Computer LED lights nearly burnt my house down

[glenimp617]

for anyone who bought the SMD5050 LED light strips off the bay, be warned. Mine have been great for the past month or so, until this morning.

Turned PC on and after literally three seconds, smoke was pouring out of the case. Thank god this didn't happen during the night, or when I was at work else the thing would have gone up in flames.

 

[Danthus]

Did you have to get the fire brigade out?

 

[glenimp617]

Did you have to get the fire brigade out?

Luckily I hit the psu switch before any flames came out. The office stinks

No damage to any other cables or components, thank god!

 

[muttclugg]

Pretty scary. I have them in my kitchen so would hope I don't have a repeat of this in there. Nearly 1700 units have been sold on eBay so I would hope we'd see some news if it was a common occurrence. Hope your incident was a one off.

 

[mrk]

Lights in cases? What is this 2007 all over again?

 

[darael]

Why are the scorch marks on the outside? Are you sure the cable wasn't resting on something else that was too hot?

 

[glenimp617]

Lights in cases? What is this 2007 all over again?

I know it's a bit naff, but I kinda liked it. My PC doesn't look right now without them.

 

[glenimp617]

Why are the scorch marks on the outside? Are you sure the cable wasn't resting on something else that was too hot?

Nope, the cables are all nicely tucked away around the back. There's absolutely nothing near them generating heat.

The funny thing is that the lights are always set to white. This morning when I powered on, they were in disco mode. I'm sure the control box just failed for some reason.

 

[glenimp617]

Pretty scary. I have them in my kitchen so would hope I don't have a repeat of this in there. Nearly 1700 units have been sold on eBay so I would hope we'd see some news if it was a common occurrence. Hope your incident was a one off.

I hope so!

 

[ShiWarrior]

sorry to hear about this

are they some sort of fakes from another manufacturer? cheap copies or something?

 

[glenimp617]

sorry to hear about this

are they some sort of fakes from another manufacturer? cheap copies or something?

God knows, the seller is the most popular one on there. Must just have a faulty one. It's been ok up until this morning.

 

[MagicBoy]

They didn't nearly burn your house down. Stop overreacting - they're low voltage.

240V maybe, the maximum of 12V found in a PC. No.

 

[glenimp617]

They didn't nearly burn your house down. Stop overreacting - they're low voltage.

240V maybe, the maximum of 12V found in a PC. No.

ah ok, I just figured with a melted cable and a ton of blue smoke it would have burst into flames if I'd have left it.

oh, and I'm allowed to overreact in GD

 

[ShiWarrior]

They didn't nearly burn your house down. Stop overreacting - they're low voltage.

240V maybe, the maximum of 12V found in a PC. No.

so if he was at work all day, and it did catch fire, then just maybe, it might have done

 

[Danthus]

so if he was at work all day, and it did catch fire, then just maybe, it might have done

In a metal box?

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

I think you should plug it back in to find out, for science!

 

[glenimp617]

I think you should plug it back in to find out, for science!

it's in the bin

 

[Mynight]

In a metal box?

Metal is highly flammable. Don't buy into this whole safe nonsense.

 

[ShivP]

Hmm, I have these but a much larger control box, not one of those small one's;

Like this;

http://goo.gl/Ee3d8E

 

[Josh]

Thanks for the headsup man, was looking at these this morning for both my PC's.