Breaking In a Power Supply (Overloading Electronics)

With a new power supply comes the tedious responsibility to ensure it's up to the job. In this situation you could:
1. Undertake the boring, ordinary approach to load testing it...
or b) Ditch that and go straight to destructive testing.
Not to the PSU, but to anything else lying around.
The logic behind the latter option is simple. If the power supply survives where everything else is destroyed, it passes the test.
In other words, grab a bunch of components and stick them on the output.
(Be aware, some employers may not approve of this methodology.)
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[@daylightbigboy]

Rated for 1 amp, so I'll use 5.

[@shouldiupload24]

lol

[@gummel82]

Streamlined Steamroller 5 of those amps haha

[@Samsung_Samuel]

Streamlined Steamroller hhhhh

[@TheeCK1357]

Zitronensaft a

[@ijuldzulfadli903]

Souds like "Look at this little rat in the sewer, lets kill it with an anti tank missile"

[@nexus1g]

Your dry sense of humor is godly.

[@jcke-2143]

nexus1g “bi color LED”

[@LexMc0606]

@@jcke-2143 "Bye!"

[@prometheus-ii7030]

I love how the little rectifier diode just sags, and Dan's response is just a disappointed little "Oh."

[@AAvfx]

I've heard many reports about batteries just firing up with no reason, causing massive disasters at home. It must be overloaded somehow, so the only guilt is to blame the transformer, I guess, or the cheap electronic circuits. Pay attention to what you buy, people.

[@vishwarao6064]

stfu im not gonna read that

[@account5980]

I have read all Pro

[@user-mr1nw1rb3k]

l01000

[@TheNamesArif]

shouldn't be that extreme surely. unless it's a 9v battery, lipo, li-ion or other high voltage battery

[@windowsxpthevyonder1517]

@@vishwarao6064 i woudnt risk that!

[@Yliannyx]

3:26 - *Disintegrated Circuit.

[@TristanSpeno]

2:14 me doing a test

[@kikoarts3d503]

Tristan Speno did you mean exam

[@TristanSpeno]

Yeah same thing

[@tjja7321]

Tristan Speno haha I clicked it at the same time so it skipped back a little.

[@sudo1972]

It´s a Degraded Circuit

[@ej_tech]

Bi color LED Bye!

[@bpmagruder]

I gotta admit though, that joke did kinda make me laugh!

[@SuperSoldicobra]

EJ Tech get it, because it's bi... yeah never mind...

[@khashmeshab]

Bye bi color LED!

[@kapiljhabak3513]

Hi

[@Hydr8Man]

Bi CoLoR LeD

[@WigWoo1]

Oh God imagine that smell

[@musteycraft9854]

A comment from 2020 from a video from 2015

[@KilljoyMaine]

@@musteycraft9854 🗿

[@musteycraft9854]

@@KilljoyMaine 🗿

[@KilljoyMaine]

@@musteycraft9854 it's stonks time

[@musteycraft9854]

@@KilljoyMaine yes. It's stonks time

[@nicolascuellonunez812]

“You’re not so precise now, are you?” That definitely earned my like 👍🏽

[@xalataf3365]

I guess you could say those resistors... couldn't *RESIST.*

[@CharmanderFanCharFan]

Xalata

[@germanlime]

The communitys creativity is shocking. Get it?...

[@Bodragon]

"STOP RESISTING!" "STOP RESISTING!" "BANG!" "OOPS!" "SHOTS FIRED!" "CAPACITOR DOWN!"

[@drakethedragon457]

XD

[@tokenofdevotion]

+Bodragon LMAO XDD

[@BladeScraper]

"rated for 1 amp, so I'm gonna be using 5 of those"

[@limbaksa]

2:52 nice model rocket engine!

[@shazam6800]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@hyperphoton0616]

혹시... 한국인?

[@Goodgu3963]

1:33 That smoke ring is insanely cool. It gets launched off of the resistor then expands and flies back over the resistor it came from. That is absolutely nuts.

[@MTN1601]

Imagine when that smoke ring was a resistor’s ghost

[@meesguyy]

‘Renowned as being extremely tolerant of overloads, it’s the tantalum capacitor!’ *BANG* This made me laugh too hard

[@bigclivedotcom]

Dan, be aware that those power supplies all seem to have a glitch that can cause them to crash on rare occasions, but do it in style by putting out a random voltage. If whatever you're working on starts misbehaving check out the display and whip the leads out if it's showing a high voltage. (Then video it in its crashed state.) Maplin seem to be in denial about this problem and have removed product feedback mentioning it.

[@TheAwesomeManDan]

I’ve had them flick to 36V for no apparent reason. Figured it was something like noise being coupled back as it only ever happened in smps development. Got in the habit of setting the voltage limit every time after losing some expensive silicon.

[@Kalanchoe1]

@@TheAwesomeManDan you gotta be careful with high-frequency stuff, I've had three 555 timers leave a dent in the ceiling because some high-frequency noise got back to the supply and it just stopped regulating voltage and current temporarily.

[@bigclivedotcom]

@@TheAwesomeManDan I subsequently discovered that when it crashes the three voltage range LEDs will be off, but the actual range selected is the 36V range. I've got in the habit of making sure that on the rare occasion I use that range I always set it back down to about 3V. That way when the PSU crashes it just puts out 3V. Shame - it's quite a useful supply otherwise.

[@time-lapserpro4370]

@@bigclivedotcom How often does the supply crash in your experience?

[@Leekodot15]

Needed more data or just another notification about the question of "how often does the thing crash"

[@shauryatomar6625]

POV: You get this recommended to you 6 yrs later

[@kashimeikuto9059]

Yes in my recommendation

[@NikhilKumar-ik4ws]

Yes me too

[@germoadok9034]

Its bc k watched electro boom

[@justkeno5928]

Yea wtf

[@justkeno5928]

@@germoadok9034 I didn't watch anything about election or electroboom

[@TheRealWALLABI]

4:07 on repeat. Oddly satisfying to watch :O

[@balargus319]

They should make all capacitors like that

[@ibims6710]

1:32 smoke ring

[@thomas-nk7kx]

But how does that work? There wasn't any smoke there and suddenly there is a ring with velocity going (suspiciously) down the wire

[@Marcinixify]

still wondering how its possible

[@Dogge444]

@@thomas-nk7kx cuz there was smoke thats why

[@humblehostile7946]

Saw that

[@ianmoore5502]

@@Marcinixify it melted and opened up on the side the ring moved down..

[@ianbeilfuss7662]

4:06 when I try to play minecraft on my computer.

[@araigumakiruno]

Ian Beilfuss what!? 😂😂😂

[@duenorth9]

More like ping pong on mine...

[@Povilaz]

4:06 When I try playing GTA 5 on highest settings.

[@laalpattharkedevata]

more like trying to play a roblox game with over 400 players

[@rolanddeer6212]

get a new one

[@thegamingbayskeletor1637]

4:29 this is what anxiety looks like

[@dtorg1246]

3:30 now that's how you overclock a processor

[@first-last557]

D Torg Rated for 1 megahertz, so I’ll use 16.

[@technoroblox9402]

@@first-last557 common sense man

[@DaffyDaffyDaffy33322]

"Rectifier diode. Rated for 1 amp, so I'm going to be using 5 of those" For some reason this made me laugh :D

[@rkryukov996]

-DaffyDaffyDaffy33322-

[@ddaniel2934]

Me too and soo hard

[@adamgolden1802]

The noisy green LED was my favourite. BZZZBZBZBZBBBPPPTT.

[@SpeakerLoverEPIC]

Same

[@gepd12]

+Adam Golden (DoubleSolid) LOL

[@pip12111]

Adam Golden The 100o resistor flame out was my favorite

[@poggy205]

Same

[@Shimo8_]

5:05

[@mrgrimshaw]

"I've literally blown the arse out of it".. thanks for making me spit out my drink laughing

[@Jorti1boomboxvideos]

4:06 my computer before opening minesweeper

[@FAB1150]

2:49 i lost it with the "oh." Lol

[@Leekodot15]

Yup

[@Leekodot15]

What makes that moment amazing is it's very wimpy... Pop? I dunno if it even counts as a pop at this point.

[@eveline6273]

Oh no! Let's go look for it, did you leave it in the car?

[@spiritdox9774]

5:17 when you hear yourself talking in a recording

[@OlafurArons]

Nice how that bulb at the end went from 'Cool white' to 'Warm white' as it was overvolted. The manufacturers could save so much money.

[@gamingcorner107]

why did this channel stop posting video's?

[@ContactDeadAhead]

He exploded

[@bluezebra2759]

Either A) life happened and other things are more important and didn't have the time B) couldn't make enough to support the channel C) was a fun thing until KZbin policy changes

[@gamingcorner107]

@@bluezebra2759 lol i forgot about this comment but it was fun while it lasted

[@TheWhooo123]

Love the way you go from blowing up components to scientific principles like thermionic emission.

[@AtlasReburdened]

Dude, that is hands down the coolest smoke ring I've ever seen. The way it was drawn back in by the suction cause by the heat was cool enough, but then it not only survived impacting the alligator clip, but also survived _and_ gained thermal energy from the heat column, which was converted into enough kinetic energy to expand it and give it escape velocity through the suction on the other side. That one little smoke ring displayed so much beautiful physics that I can't believe it only got a one frame mention.

[@DetonatingD]

i would love to see a entire circuit board go up like the electrics here

[@salahadeenfernandez1294]

finally, a channel that gets straight to the point

[@ianbuilder]

4:28 well it did light up...

[@hubb8049]

Incandescent light

[@wtfuredead]

4:50 - You could say the blue LED blue. Pun jokes are one of the best :))

[@Blue-Maned_Hawk]

I can see we have ourselves a PbS fan here...

[@avesh_sayyed]

I am proud of you

[@thorthemaingod]

2:57 looks like a Grenade Exploding in a second

[@bensfractals43]

big components:*Explodes violently* small components:S H R I N C

[@tomp2008]

i dunno why i find watching this over and over again so satisfying. i must be a pyromaniac.

[@TomBom292]

saame

[@Wilbur-em1hw]

Tom P. Yup u r. Amigo. Same here.

[@Leekodot15]

Try electromaniac. Maybe. Or don't. Up to you.

[@Greg-vb4zl]

We all have one inside :) 🔥🔥🔥🔥💥

[@vehicleboi5598]

This video's content: 50% Fire 20% Explosions 10% Component charred in half 10% Fire+component halved 10% Other

[@cows_cowsandcows]

1:57 Popcorns During Heating In A Nutshell

[@gavinstarr7172]

4:34 "Bi-color LED *POP* Bye" Not sure why but I laughed at that one

[@train_otaku14]

Same

[@djeffervescenceVR]

"Bi-color LED." ***pop*** "Bi! Get it? Is it Bi-color eh... nevermind."

[@GRBtutorials]

3:35 That looks like an interesting way to quickly decap ICs! No nitric acid needed!

[@windowsxpthevyonder1517]

or old 8086 processers

[@jasonperry7428]

I’m pretty sure it’s the die that exploded It probably just had enough force to tear itself out the container

[@DylansLife]

"I've literally blown the arse out of it" ~Dan 2016

[@TheRealMMC]

He said "I've literally blown the heart out of it!" Not "arse"

[@VeiTheOne]

@@TheRealMMC I thought he said Aux

[@FIXDIY]

A good video to know how electronic parts burn, to anticipate how they will be damaged, and to take care of who causes them to fire

[@j.l1684]

3:37 *When u play GTA V in your 3GB Laptop*

[@MigotRen]

bi color LED. bye. get it? I laughed hard

[@MIW_Renegade]

MigotRen same

[@ErCapoAlex]

Hahah

[@rajurahman7522]

AHHHAHHA

[@dev-xq8lz]

Stolen

[@pretinhobasico6539]

2:06 My brain in English test.

[@devlocalhost]

2:06 my brain on exams

[@lightbulb8888]

BRRRRR, peraí tem demoman na sua foto?.

[@user-dp5be9gt5e]

@@devlocalhost Aaaand is gone. F for failure. Awww...

[@devlocalhost]

@@user-dp5be9gt5e bruh

[@vittosphonecollection4134]

*maths

[@kahveciderin]

I like the way you connect those IC's...

[@yes.0]

4:25 when my brother eats my cake

[@allthegearnoidea6752]

Great fun, you are awesome Dan. Very entertaining thanks for sharing.

[@IllegalGamer69]

2:54 a capacitor can be used as a smoke grenade. 6:03 a resistor as a stun grenade

[@Devildefish]

You should try overclocking an LDR the result is very epic

[@dylandethanatos5776]

4:06 During Nnn me on the first day

[@EinsMalik1]

Bro that makes no sense u dont nut on NNN you mean after it

[@kerai7711]

@@EinsMalik1 hes saying that he fails nnn on the first day

[@PianoNBS]

@@EinsMalik1 r/wooossh

[@waleedahmed4591]

7:03 see the voilet light thats a dangerous ultravoilet ray with shorter wavelength but thankfully absorbed by our atmosphere

[@WajaBanzi-Official-2022]

It’s not. Cuz if it was, it wouldn’t be visible

[@nathanadams6648]

Thanks, your commentary is hilarious. Spot on

[@Debbiebabe69]

Reminds me a lot of electronics class at school. As we only had one combined lab/classroom, in project lessons the teacher taught a GCSE (15-16 year olds for those outside the UK) class in the regular fashion, while an A-level class (17-18 year olds) could use the rest of the room as they wished to work on their major projects. Hence we took full advantage. Sabotage between each other was so common whenever you got your breadboards out at the start of a lesson the first thing you would do was reverse all your electrolytic caps and 555 timer chips, as it was virtually guaranteed someone would have turned them around. Another was to check for the infamous, as we called it, 'Del-Boy Diode' - a reversed diode placed between the power input and the main power rail of the breadboard, which didn't explode, smoke or in fact do anything - it just ensured not a single volt of power would reach the circuitry until you realized the diode had been maliciously planted and took it out. The other was to innocently get as close as you dare to the 15 year olds, and plug in a 'project', which was not a project at all, it was deliberately designed as either a bomb or a smoke machine. Smoke machine, usually a 555 chip and/or a few resistors wired up to gently smolder, was the preferred way as you could be long gone happily working away at the other side of the room before the kid started looking round to see who owned the burning board, and getting a lung full of grilled resistor as a memento. The 'bomb' was less subtle, almost always a 555 timer chip, designed for 5 volts but getting 24 volts - the wrong way. By the end of our 2 years most of us had figured out the best way to wire up a 555 chip to get the most 'bang' out of 24 volts (which was the max of our lab power supplies) As you can tell the versatile 555 IC got misused a LOT during our time there, and we were really surprised the teacher didnt ask questions about why our class were all eating through a ridiculous number of these chips.....

[@madhusudanmandal6575]

The green led shock circuited so amazingly.

[@GrulbGL]

"suspense leve..." HAHAHA...!! cryed!

[@Satelitko]

"Ah, I love the smell of burning componentry in the morning!"

[@daoutbox9884]

For some the magic smoke brings excitement, where as Not expecting Is not fun seeing a unscheduled light show on you freshly built kit.

[@mme725]

Gosh, they need you to play Mr Conductor on Thomas, you have a great voice for it. Fantastically nostalgic cadence.

[@bunblue]

this is the best video on youtube. nothing compares.

[@76mmGMC]

6:14 It's only half as awesome because you put two identical resistors in parallel

[@varuncornelio530]

Lol the voltage is same for both...try taking some science classes again

[@cyleleghorn246]

@@varuncornelio530 But the current going through each is halved?

[@carterpeel625]

that smoke ring was cool

[@voipsip00000]

This is unique, you have my subs after so many yrs of this channel unnoticed by youtube

[@Tiberiumfreek]

I would have not guessed watching blowing up tiny electronic things would be so entertaining.... and the bad dry humor. thank you for that.

[@randomgamingstuff1306]

This is what my class did in the circuits portion of high school engineering. Twas quite fun till we had to contribute in purchasing all the caps, resistors, lightbulbs, and other electrical components we broke.

[@reisen-5970]

6:08 MY LIFE FLASHED BEFORE MY EYES!!! lol

[@joshsawesomeroom7631]

this video is the definition of "every machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough"

[@Blandyman]

This was awesome, man.

[@codingvio7383]

3:53 finally I know what to use in my DIY electric bullet

[@CreativeCommons277]

Amazing lightning show must be there

[@madhusudanmandal6575]

The green led shock circuited so amazingly

[@theeagle4306]

2:02 Thats what she said to me as well

[@koppo5657]

I frickin spilled coke all over my pants

[@technoroblox9402]

@TheReal_Yash I disliked you're comment

[@technoroblox9402]

@TheReal_Yash ok fine but yours was stupid

[@technoroblox9402]

@TheReal_Yash same for you

[@pigeonpigeon7404]

@@technoroblox9402 you do know you dont have to say anything?

[@Shazzkid]

I would love to take a deep breathe of all the chemicals released that day

[@KeyboardxDrawmer]

I very very want to do this,someone finally took the video,thank you!

[@Cyber_Horse_Studios87]

Man I miss this channel… this stuff is great. XD

[@nightskydawnnsd5994]

Dan: What should we do with spare electrical components? also Dan: how about torture

[@haShira_222]

7:14 MY BRAIN DURING EXAM 😂😂

[@Cornnard]

Very relatable 🤣🤣🤣

[@fxeditors]

The sound quality is awesome

[@moivien]

Love your video. Awesome

[@infinitethings2413]

About 17 hours ago an electric pole exploded outside my house and another caught on fire a few days ago, I'm worried that KZbin could be stalking me.

[@fungusenthusiast8249]

one time I was playing around with some tantalum capacitors, and i accidentally connected it the wrong way to 9 volts, and the whole thing exploded with a huge bang shooting parts of itself across the room. I then decided to do it again but ramp up the power slowly. Eventually, pink smoke came out of the capacitor.

[@katchou1337]

blowing stuff up never gets old ^^

[@_azureAutumn]

this man's voice is really chill

[@jacobslab4824]

lol paused at suspense level 100%

[@euX222X]

7:45 this was a 2kv transformer burning to hell and failing to smoke a simple lamp?!?!?!

[@doggo7567]

Thanks bro for this

[@ricardosuarez8023]

Brilliant! Thanks for posting. I know what to do now if I don't have a lighter or matches.

[@GRBtutorials]

That "Review" button is obviously to make it more powerful for review purposes, just like those Android phones that overclocked the CPU when they were being benchmarked.

[@damien12221]

How come you have 2000 subs and not 2000000?

[@vishwajit7890]

Damien see ur subers u have only 305

[@gsdjparaeventossocialesdjg9679]

here comes one more

[@stonecold7945]

Damien Now 20,000

[@pikachu5700]

27,000 now

[@BukuiZhao]

You only have 461

[@johncj6068]

You are really awesome man

[@Mountineclimber24]

I love your voice and this channel!

[@shmooglevitz7281]

2:46 so cutee

[@subscriberchallangewitho-tg4yg]

Oh

[@subscriberchallangewitho-tg4yg]

@@ieatglue4028 ok

[@the.emiplay]

Oh

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[@lunakittyyy]

DEYVYANCRAFT 2 what

[@tessafultz9828]

4:07 when my playstation starts up

[@insanegamer4854]

What no

[@riot_crossfire8454]

the voice and the video is very satisfying

[@parasvarshney]

In the first 10 seconds, love your mic quality and subscribed to you !!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

[@Flumphinator]

Fondly reminds me of Photonicinduction's channel.

[@idgaf5252]

What? By not uploading for ages? Yeah I see the similarities.

[@Flumphinator]

I heard he actually really hurt himself. Hoping he's alright. His was my favorite channel.

[@idgaf5252]

That was a rumour. He's fine look at the discussion on his channel page

[@noamw3841]

That was.... Shocking XD Nice video!

[@TomBom292]

*ba dum tss*

[@retardlol2714]

Noam W ba dum tsss

[@xmantheeevee]

The 100ohm precision resistor sparking up actually sounded good

[@Aevony]

how much i saw this video and still rewatching it

[@user-pp8xl6eg6z]

When it smoked, i smelled it! Then I realized my food was on fire in the microwave!