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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on November 02, 2013, 02:10:27 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018509474
Oh my.
:jugs: :yahoo: (18,960 posts) Sat Nov 2, 2013, 02:26 PM
I dropped my computer on the floor
a laptop, and some of the keyboard bits broke off. Now it's emitting a gaseous odor, like from the stove.
BlueJazz (19,052 posts) Sat Nov 2, 2013, 02:30 PM
1. Probably burning Capacitors. I don't have to you ...that's not a good thing.
:jugs: :yahoo: (18,960 posts) Sat Nov 2, 2013, 02:32 PM
2. So what does that mean?
What's going to happen?
<<<am curious too.
What is it? What's going to happen?
And most importantly, is it going to imperil the jugs?
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Sounds OK to me. Keep using it jugs.
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Sounds OK to me. Keep using it jugs.
Soak it in vinegar first. :whistling:
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018509474
Oh my.
<<<am curious too.
What is it? What's going to happen?
And most importantly, is it going to imperil the jugs?
Sound like jugs is going to need a new computer. :lmao: Capacitors are more-or-less short term batteries. Voltage enters them, and then is released back out 'cleanly' - Imagine sticking a water spigot into a dam. The water will come out in a predictable, regulated stream. One of two things is going to happen to that laptop. Either the burning capacitor will burn itself disconnected, and stop the power flow altogether - or it will burn through the material inside that helps to regulate the flow of electricity, allowing 'dirty' power to flow through the laptop.
Either result is a death sentence for the laptop.
There is a slight possibility of it catching fire, but it is only slight as the plastic used is manufactured to be fire retardant.
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Sound like jugs is going to need a new computer. :lmao: Capacitors are more-or-less short term batteries. Voltage enters them, and then is released back out 'cleanly' - Imagine sticking a water spigot into a dam. The water will come out in a predictable, regulated stream. One of two things is going to happen to that laptop. Either the burning capacitor will burn itself disconnected, and stop the power flow altogether - or it will burn through the material inside that helps to regulate the flow of electricity, allowing 'dirty' power to flow through the laptop.
Either result is a death sentence for the laptop.
There is a slight possibility of it catching fire, but it is only slight as the plastic used is manufactured to be fire retardant.
Well, now I'm wondering why she dropped it in the first place.
Suppose she was drunk?
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It sounds safe enough for her to use while taking a bath.
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Well, now I'm wondering why she dropped it in the first place.
Suppose she was drunk?
Topheavy. Weebles Wobble, etc.
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Aren't all odor gaseous?
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Topheavy. Weebles Wobble, etc.
I'll bet she was drunk.
That type seems to be heavy tipplers.
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They also block DC, act with inductors as bandpass/block filters, etc...
Meh, keep using it, jugs. That gaseous odor won't be melting into your lap for a few hours at least.
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Maybe wishado will buy her a new one.
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Maybe wishado will buy her a new one.
Maybe she can flash her fellow DUmmies for a buck a shot.
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I'll bet she was drunk.
That type seems to be heavy tippttlers.
The devil made me do it.
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Sure, Alex. Blame the laptop.
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I'll bet she was drunk.
That type seems to be heavy tipplers.
There are worse things to drop be you sober as a judge.
Fear of dropping a baby or young child. Fear of dropping a baby pet, fear of dropping a $50.00 flask of fine wine. How about receiving a expensive perfume and having it fall and shatter.
Worse story I can think of was about a large family reunion and one of the members helping get grandma down the steps in a wheel chair some how dropped her and she died .
My worse story personally. We were in Hawaii and decided to take the kids to a beach that had about 60 stone steps to go down to the lagoon. Baby was 3 months old and in a stroller. I took the 2 others down and ex was in charge of the baby. We reached the bottom onto the beach and watched in horror as the EX slipped and lost the carriage and it cartwheeled over and over down a good 10+ feet.
Baby seemed fine, but you know I do wonder about the brain slaps given to a child that age. Is this the reason he grew up to become a Liberal ?
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It sounds safe enough for her to use while taking a bath.
Plugged-in, only.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018509474
Oh my.
<<<am curious too.
What is it? What's going to happen?
And most importantly, is it going to imperil the jugs?
All electronic equipment is powered by "magic smoke".
As long as the "magic smoke" stays inside the computer, all is well.
As soon as the "smoke" starts to leak out from all the vents and seams, game over, time to get a new one.
(Actually heard a sales tech in Radio Shack tell someone this one time. When does an electronic component stop working? When the smoke comes out of it! And yes, the tech was talking to a blond, democrat, Obama supporter from California.)
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^Good stuff !
I think she was drunky-poo, like Coach said.
But, then again she could have been baked, or both.
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^Good stuff !
I think she was drunky-poo, like Coach said.
But, then again she could have been baked, or both.
I'll bet she was sauced.
They're all like that.
<<<has never known a woman with big jugs to not be a drunkard.
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C'mon, people, don't you know that what you've been taught in Science classes all your lives is WRONG???
Light bulbs don't give off photons--they absorb darkons. That's why, for example, the ends of a fluorescent bulb are dark--cause that's where the most darkons are piling up. And when they're "burned out", they're just full of darkons.
Hey, we didn't call it Phy-SUCKS for nothing.
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Maybe wishado will buy her a new one.
Get her one of the Dells that smell like cat pee.
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C'mon, people, don't you know that what you've been taught in Science classes all your lives is WRONG???
Light bulbs don't give off photons--they absorb darkons. That's why, for example, the ends of a fluorescent bulb are dark--cause that's where the most darkons are piling up. And when they're "burned out", they're just full of darkons.
Hey, we didn't call it Phy-SUCKS for nothing.
The correct term for those, is "dark suckers".
On another note.
If :jugs: :yahoo: farts and there's no one around to smell it, does it still stink?
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On another note.
If :jugs: :yahoo: farts and there's no one around to smell it, does it still stink?
Maybe that's why her laptop is emitting a gaseous odor.
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How does PhDD post at DU if her keyboard is smoking? :???:
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How does PhDD post at DU if her keyboard is smoking? :???:
Remember, she enjoys a rather affluent life-style, better than what people who work in private enterprise (and hence who create wealth and pay taxes) have. I imagine she's probably got three or four computers at home, and this laptop one, and yet another laptop in her car.
And that doesn't include her access to computers at work.
She's hardly the hoi polloi.
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Remember, she enjoys a rather affluent life-style, better than what people who work in private enterprise (and hence who create wealth and pay taxes) have. I imagine she's probably got three or four computers at home, and this laptop one, and yet another laptop in her car.
And that doesn't include her access to computers at work.
She's hardly the hoi polloi.
Just one computer smokes and she complains. :mental:
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Just one computer smokes and she complains. :mental:
She probably whines more about having a single computer (out of many available to her) going klablooey than she whines about primitives starving because food stamps were cut.
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She probably whines more about having a single computer (out of many available to her) going klablooey than she whines about primitives starving because food stamps were cut.
She is something. :mental:
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She is something. :mental:
Now , now, we have to look at this from the view point of the Primitives.
Raised in security by parents that gave her everything she wanted. Never expected to help pull her weight for the family, just pampered like a favorite pet.
Education put in the hands of the schools, no real life interaction in how to grow up and take care of herself. So off to College at parents expense to major in square dancing and basket weaving. After 4 years and $120,000 dollars she has a degree in something.
Parents have paid for 3 abortions and bailed her thug boyfriends out of jail a couple times a year. Finally she meets a professional man that has his eye on the parents money and influence and parents have to dig deep for the wedding and honeymoon.
Off she goes to live with her husband in a upscale apartment that her parents pay the rent on. Less then 2 years later her husband finds a better mark and moves out. Parents pay for her divorce, and the therapy she needs due to booze and drugs.
She finds she cannot have children due to the number of abortions she had at an early age, and somewhere in here finds out she is a Lesbian.
Parents pass away and to her shock finds they have left her just enough money to survive on, rest goes to a no kill cat shelter.
Poor kid, now is not the time for her to worry about others surviving on food stamps.
So who is to blame in this tale of destruction, The girl herself or the parents that loved her so much they destroyed her ???
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Spoiling is not loving.
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I have a whole list of computer and electronic certifications so I thought it would be best if I chime in one this problem.
The best thing this primitive can do is remove the keyboard, most laptops now a days you can easily remove the keyboard, then lick any capacitors that are leaking or take some tap water dip her finger in it and try and clean them. This will only be effective if the computer is actually plugged in.
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I have a whole list of computer and electronic certifications so I thought it would be best if I chime in one this problem.
The best thing this primitive can do is remove the keyboard, most laptops now a days you can easily remove the keyboard, then lick any capacitors that are leaking or take some tap water dip her finger in it and try and clean them. This will only be effective if the computer is actually plugged in.
Do you recommend 220, or 440 ? Single or multiphase ?
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Do you recommend 220, or 440 ? Single or multiphase ?
I've got a ladder and an energized 345KV line she can latch onto.