<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke</a><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 3:42 PM, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:digitalmars-d@puremagic.com" target="_blank">digitalmars-d@puremagic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 12:17:00 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:<br>
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I seriously doubt a fan would stop an electrical fire (in fact, probably makes it worse). It's not overheating, it's arcing.<br>
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Actually, it would probably make it worse by providing fresh O2 to the fire.<span class=""><br>
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BTW, this reminds me of a old goodie:<br>
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A old colleague of mine always said when you see smoke, there's no way to fix it, because it's really hard to get the smoke back in there.<br>
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We had a similar saying when I was involved int he electronic world: Chips must be powered by smoke. We know this because once it is gone, the chip doesn't work anymore.<br>
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