[conspire] Fwd: Another motherboard was _not_ burned out today

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Mon Feb 16 18:38:26 PST 2015


Typo patrol:

> But there is much worse:  There were so many cases of sustained
> overvoltage causing MOVs to go into thermal runaway and literally catch
> fire that the National Fire Protection Association issued a series of
> warnings about them, and Underwriters Labs created the safety UL1449
> spec (3rd edition revision released in 2009) that MOV devices are now
> _supposed_ to meet but very often don't bother to meet -- on account of
> price pressure and buyers being obvious and not caring.
                                  ^^^^^^^
'oblivious'





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