Re: Are chips ... electronics runs on magic smoke??

On 6/21/2026 6:34 PM, Paul wrote:
> 
> There was one report on USENET, of an ATX supply, where a live
> flame shot out of the fan hole on the back of the ATX supply
> (the supply was running of course and the fan spinning). If
> the computer had been near curtains on that particular day, it
> could have lit the curtains on fire. For the most part, other
> ATX supplies do not fail exactly that way, so that one is an
> "anomaly".

Those are real, non-magical smoke, NOT "magic smnoke", as mentioned by 
"Jeroen Belleman"! :)

> So if I tell you "don't put the back of your PC against the curtains",
> that is the incident I am referring to.
To be correct, do NOT block exhaust vent or the chimney of anything 
burning or heating up!! :)

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