Solid caps can blow up?...

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On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 19:22:24 +0100, Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> wrote:

Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2022, um 04:14:44 Uhr schrieb New Me:

I wash my desktop\'s motherboard with water every 12 months and there
is no malfunction after cleaning and drying it throughly.

Drying is the relevant part. Without water there can\'t be conductivity.
With water and minerals inside there is, but the resistance is high.

Machine is still as fast as it was when I bought it 5 years ago.

It will not change the speed in any way, the clocks will they the same.

Dust insulates heat limits clock speed to avoid burnout. I just blew dust off my Radeon Fury and it\'s speed increased by one seventh.
 
On Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:19:45 +0100, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

On 8/9/2022 9:07 AM, Mayayana wrote:
\"Paul\" <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote

| > https://imgur.com/jYet0zF
|

Here\'s the real link without the imgur BS:
https://i.imgur.com/jYet0zF.jpg

I once had a case where one of those blew up.
I was putting in a CD player. Apparently there was
a short somewhere inside the player. I smelled electrical
fire, but before I could do anything it blew up, taking
all the components f the computer with it. Everything
got fried.

That could be a +5V shorted to +12V fault. I could
see that blowing all the +5V logic.

Shouldn\'t a decent PSU see the 5V being pushed up and shut everything off quick smart? Or maybe it\'s not that common a fault.
 
On Tue, 04 Oct 2022 21:24:07 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
<CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:19:45 +0100, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

On 8/9/2022 9:07 AM, Mayayana wrote:
\"Paul\" <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote

| > https://imgur.com/jYet0zF
|

Here\'s the real link without the imgur BS:
https://i.imgur.com/jYet0zF.jpg

I once had a case where one of those blew up.
I was putting in a CD player. Apparently there was
a short somewhere inside the player. I smelled electrical
fire, but before I could do anything it blew up, taking
all the components f the computer with it. Everything
got fried.

That could be a +5V shorted to +12V fault. I could
see that blowing all the +5V logic.

Shouldn\'t a decent PSU see the 5V being pushed up and shut everything off quick smart? Or maybe it\'s not that common a fault.

Some of the early Xerox copiers had a flame detector and a fire
extinguisher inside.
 
On Wed, 05 Oct 2022 03:16:12 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Tue, 04 Oct 2022 21:24:07 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:19:45 +0100, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

On 8/9/2022 9:07 AM, Mayayana wrote:
\"Paul\" <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote

| > https://imgur.com/jYet0zF
|

Here\'s the real link without the imgur BS:
https://i.imgur.com/jYet0zF.jpg

I once had a case where one of those blew up.
I was putting in a CD player. Apparently there was
a short somewhere inside the player. I smelled electrical
fire, but before I could do anything it blew up, taking
all the components f the computer with it. Everything
got fried.

That could be a +5V shorted to +12V fault. I could
see that blowing all the +5V logic.

Shouldn\'t a decent PSU see the 5V being pushed up and shut everything off quick smart? Or maybe it\'s not that common a fault.

Some of the early Xerox copiers had a flame detector and a fire
extinguisher inside.

But they never solved the problem of the glass breaking when people photocopied their buttocks.

I never saw that happeneing at my work, but I have seen people photocopying blank paper. The reason? You had to pay for paper but the photocopying was free!
 
On Wed, 05 Oct 2022 12:32:08 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
<CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Wed, 05 Oct 2022 03:16:12 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Tue, 04 Oct 2022 21:24:07 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:19:45 +0100, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

On 8/9/2022 9:07 AM, Mayayana wrote:
\"Paul\" <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote

| > https://imgur.com/jYet0zF
|

Here\'s the real link without the imgur BS:
https://i.imgur.com/jYet0zF.jpg

I once had a case where one of those blew up.
I was putting in a CD player. Apparently there was
a short somewhere inside the player. I smelled electrical
fire, but before I could do anything it blew up, taking
all the components f the computer with it. Everything
got fried.

That could be a +5V shorted to +12V fault. I could
see that blowing all the +5V logic.

Shouldn\'t a decent PSU see the 5V being pushed up and shut everything off quick smart? Or maybe it\'s not that common a fault.

Some of the early Xerox copiers had a flame detector and a fire
extinguisher inside.

But they never solved the problem of the glass breaking when people photocopied their buttocks.

I never saw that happeneing at my work, but I have seen people photocopying blank paper. The reason? You had to pay for paper but the photocopying was free!

Your company charges employees for paper? Coin operated water
fountains? Electric meters per office?

We let people take reasonable quantities of anything, including parts.

We have a freezer full of TV dinners, and a fridge full of Lundt
chocolate truffles. And a nice stock of beer.

We also don\'t charge customers for reasonable spare parts.

All that makes people happy and is good business. Petty greed (like HP
toner prices and car parts marked up 30:1) drive customers away.
 
On Wed, 05 Oct 2022 16:41:08 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Wed, 05 Oct 2022 12:32:08 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Wed, 05 Oct 2022 03:16:12 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Tue, 04 Oct 2022 21:24:07 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:19:45 +0100, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

On 8/9/2022 9:07 AM, Mayayana wrote:
\"Paul\" <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote

| > https://imgur.com/jYet0zF
|

Here\'s the real link without the imgur BS:
https://i.imgur.com/jYet0zF.jpg

I once had a case where one of those blew up.
I was putting in a CD player. Apparently there was
a short somewhere inside the player. I smelled electrical
fire, but before I could do anything it blew up, taking
all the components f the computer with it. Everything
got fried.

That could be a +5V shorted to +12V fault. I could
see that blowing all the +5V logic.

Shouldn\'t a decent PSU see the 5V being pushed up and shut everything off quick smart? Or maybe it\'s not that common a fault.

Some of the early Xerox copiers had a flame detector and a fire
extinguisher inside.

But they never solved the problem of the glass breaking when people photocopied their buttocks.

I never saw that happeneing at my work, but I have seen people photocopying blank paper. The reason? You had to pay for paper but the photocopying was free!

Your company charges employees for paper? Coin operated water
fountains? Electric meters per office?

No, they didn\'t charge employees, they charged departments.

> We let people take reasonable quantities of anything, including parts.

So did I, but some didn\'t.

We have a freezer full of TV dinners, and a fridge full of Lundt
chocolate truffles. And a nice stock of beer.

I don\'t think many companies even allow beer, let alone give it away free!

We also don\'t charge customers for reasonable spare parts.

All that makes people happy and is good business. Petty greed (like HP
toner prices and car parts marked up 30:1) drive customers away.

Agreed, I was charged £160 for just the part before labour for a brake caliper I ended up buying for £30 online including postage from Eurocarparts. The same make! That garage isn\'t where I go anymore. And they\'re in shit from the DVLA for something else they tried to do to me - \"your [just replaced elsewhere] handbrake is hardly working at all sir\", when I could cause it to lock the wheels going at 30mph, and prevent the engine from turning those wheels from a standstill.
 

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