{"id":710,"date":"2010-10-16T11:57:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T11:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/?p=710"},"modified":"2010-10-16T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T12:03:11","slug":"fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Fire!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I noticed the characteristic smell of popped capacitors. I took the side off my case and noticed a couple of the caps were bulging. Because I am leaving in a couple months anyway, I thought &#8220;meh&#8221; as it should survive till I leave. I took the side off to keep an eye on the caps to see if more will pop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fire2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-712\" title=\"fire2\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fire2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fire2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fire2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fire2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I came into the office and noticed the computer was off. Confused, I turned it on and walked away to hang up me fleece turned around to find blooms of smoke spewing from the machine. I ran over to find flames inside the machine. Panicking, I unplugged it and started blowing out the flames. Luckily that worked and I didn&#8217;t have to email the emergency services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fire1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-711\" title=\"fire1\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fire1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fire1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fire1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fire1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It all seems to be concentrated around an inductor, although I suspect one of the caps popped its bottom cover and started spewing hydrogen.<\/p>\n<p>So the first task of the day was to do through the purchase order process to get a replacement motherboard, although the case is also somewhat smoke damaged too. The office also smells really bad of caustic fumes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fire3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-713\" title=\"fire3\" src=\"http:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fire3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fire3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fire3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fire3.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I noticed the characteristic smell of popped capacitors. I took the side off my case and noticed a couple of the caps were bulging. Because I am leaving in a couple months anyway, I thought &#8220;meh&#8221; as it should survive till I leave. I took the side off to keep an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brej.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}