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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[@nexus1g]

Your dry sense of humor is godly.

[@jcke-2143]

nexus1g “bi color LED”

[@LexMc0606]

@@jcke-2143 "Bye!"

[@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"

[@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!

[@prometheus-ii7030]

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

[@meesguyy]

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

[@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

[@nicolascuellonunez812]

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

[@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

[@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

[@BladeScraper]

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

[@TheRealWALLABI]

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

[@balargus319]

They should make all capacitors like that

[@limbaksa]

2:52 nice model rocket engine!

[@shazam6800]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@hyperphoton0616]

혹시... 한국인?

[@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"

[@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

[@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

[@thegamingbayskeletor1637]

4:29 this is what anxiety looks like

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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?

[@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..

[@Jorti1boomboxvideos]

4:06 my computer before opening minesweeper

[@mrgrimshaw]

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

[@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

[@spiritdox9774]

5:17 when you hear yourself talking in a recording

[@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

[@albshore8]

This guy is a hero. He freed all the trapped electrons.

[@user-tz3fd8hm4q]

And the trapped magic smoke.

[@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 :) 🔥🔥🔥🔥💥

[@TheWhooo123]

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

[@IllegalGamer69]

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

[@cows_cowsandcows]

1:57 Popcorns During Heating In A Nutshell

[@vehicleboi5598]

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

[@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

[@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."

[@joshsawesomeroom7631]

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

[@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.

[@thorthemaingod]

2:57 looks like a Grenade Exploding in a second

[@bensfractals43]

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

[@salahadeenfernandez1294]

finally, a channel that gets straight to the point

[@j.l1684]

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

[@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

[@DetonatingD]

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

[@haShira_222]

7:14 MY BRAIN DURING EXAM 😂😂

[@Cornnard]

Very relatable 🤣🤣🤣

[@ianbuilder]

4:28 well it did light up...

[@hubb8049]

Incandescent light

[@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

[@reisen-5970]

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

[@Devildefish]

You should try overclocking an LDR the result is very epic

[@waleedahmed4591]

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

[@MigotRen]

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

[@Yelawolf269]

MigotRen same

[@ErCapoAlex]

Hahah

[@rajurahman7522]

AHHHAHHA

[@dev-xq8lz]

Stolen

[@yes.0]

4:25 when my brother eats my cake

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@codingvio7383]

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

[@GrulbGL]

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

[@allthegearnoidea6752]

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

[@bunblue]

this is the best video on youtube. nothing compares.

[@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

[@nathanadams6648]

Thanks, your commentary is hilarious. Spot on

[@PhantomDevIndie]

"and a regular resistor" * converts into a flashbang *

[@wefeonto2014]

4:06 my brain when its science exam

[@tessafultz9828]

4:07 when my playstation starts up

[@insanegamer4854]

What no

[@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?

[@celticwinter]

"Husband, why the f*** is our apartment full of toxic fumes agai-"
"I'm breaking in a power supply to make our home extra safe for you"

[@Blandyman]

This was awesome, man.

[@jacobslab4824]

lol paused at suspense level 100%

[@lukolehauser4085]

why did the cables move at 7:34, does the transformer create a magnet... it is loads of wire around iron cores.

[@madhusudanmandal6575]

The green led shock circuited so amazingly.

[@voipsip00000]

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

[@Shazzkid]

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

[@carterpeel625]

that smoke ring was cool

[@kahveciderin]

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

[@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.....

[@nightskydawnnsd5994]

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

[@rabiahmohamadisa669]

4:03 Bomb Power

[@KHaLeD-jv7fu]

Terrorisssttt

[@Gabehasnewyt]

LOOK AT THE MESS ITS MADE

[@kacpe8766]

What would you do with a 28v 10A supply?

[@xmantheeevee]

The 100ohm precision resistor sparking up actually sounded good

[@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.

[@Computer-Catt]

3:27
Me after tacoBell
When i just just make it to the bathroom

[@vittosphonecollection4134]

5:39

[@deathrex6199]

4:28

[@tomkuipers2126]

Having studied electronics at high school, I smelt this video.

[@KeyboardxDrawmer]

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

[@shmooglevitz7281]

2:46 so cutee

[@subscriberchallangewitho-tg4yg]

Oh

[@subscriberchallangewitho-tg4yg]

@@ieatglue4028 ok

[@the.emiplay]

Oh

[@deyvyancraft2132]

@@subscriberchallangewitho-tg4yg *hi! Welcome to my scool houceeeeee haaaa MUUUUUAAAA HAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA LOLOLOLOOOOOOOOL*
*ok to much*

[@lunakittyyy]

DEYVYANCRAFT 2 what

[@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.

[@anvildragon7927]

you got a sub i was dying the whole time i love this man. please be my electrician comedian while work

[@doggo7567]

Thanks bro for this

[@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?

[@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 TH-cam could be stalking me.

[@madhusudanmandal6575]

The green led shock circuited so amazingly

[@_azureAutumn]

this man's voice is really chill

[@iqbalrazi9814]

5:38 when tony stark created an arc reactor

[@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.

[@NemesisXKL2]

ty youtube, another thing i didnt know i have to watch all day long

[@mme725]

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

[@user-pp8xl6eg6z]

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

[@j.l1684]

4:20
Since I will need more power. Good think I've got two of 'em.
*Nervous led light laugh*

[@KhurramShahzad-id7qy]

this is oddly.......... satisfying.

[@katchou1337]

blowing stuff up never gets old ^^

[@Greg-vb4zl]

5:44
It almost looked like a failed attempt at creating the big bang that made the universe!