"Gareth Magennis" wrote in
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"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
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I'm still rather bemused that a bit of wine could short out
a 5V or so line and cause that amount of current to flow.

It might not have. It might have caused a chip to misbehave, which in
turned pulled the excessive current.



Hmm, this is interesting.

I have been assuming that the connector in the photos has a whole load
of data pins on the left hand side, and 2 heavier duty pins on the
right carrying the power supply. It looks to me that these two power
supply pins have been shorted, resulting in localised heating to the
point of partially melting the connectors. I have also assumed that
this huge increase in current is what killed the melted device that
was supplying that current.

I can't otherwise see a scenario whereby a faulty component could have
forced such a huge current between these two pins.


Gareth.




The water causes the chip to deliver the wrong, too high voltage,
processor and/or memory dies, and in doing that, draws excessive current,
melting the stabilizer chip.
No need for the water to carry lots of current.