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Is this safe?

Dervious said:
12 volts ?

Try half a volt.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXEPy6Za6cI
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Yeah tell me about it. I shorted out a 18650 battery on my house keys in my pocket.

only 3.7v but 30 amps but my keys got so hot they burnt a hole through my jacket pocket and started burning my trousers before I felt it.

I quickly pulled off my jacket and by then it was in flames. :eek:

Its not the volts that kill you but the amps..............
 
Telecaster said:
My guess would be that any exposed components that have been left like that have been risk assessed, the pins in the PCIe socket have been covered over with a plastic plug housing for a reason, otherwise they'd have left them exposed as well.
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Surely they put the plastic housing around those pins to actually, you know like, to hold whatever is plugged into them?
 
melmac said:
Surely they put the plastic housing around those pins to actually, you know like, to hold whatever is plugged into them?
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Correct. And with modern gfx cards weighing a kilo, motherbaord manufacturers are strengthening the slots and armour plating them to hold the weight!
 
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