Warning, Don't lick the PSU - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 14, 2013, 07:21:30 pm
content: This was a picture I took some years ago. It was on a power distribution board connected to a 1000 Watt PSU in a Quantum 3D AAlchemy 3D Image Generator. (Basically a rack mount computer with multiple 3DFX video cards linked together)

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 15, 2013, 12:34:53 pm
content: I'll stop licking PCBs when they stop making them taste so damn good.

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 15, 2013, 12:41:10 pm
content: ISTR reading a warning in the manual for a laptop not to eat the stuff that might leak out of the LCD if you broke it...

author: MasterOfNone
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 15, 2013, 01:30:23 pm
content: This all seems reasonable to me.Without the licking warning, just imagine what could happen if an engineer was told to lick that system into shape as quickly as possible.And without the LCD warning just imaging what could happen if someone was told 'your going to eat them words'.Now the manufacturers don’t want to be sued because of a misunderstanding

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 15, 2013, 01:35:16 pm
content: If anyone thinks that is weird:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2340988/The-EYEBALL-LICKING-craze-thats-sweeping-Japan-causing-surge-eye-infections.htmlLike, WTF?Glad I finished my dinner 3 hours ago.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 15, 2013, 01:59:25 pm
content: You had me at eyeball chlamydia.

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 15, 2013, 02:11:18 pm
content: Dear customer!We are very sorry to tell you that we couldn't process your order of FR4 due to the missing specification of the flavour wished. Please select one of the following flavours:- lemon- diet soda- smoked ham- coffee (with caffeine optionally)- curry- hot chily- beerIf you need any assistance please don't hesitate and call 0800 LEMONFR4.Sincerely,Sales Support

author: MasterOfNone
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 15, 2013, 02:24:58 pm
content: Quote from: MasterOfNone on June 15, 2013, 01:30:23 pmQuote from: GK on June 15, 2013, 01:35:16 pmMaybe someone should produce an app for phones that displays and Eyeball. The phone would be placed next to the face and licked instead of the real eye-ball.The touch sensitive screen could be used to score the eye-ball licking rather than depending on the real sensation of the tongue licking the eye.The app could be called Eye-Pad because it Pads (and protects) the eye from potential infections.Edit: My joke might have been a little better if I quoted the right post. Then again maybe not.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 15, 2013, 02:37:06 pm
content: There must be some very strange people about

author: digsys
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 15, 2013, 02:42:16 pm
content: Quote from: TelequipmentThat's what happens when you don't let "natural selection" do its job !

author: bitwelder
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 16, 2013, 07:04:18 am
content: Quantum3D legal dept:Quantum3D engineering dept:

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 16, 2013, 07:52:42 am
content: Either that or they just hated the Rolling Stones.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 16, 2013, 07:54:52 am
content: Actually I think they ripped that off!

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 16, 2013, 07:57:11 am
content: I say hey! Hey! Green solder mask! Why do you taste so fine! O0

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 16, 2013, 08:38:48 am
content: That notice must surely have been put there as a joke, otherwise it would have warned of death or electrocution and not damage to the taste buds.

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 16, 2013, 10:04:30 am
content: That looks like a 12V output so the hazard probably isn't as great.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 16, 2013, 06:36:10 pm
content: This is the best picture I could find of itYes it connected to a custom power supply that had an ATX cable along with some thicker wiring going to this board for the high amperage +5 and +12 areas for the video cards.The cards interfaced with a board like this. This is just a single card configuration, we had dual cards, but you could go up to 4.