My near death experience plugging a old pc in about 10 mins ago

sigma · 19 Jan 2011 at 19:10

Teknobry said:
A 960kv what?

I don't know of anything that makes use of 960,000 volts, lol.

I wish I could remember the exact number lol, maybe it was 960V? It was the basement feed to a manufacturing facility.

Begbie · 19 Jan 2011 at 19:46

I still remember a boy at college flicking that!

I was in stitches for the next 3 classes!

Street · 19 Jan 2011 at 19:55

My sister did this years ago with one of our PCs.. Apparently she was trying to save electricity by making the computer use less volts!

trigger-happy · 19 Jan 2011 at 19:58

Vinni3 @H|H said:
Nah, I don't think NORAD would have gotten involved. I think the
UNITED STATES CYBER COMMAND!!!1111 would have activated.

holy **** a army of nerds!

Blackhawk47 · 19 Jan 2011 at 20:17

I've been told by the ASHTAR GALACTIC COMMAND that they saw some brown bread from their spaceships...

Lunatic Dreyfus · 19 Jan 2011 at 20:36

You see, the mistake was fiddling around with this old PSU in the dark. With a light on you would have noticed the two different settings, one says 240v, the other 1.21 gigawatts.

You were lucky only to blow out most of your neighbourhoods electrics, you could have ended up back in 1955.

ZG002 · 19 Jan 2011 at 20:41

Dude... Where do you live? If what you say is true.. Your main incoming supply sounds broken.

IceShock · 19 Jan 2011 at 21:11

on the moors haha liturally got 1 street light outside i live that far out

Rameses · 19 Jan 2011 at 21:20

Biohazard said:
No man, FLAMES!

Explosions and birds falling out the skies!

4 foot flames yo!

Anyway I bet it woke you up haha. Scary when things like that happen!

lcg · 19 Jan 2011 at 21:31

I did this several years ago with my old Gateway PC. I'd taken out the RAM to have a look at the information printed on it. I put it back in and the computer wouldn't boot. I then fiddled around with everything, including the voltage switch. I thought I put it back in the correct position, but I hadn't. I turned it on and it made a loud pop and sparked, and a lot of smoke came out of the PSU

milkinc13 · 20 Jan 2011 at 21:01

rule 1, don't switch the red switch otherwise can have consiquences.
often funny and shocking to the person doing it

GreatAuk · 20 Jan 2011 at 21:07

"andy" said:
why ? if power was cut off so he didnt get a shock then everything worked perfect !

all he did is blew the PSU up

As well as the street lights going off according to op!

Hitman_Leon · 20 Jan 2011 at 21:20

Explosion, so big, you better run, the police will be raiding the house thinking you have been watching too much four lions.

On another note that popping noise and flash was the death of of an oap pc, now be a good chap and recycle remains.

Do you still have eyebrows?