> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Kyrre Aalerud wrote:
>
> *>Yes they do run while I sleep, and I sleep in the same room.
> *>I wish for grounding in this room, but it's expensive to alter existing
> *>installments.
>
> FYI a perfectly grounded computer once tried to kill me by asphyxiation. A
> filter cap in the ripple pi filter of the psu went and the fans blew all

During my college days I built my first computer: a 6502 with (eventually)
18k RAM and a 100k 8" floppy drive.

Unfortunately my power-supply design skills, to put it bluntly, sucked.

I used the largest cap I could get: a *large* electrolytic (about twice
the dimensions of a 12oz soda can).

One evening the sucker exploded.

The *entire* house heard it, and my roommate was afraid to come anywhere
near my computer ever again. I couldn't hear right for a week.

On the positive side, the wooden case I built for it contained the damage,
and with the help of a friend who was good at power supplies, the computer
was running again in a few days!
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D. Jay Newman           !  I can bring whole cities to ruin,
jay@sprucegrove.com     !    And still have time to get a soft-shoe in...
http://enerd.ws/        !      -- from Buffy, "Once More with Feeling"

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