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Every electronics device has the risk of catching fire given the right circumstances. It just takes one cable or switch being damaged causing it to overheat and
by aequitas 7y ago
Every electronics device has the risk of catching fire given the right circumstances. It just takes one cable or switch being damaged causing it to overheat and set something flammable ablaze.
Even your wall socket or wiring in the wall is not exempt. Screw in one clamping screw to loose and the amps running through it will heat the small contact area it makes to melting point.
Computers screens or TV's? Even worse, all the dust they collect through their cooling vents are an accident waiting to happen (happened to me with a crt screen in standby mode).
- olliej 7y agoCan confirm: had a wall socket next to my bed spontaneously catch fire when I was a kid.
- iforgotpassword 7y agoI had a socket in my room as a kid that would get warm even with loads in the range of 30W. I was too terrified to plug my PC into it although the outlet was right next to it. An electrician checked it once but didn't find anything, so at least the wiring and connections inside the socket must have been alright. Maybe somewhere inside the wall close to the socket a wire had a very thin section or something, and the heat spread to the socket eventually.
- oceanghost 7y agoCan confirm. Had a microwave once, that was not in use, just, turn on and start smoking. I ran outside and flipped the breaker for the house off. If nobody had been home, the house would have burnt down.