In article , Andrew
wrote:
On 14/12/2020 14:43, charles wrote:
In article , Tim Streater
wrote:
On 14 Dec 2020 at 12:56:18 GMT, charles
wrote:

In article , jon wrote:

This is a so-called refurbished Dell Latitude E6430 Laptop from
Amazon with a badly burnt Motherboard. It looks as if someone has
put a metallic object into the docking connector and melted the
dual P channel Mosfet PQ1303.

https://ibb.co/HXqVtzt

Years ago, I recall someone at TV Centre, plugging a mains live
connector into the video input of a TV monitor. After the first
monitor failed, he tried with two morem before somebody stopped him.

Plug compatible, was it?

The plug to the monitor was right - but the other end of the cable had
managed to get into an open mains socket. This was before the days of
shutter sockets everywhere


How do you get coax cable into a mains socket though, shuttered or not ?.

The connector was one we called F&E. Centre conductor could stand well
proud of the outer ring.

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