Re: Forget viruses, look out for ants in your motherboard!
Yeppers, insects don't do well with voltage, especially the primary side of a P/S. The attraction? Dark, confined, warm --- feels like safety ... until it feels, briefly, electrifying.
PeteS in CA
Power Supplies should be boring: No loud noises, no bright flashes, and no bad smells.
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Re: Forget viruses, look out for ants in your motherboard!
ants in general like electrical stuff.i have replaced lots of burned up contactors in hvac applications outdoors due to being full of ants.so nothing new here..
ants in general like electrical stuff.i have replaced lots of burned up contactors in hvac applications outdoors due to being full of ants.so nothing new here..
I've seen a bit of that as well in outdoor HVAC stuff as well.
Re: Forget viruses, look out for ants in your motherboard!
i forgot about viruses a long time ago.....suse/RHEL/clearOS/debian/fedora/freeBSD/ghostBSD
now ants poping things is not anything new, i have seen ants pop HID lamps,sprinkler timers,aircons, tornado sirens (yes tornado siren),etc.
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