was being inserted incorrectly because there was enough give in the connector to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/?p=282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t Use Coolmax CD-350-COMBO Multifunctional Converter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}