I was on the computer today looking through the badcaps forum when I smelt something funny. It smelt like someone cooking some fish so I first thought that some one may have spilt tuna or sardines or something around me.... I checked carefully and there want anyone around me or anyone eating fish related content.... also noticed the windows were closed as well.
I then walked across the room and smelt that side of the room and it smelt fine.... only my area smelt like burning fish.... then I ignored it for a while until it started smelling like burning plastic similar to the time I shorted my socket 7 motherboard years ago. I scrambled down looking at my tower and smelling it.... nothing was burnt even though the smell seemed to come from there.
I then hear my father complaining that something was on fire and melting. I dahsed downstairs and went into the kitchen and there it was.... one of the fluorescent lights was melting.... and very hot as well. It had been turned off when I got down there. He also noticed the strong smell but had a look around and didnt notice anything until he looked at the kitchen counter and it was dark.
Now thef luorecent light has beencompletely destroyed. The housing for the light has been melted and looks like dripped plastic. On the brighter side the kitchen cabinets didn't catch fire. The light is one of the small fluorescent ones people use under cabinets as display lights. The light housing is made by Crompton lighting Australia.... a well known good brand here in Australia. The original Crompton tube that came with the unit died last year so it got replaced with this crappy Chinese made tube/ bulb that was purchased about a year ago.
I don't know what could have caused this but I guess there may have been a short somewhere in the fluorescent tube.
Thanks.
I then walked across the room and smelt that side of the room and it smelt fine.... only my area smelt like burning fish.... then I ignored it for a while until it started smelling like burning plastic similar to the time I shorted my socket 7 motherboard years ago. I scrambled down looking at my tower and smelling it.... nothing was burnt even though the smell seemed to come from there.
I then hear my father complaining that something was on fire and melting. I dahsed downstairs and went into the kitchen and there it was.... one of the fluorescent lights was melting.... and very hot as well. It had been turned off when I got down there. He also noticed the strong smell but had a look around and didnt notice anything until he looked at the kitchen counter and it was dark.
Now thef luorecent light has beencompletely destroyed. The housing for the light has been melted and looks like dripped plastic. On the brighter side the kitchen cabinets didn't catch fire. The light is one of the small fluorescent ones people use under cabinets as display lights. The light housing is made by Crompton lighting Australia.... a well known good brand here in Australia. The original Crompton tube that came with the unit died last year so it got replaced with this crappy Chinese made tube/ bulb that was purchased about a year ago.
I don't know what could have caused this but I guess there may have been a short somewhere in the fluorescent tube.
Thanks.
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