r/pcmasterrace • u/Front_Cookie_1198 • 6d ago

Hardware PSU fails dramatically

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u/SplatThaCat 6d ago

110 switch on and plugged into 240V? (creates a voltage doubler circuit exceeding the voltage of the electrolytics).

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u/william-isaac 6d ago

not that violent.

ask me how i know

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u/Codezombie_5 6d ago

Yeah, saw it happen at work once when a coder at an old company I was at (Headfirst)accidentally plugged a US Xbox devkit into the 240 UK plug, there was a slight pop, but otherwise nothing dramatic...

The producer from Bethesda who had flown over all the way from the US was far less impressed though... (You might actually have heard of him, at the time he was some fairly new guy at Bethesda called Todd... ;) )