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dave guest

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Well, just had to leave the computer. My wife was turning off TV, heard a big noise and smoke. TV off. She was holding her ears and said there is a high pitched noise. When I unplugged the TV, I could see red flashing inside and smoke. Setting outside now. Tomorrow we plug it in and see how far it will burn. Should have better safety factor than this. Nine year old Zenith. Suspect blown capacitor in power supply. Must stay on any time plugged in. Worked on TVs 20 years and never saw one go up in smoke. Always blew fuse or circuit breaker. This is interesting.
 
It probably listened to the news flowing through it, and realized it was obsolete as of next year. It took the route of self distruction so you would not be uncertain about buying a digital TV. Letting the smoke out slowly can be fun. JimN
 
Our new tv is an energy saver, so it completely shuts down. A little green lite flastes while it warms up. Probably 5-10 seconds. It's a Phillips
 
Our gubbermint wants everyone to switch to flourescent lights. A few weeks ago we had one of those curlyque table lamp ones do what your tv did. No one was in that room when it began frying. Wife happened to go there and found it crackling and smoking. If not turned off I wonder if it would have caught fire. Even airing out the house you could still smell it the next day.
 
I had one of those for a porch light. It quick coming on after about a year so I went to replace it. The base of it was discolored and looked burnt. It got replaced with a regular incandescent bulb.
 
About 15 years ago I had a computer monitor do the same thing. It gave out the death sqeal. then a pop and smoke came pouring out the top.

I told my boss it was do to all the work I was doing.
 
Rumor had it that old IBM CRT terminals (3270?) had a built-in fire extinguisher. Never knew if it was true or not, but always heard about it.

I think there are a lot of products that mysteriously catch fire. Until there gets to be a sizeable number of incidents, you really don't hear about them. Glad you caught it.
 
Any more of those lamps,could update my house if I left it on whilst shopping.better than setting fire to a rat.
 
Years ago (early 80's) we had a color tv that also caught fire. My grandfather (only one home at the time) was watching, then shut it off to go to bed. While in the bathroom, he heard something strange (he was very hard of hearing) and went to investigate. The tv was on fire, thick oily black smoke roiling out of it. So my 85 year-old grandfather picks up the set (a good size and rather heavy one for the time) and carries it out to the front closed-in porch, were a neighbor sees the conflagration and runs over w/fire extinguisher and puts it out. grandpa was just fine, no burns or anything. The house was quite another story. We had to stay in a motel for 2 weeks while the cleaning crew scrubbed every surface and everything in the entire house (except maybe the basement). Most of the closet doors had been open, so every garment in them was sent to the cleaners. I've never seen such a nasty mess as that black, oily grime covering everything.
 
(quoted from post at 06:30:31 06/23/08) Our gubbermint wants everyone to switch to flourescent lights. A few weeks ago we had one of those curlyque table lamp ones do what your tv did. No one was in that room when it began frying. Wife happened to go there and found it crackling and smoking. If not turned off I wonder if it would have caught fire. Even airing out the house you could still smell it the next day.
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Absolutely right. Check out this video. See what the tree huggers have forced upon us.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=e-LOtKIIKcg
 
Plugged in TV again. That fireworks was the swan song. Little more smoke and then nothing. Out to the road for last roundup.
 
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