Boom! said the misplaced capacitor -_-

[TooGoldForThisShit]

nothing better than an explosion in the morning!

Although i will say, not too smart leaving it switched on while it burns lol

5 stars.

[PoweredByNamahage]

HEC PSU?

[336Torana]

i waited 2 years to get my younger bro to finally start putting my pc back together, and this happened right next to his face when he switched it on with the new power supply for the first time! big orange ball of death came out of it too! awesome!

[tangypasta]

I switched voltage of my psu from 220v to 110v. there was a boom and a flash of light, then my computer didnt boot. (the psu was connected). Would my whole system be fried or just the psu? I had a look at the psu in the inside and it looked ok (A brief look, i didnt remove the panels). It was stupid, dont ask me why :P

[hobstad]

hmpf, begin with buying a new psu, it's the first step... and that'll provide with an answer for the rest of the computer...

[ubuntututorials]

Usually the over-voltage protection (on the output only, not on the input) would have saved the PC... but don't count on it, cheaper PSUs omit this.

[SephirothxAnge]

same thing mouhahaha : BOOOOOOOOM ! OMG ^^"... my ears !!!!! I A little continous biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip in my ears during several hours (a funny experience...) => why my computer didn't boot... ? lol

[ionaustin]

i had two power supplys explode do something smart and buy a surge protecter :/

[80stvfan09]

We had a comp come in for service to get the hard drive formatted but we were greeted by THIS, took out the whole mobo and hard drive/cdrom, RAM all of it. but, it NEVER got the fuse. why on earth is the fuse there for anyway?

[hobstad]

To fight unemployment :-)

[tippete123]

think that happening in his computer

lololol

[thegreatkoua]

that poor thing with the sad music too so sad

[gtapro151]

lol funny man i did the same but the smoke shit stinks

[hobstad]

yeah careful, seems it's kind of toxic fumes.

Saw a tv report about indian guys sniffing fumes from burning computer waste to identify whether it's recyclable or not... creepy :(

[gtapro151]

yea i dont do dat no more lol it smelled to bad....

[djtom74]

and the protect and the disjoncteur ... idiot...

[Redux47]

Why did you leave the power on it after it blew up, just looking for more trouble?

[NTComputer86]

maybe i should avoid using these for xbox brick substitutes, lol that was awesome

[tsolorio3001]

There are safer ways to build a camp fire :P :) Just kidding. :D

[hobstad]

Haha yeah :-)

[bihohran]

thank god when i tried to fix mine this didnt happen mine only made a lil boom sound but dam you got owned xd

[sciencoking]

>.>

[Nby21Blog]

imagine that happening in your pc XD

[191191119]

yah it scares the fuck out of you

[JSmithv099]

where is the fuse protection?

[Paxmax]

LOL! nice fireworks!

[DeadHand1992]

LOOOOOOOOL

[mikeshin0bi]

ya u put it in the wrong way thats y it went boom

[awsomeshot]

mine did that while it was still in my damn computer... imagine that...

[hendrikhelweg]

lol

[mikedae]

what is the name of the track with the violin? thx

[hobstad]

Ah, I can't tell, it was taken from a powerpoint... Let me know your email by pm if you'd like the mp3

cheers

[patrickikis]

hurray!

[javier7high]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

[mariosemnocao]

Oh yeah, I can see the fire!!!!

[ThatBum5]

Oohh...the sad violin music made my cry. :(

RIP power supply...

[torque395]

lmao

[junior7337]

caboom!!!

i love this video!!it´s wonderful

[Erzahler]

Had that happen to me once when I was repairing a shortwave receiver. I inadvertently hooked up a filter cap backwards. As soon as I turned the thing on, BANG!!! Fortunately I lost only the cap and a couple diodes. Sounded like an M-80 going off though, scared the you-know-what out of me!!

[rawtorque]

At one place I worked, my coworker was having trouble with a unit. He tried a new board in it, but a tantalum cap on the board exploded REAL loudly.

[cardboardsnail]

o_O

Now I'm scared of recapping my mobo lol

[slaterking1000]

brick*

[slaterking1000]

i did that at school, teacher shit a break.

[rawtorque]

A guy at high school used a 600V power supply on a 32V paper cap! Bits of paper & foil went everywhere...

[gamerboi777]

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[logischdede]

that thing had power, now its trash.

[cheetawolf]

mini nuke LOL

[ThatFlipKidxD]

Closest I got to that is a smoking PSU :(

[m1dget]

O_O

OMG.. is that happens in my rig I'm going to be hysterical :S

[steviebboy69]

kind of funny , i had an old set top box(digital tv thingy from a friend) it stopped working.

i put metho on it and lit it on fire, and after about a min there was fire works type cracks. most likely the caps exploding, and about 5 secs after the bangs i could hear them landing on the roof of the house, the carport roof and the shed. i would say the blown off end cap of them.

pity my cam wasnt charged up.

next dooor neigbors didnt hear it i guess

[baddspella]

hahah that was grate, at school, i get the capacitors and put them the rong was, and i put about 36V and they smoke, and go POP!

[slaterking1000]

coulld be the full 240v

[myx1997]

wow so that's why my dad says they're dangerous and they store power and immediently release it... shocking

[wolfakula]

i rekon it was faked, when ever ive blown caps they've taken more time to go, not just instantly

[hobstad]

experienced you haven't enough, young padawan. Keep practising.

[myx1997]

probably it's full, try shorting a 9-V battery with a 6200 ohm ¼ watt resistor (blue,red,red,gold) first, it looks ok then it smokes then you see it smoking, it's hot. but dosent explode or hot enough to melt soldering wire

[kylesmith29]

It was connected to at least 230 volts, 15 amps. a typical psu cap stores ~ 10- 20 joules, so it would overcharge in less than 1/100th of a second.

[grenouil1970]

???????

[DarkTrinityX1]

Did you just put the capacitor in the wrong way?

[davidbball13]

and for it to explode it has to be over its rated voltage

[therealromster]

My guess is the switch for 110 volts was set and 240 was applied which would put 340 volts dc across a 200 working volt cap.

[Stevenup7004]

Umm, you might wanna pull the plug out XD

[PhuckHue]

you did it wrong. you were suppose to put the power supply in a bucket of gasoline THEN plug it in

[TheWellKnownNobody]

lmao! great, thanks alot! now i HAVE to do it, gosh, you see what you've done!? lol

[xsyar]

can you do it again while tapeing it to you crouch?

[HydroMofo]

yea do it

[slovakmath]

how much wil you give me?

[xsyar]

50.000 Volt?? ;)

[slovakmath]

OKAY, I'm in! where do we meet? Oh yeah, one thing I almost forgot... depending on if you are a guy or girl, I will let you give me mouth service on my rod to make it feel better before and after the test trial. If you are a guy, I most likely won't let you, unless you are really, REALLY good looking

[xsyar]

I can train you with a broom stick.. 2meter of candy.. btw.. your mother really like a2m..

[slovakmath]

lol

[bodybager]

"We blew that up."

"Nah, We blew that up GOOD!"

"We blew that up REAL GOOD!"

[Scitech101]

LOL. not only does it show electronics giving off sparks and exploding, but its also funny. (for some reason, i find "boom! said the misplaced capacitor" hystarical) Question, though. what was the 2nd explosion 00:19 from?

[hobstad]

oh hehe there was only one explosion, what you see happen twice is a "slow motion of the slow motion"...

[slovakmath]

hey, I thought the video was funny and entertaining, but just out of curiousity, what do you do for job, are you student or do you work, and what type of work do you do? if student, what do you study? I am just curious because I am math student and do the same type of mischief, are you also math student?

[Xtrmn8r123321]

The Heat sinc didn't work, LOL!

[cheddarbiskit1]

well trying and failing is better than just giving up to begin with.

[haxmuch]

french boy, your crazy.

[hobstad]

arrhh don't say that, not french *grunts*

[haxmuch]

Well your from europe, is it german?

[haxmuch]

Ahhh, belgium, i looked at your profile

[cotton509]

i would have left the case on to see how much damage there is

[santaclaws13]

oriental fireworks

[frostwow]

better luck next time

[haxerownsmopar]

lol last year in my gcse electronics class someone cut the mains cable with a stanly knife and that was a even bigger bang

the room was white for 10 seconds lol

[MrfixitRick]

I love it! The music is so appropriate as well!

[VideoJunkei]

+ goes to -, - goes to +, right? :*)

[cokodrilo]

pretty cool

[PYROSF]

cool!! was that SUPPOSED to happen?? lol

[Jonocheese]

Kewl vid

One of them shorted right infront of me before. Scared me half to death.

[soulsonic1978]

Good proof that when one of those stupid cheap computer switcher supplies fail, you should just throw it away... they can't be fixed.

[talldude6]

ah no that was because of incorrect power supply operating voltage... it would have been supplied with 220V and been switched onto the 110V setting

[BarneySaysHi]

Don't you think the other cap would have flown out then as well?

[talldude6]

no and you know why because they are wired in series not parallel so there was no more energy flowing through the other cap and so therfore it will not explode

[krunckperson]

hahahhahah

[BladeTrinida]

LOl You wanna touch it but you dont ...

[ventura002]

That is a very nice video! nice explosions!!

[hwahwa5]

wtf? why did u do that anyways?!

[hobstad]

ah! Why, it's DC wasn't that stable even at mid-charge. Then it failed and I improvised myself as Mr Fixit ^_^

It was doomed even before ;-)

[DrMario2007baka]

Yes, my dear, semiconductors are on fire - they'r effective in killing those rats, so be careful. It's also what could happens if you put too much bell and whistles in the computer - the cheap PSU dies fairly quickly, sometimes brutally.

[Chiltn]

wow, i'd be careful breathing in those fumes...i hope there aint any semiconductors cooking! those fumes'll mess you up something mental!

[TheRealmsOfGold]

Damn, there goes $35. Or whatever they're selling PSU's for these days. Next you should try upgrading a motherboard :-p

[fishstixman]

well theres your problem!

lol

[hellsmaw84]

try taking a lot of caps (big and small) out of thier boards, putting them into a plastic jar, and set it on fire. its fun to laugh at the blasts (till it gets to the big ones)

[Keego85]

poor

[hobstad]

explain yourself

[supressorgrid]

These must be the electrical components that the Federation uses on its star ships.

[socramer]

I'm going to try that one day. And I don't mean the mouth thing.

[hobstad]

Ah! It's gonna be hard to find someone ready to fancy filming his own interpretation of the 'mouth thing' n_n

[FuseBox80A]

Isn't the electricity just marvelous.

Try put the wire in your mouth and plug into mains, try what it tastes like.

[hobstad]

hmmm I suggest you show and we watch ... deal?

[Ovaldots]

I have a new power supply that I would like to fix. Please tell me how you did it so I can try with mine.

[FibonacciPrower]

I would LOVE to do that, but I doubt the guys at the lab would let me...

[xXxmidgexXx]

LOUD Explosion

[johndear18]

talk to me about a "LOUD Explosion" whin u try to charge a 400v 39000uF cap with the wrong charger and that made a BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM and a large fie

[LMF5000]

39,000 uF?? That's amazingly huge for electrolytic!

However, so called "supercapacitors" are available nowadays in capacitances of 2000 F or more (yes, two thousand FARADS, two kF, incredible as it may sound at first), but only up to approx. 2.6 volts.

Maybe some brave person should blow up one of those from behind a bulletproof shield!

[rhadamg]

uhauahau

nice!! i´ll try here too

[hobstad]

First time i saw one blow up was at electronics lab, the teacher showed us how good DC capacitors can explode on ~230...