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Fried Voltage Regulator
By jykwan | September 5, 2009
Why, i was so lucky that i got screwed by my parents cause i indirectly almost set the house on fire. Well I bought a Power Logic Voltage Regulator to power and protect my PC. Since where i stay is an old place and power voltage is not that stable because power sometimes goes on and off for a split second. Example: my room lights flicker but my PC still runs or my PC just looses power while my lights are still on. The power regulator is supposed to help protect from power surges as well as thunder storms are quite common around here. But i guess its about time its life span has timed up and when things get faulty, its not good. Used it for about 2 and a half years now. I was not around when in happened, but lucky my parents were, and by the time they found out, my room was full of smoked…. so when i came back i got it really hard from them. Why was it on? well torrenting is not a 1 hour or 2 hour job…. that should explain.
Here is what it looked like…. well……. not bragging……. just sharing experience…
The overall view
Slightly zoomed in
i have no idea what was that under it, but i bet it gave out alot of heat to melt the plastic
Boy, now i’m scared of voltage regulators…. just bought a BELKIN 6 socket surge master for RM130 to replace it…. BELKIN had better work as what it claimed… dun wanna start a fire now, do we?
Topics: As my day goes by, Computer Stuff | 1 Comment »
September 8th, 2009 at 1:09 am
things jz go off like that at the time when u’re broke eh?there goes RM130~
same goes to my camera bag~ =.=” received ‘his resignation letter’ today~