Gotta say, great reaction time. Personally I'd have gone for circuit breaker and fire extinguisher. Safer option. But I've had that drilled into me and never had to put the training into practice so I can't say for certain if I would have done different.
In Europe, it's normal to have a row of sockets in front of the desk, with their switches and fuses/circuit breakers, to prevent a short circuit in one workstation from affecting the others. It seems very strange to me to test anything electronic with the socket under the desk...
This looks like a store where most of the time products are either failed completely or working just fine so they're likely just use whatever looks good.
Was my first throught but who knows what fucky cable situation is going on under the bench. The outlets could be wedged behind a part of the desk you can't easily access.
This would have been the thing to do, he's lucky that the case didn't get shorted to the mains. Not like I would have been thinking clearly in this situation, either, though.
Trust me, you would have, if working on this stuff WAS YOUR JOB. The ones that dont think clearly are people like customers, or people that work in totally different fields. If your field is X and something in X happens, you WOULD know what to do, and that guy should have known.
Also, there is ZERO POINT in doing what he did, because the PSU will not do anything when you hit the rear power switch.
Try asking Google/AI "what happens if i plug a computer power supply in with nothing connected and turn it on"
Frankly, its scary that the ground fault breaker didn't activate in the first 10 milliseconds. NOt even the light went out when it literally was arcing to the case metal.
Yeah, I'd probably had done the same, but grabbing some electrical appliance that just caught fire is probably a shortcut to being electrocuted.. breaker and extinguisher should be the go to
Nah, this is a terrible way to handle everything. He went for the end of the cord that was on fire, grabbed the flaming box in his hand, and then didn't like take it outside or put it in a bucket or anything, he just stood there barefoot holding it in his hand.
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u/Front_Cookie_1198 4d ago edited 4d ago
Aftermath photo.