cockroach+psu=BANG!

[kc8adu]

note the big splatter in the second pic.
gonna be interesting to hear customers response when i tell him a roach killed the computer!

[tiresias]

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Fantastic find kc8!
I never would have guessed cockroaches were so conductive...
Would be interesting do some controlled experiments with a roach, a PSU and an ammeter!

[arneson]

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I want to nuke the little bastards,
oh yeh, that doesn't work.

[PeteS in CA]

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I liked the ones I saw on several returned Deltas, where the roach or parts thereof was fried onto the bottom of the PCB.

[jonnyGURU]

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It's so scary that this happens so often.

Did you know that roaches will EAT the insulation off of wiring?!?!?

That's insane!

I knew a guy that repaired TV's and restored old tube radios and he would see chewed up wiring and exploded roaches everywhere!

[japlytic]

Re: cockroach+psu=BANG!

I've seen something similar in Silicon Chip magazine (Serviceman's Log).

[kc8adu]

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I want to nuke the little bastards,
oh yeh, that doesn't work.

i watched one run in circles in a nuker for about 10 minutes before he died.
and it was a 1500w amana....

[MD Willington]

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My son loves the hissing roaches, I've held them in my hand before.. lol..

[Oklahoma Wolf]

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i watched one run in circles in a nuker for about 10 minutes before he died.
and it was a 1500w amana....

You just reminded me of an old episode of The Critic:

"The only good thing about that movie was the edible chocolate roaches that came with it. Mm mm. Delicious! Wait a second... edible roaches don't crawl. Edible roaches don't craaaaaaaaaawl!"

[zepper]

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The big Florida roaches have a lot of water in them - they explode nicely. But do it in someone else's microwave, so you don't have to clean up after...

.bh.

[kc8adu]

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they call those palmetto bugs.still a giant flying roach.hit one on i75 in florida a few years back.
smashed the windshield on my goldwing and splattered all over the faceshield on my fullface helmet.