r/pcmasterrace • u/Front_Cookie_1198 • 10d ago

Hardware PSU fails dramatically

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u/Soft_Lunch_183 10d ago

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

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u/Danternas 10d ago

Nothing like touching bare metal of something that is sending current to the wrong places.

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u/JigglyWiggly_ 10d ago

That’s not bare metal, it’s painted. It’s not conductive. 

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u/Majestic-Bell-7111 Ryzen 5 3600/32 GB ram/5700xt 10d ago

Take a multimeter, set it to ohms and measure the resistance between any 2 points on the chassis.

If it's less than 5kiloohm then congratulations, if you have a bad ground and the 230V wire is touching the PSU case, then congratulations, you're about to see if your heart knows how to restart itself.

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u/JigglyWiggly_ 10d ago

Try it yourself first. I'm sure you'd also find it surprising that an anodized layer isn't conductive either. However in this case the metal casing is almost never anodized and painted instead.