Mysterious Blue Smoke
As Adam Savage says:
“…when you see the mysterious blue smoke, electronics don’t work any more.”
Curiously, it also smelled like TCP.
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Or as CC put it in my electronic lessons, “I love the smell of burning silicone in the mornings”
Did a cat yak up a furball on your motherboard, or something?!?!?
Just remember….Any one can let the out the magic smoke…..But a professional can put it back in (or at least make it look that way to the end user).
First time I heard the blue smoke theory, it was “Electronics are powered by blue smoke. When the smoke escapes, nothing works anymore.”
from an English chap I was working with 10 years ago.
@ Gerrard Sweeny
Looks like a capacitor exploded.
Methinks as a result of The Smoke escaping from the device on its left. Must have made a good popping noise when it went.
You get to see some interesting things, Mr. Technician. I’m glad I found your site / blog. Cheers!
Cool!! Worst capacitor’s i have seen have been slightly bulging. never actually seen one burst though!
I agree with Ivaarsen, you get to see the strangest of things!!
Would this happen to be a KVM type switch / monitor switch for a projector or somthing along those lines?
Close – it’s a VGA splitter, simply duplicates the image on both the monitor and the projector. They are all shonky pieces of junk, and I am slowly replacing them with computers that have proper dual monitor outputs.
Capacitor says no ;)