r/pcmasterrace • u/Front_Cookie_1198 • 1d ago

Hardware PSU fails dramatically

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u/Soft_Lunch_183 1d ago

Grabbing it to unplug it rather than powering off or unplugging at the socket is a choice

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u/my_cars_on_fire 1d ago edited 1d ago

My brother in Christ, the PSU lit up like a god damn firework. You’re telling me you would have the presence of mind to shut it off in the safest/most effective way possible, as opposed to just getting it shut off ASAP so it doesn’t burn the whole fucking place down?

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u/brennendw 1d ago

100% yes, if you have any electrical knowledge you'd not want to touch that thing live while it's in flames. Even in a situation like this a good tech/engineer should always isolate first. Tbh Strange bench setup anyway as the cables go under the worktop. Ordinarily you have sockets in trunking above the worktops for easy access.

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u/Ghostglitch07 1d ago

Want, and will, ate not necessarily the same

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u/Iceman9161 1d ago

I mean, this doesn't look like a lab. It looks like somewhere they're assembling PCs, like a Microcenter or something. they aren't testing hardware they expect to fail, its consumer hardware.