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Hi Rob,
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:35:02PM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Apparently he switched on his PC and it promptly blew a circuit
> breaker back at his house's distribution box! Now as I recall,
> P=IV. I=13 Amps, V=240 so unless his power supply is something like
> 3000 Watts (enough for a kettle or electric fire), there isn't much
> chance of the culprit being his PC. There isn't much else in the room
> (or on the circuit) he uses - nothing like a kettle or electric fire
> anyway!
>
> So I've suggested he:
>
> a) plugs a kettle into the same wall socket - to see if it trips the
> circuit breaker.
>
> b) moves the computer downstairs - to see if he can get it to work.
c) gets a new PSU for the computer?
> Any other obvious things I can try? Has anyone else had a situation
> where a PC has blown a domestic fuse?
One day my UPS shut itself down, and kept doing so every time I
turned it back on again. I eventually tracked it down to one
machine. I unplugged that machine from the UPS and plugged it
directly into a wallsocket, at which point there was a loud bang and
flames were observed coming out of the PSU. This also blew the
circuit breaker.
Amazingly the PSU itself was the only casualty.
Cheers,
Andy
