In article ,
charles wrote:
In article , Tim Streater
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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

In the early days of TC, the mains would have been an EP4, the video an
EP3. Later mains a D&S, then Walsall gauge. Taking us up to about 40 years
ago. Zero idea what they'd use now - Powercon?

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