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That's precisely what was described, wasn't it?
by slver 6y ago
That's precisely what was described, wasn't it?
- thatguy0900 6y ago"I asked the guy what the power button pushing incantation did and he said “static discharge” so apparently there was some sort of static that caused a short or something." Not really, no
- romwell 6y agoSo the tech (or the person writing this up) mixed up "static" and "flea power"[1]. I believe the idea of "draining charge that shouldn't be there" has been properly conveyed nevertheless. [1] https://en.everybodywiki.com/Flea_Power https://en.everybodywiki.com/Flea_Power
- userbinator 6y agoI have, in several decades of operating and servicing computers and other electronic equipment, never heard of the term "flea power". According to that article it seems to have originated in a Dell service manual, which erroneously calls it "static electricity".
- slver 6y agoIs it incorrect to call it static electricity, though.
- KMag 6y agoI mean... it's charge at rest... so electric and static, but in that same sense, there's static electricity in batteries, and static electricity in DRAM (in-between refresh cycles), and any oscillator at the moment when the first time-derivative of charge reaches zero. I submit that a definition of static electricity as "charge at rest at non-ground potential" is so broad as to exist in any non-trivial circuit and many trivial circuits. Such a definition is therefore less useful than more common notion as electricity generated as a result of physical surface interactions of dissimilar materials. Calling it "static electricity" is likely to cause reasonably intelligent and well-educated people to conclude it's related to wearing wool socks in Winter while being insufficiently grounded, as opposed to charge being there as a result of normal circuit operation.
- CRConrad 6y agoIs it really, though -- isn't what happens inside capacitors basically the same thing as we call "static electricity" when it happens between other surfaces? Or, IOW, isn't pretty much anything potentially (Heh!) a capacitor, only pretty much all things except the ones purpose-built as such are really bad capacitors?
- romwell 6y agoSo what do you call it? Looks like there's no standard term that everyone uses; I'd say it's entirely forgivable that the tech called it "static" for lack of a better word.
- tcauduro 6y agoI've always referred to it as "residual" power/charge.
- metaphor 6y agoIt's difficult to imagine how the underlying fault here is anything other than a latch-up[1] event, likely manifesting on a upstream controller/supervisory chip in the power distribution chain. The description of this "flea power" reads like some cargo cult narrative that summarily conflates a handful of disjoint electrical characteristics/phenomena. It's like the modus operandi of interwebs consumerism. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latch-up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latch-up
- eloisant 6y agoThe article makes it sound like it's a secret code like a Konami code that the laptop will recognize, but it's not the case.