Meffy wrote:Having worked many years as a real-life electronic technician, I can state with absolute certainty that I'd rather avoid smelling electronics.
Few things are more off-putting than the odor of a burning transformer or exploded electrolytic capacitor.
True story.
I woke up one morning to a horrible smell and a thin haze from about waist high all the way to the ceiling, it was scary as hell. Thin wisps of smoke just hanging in the air. Nothing appeared to be burning and nothing had any appearance of having been burnt.
We called the fire department. They arrived and couldn't see anything either so they started to air out the place with fans.
Everyone was concerned about what caused it and as I glanced over at my entertainment center, it hit me. The old tube based eico scope was turned off, but, I had left it on the night before. A quick check, and sure enough, the pilot light wouldn't come on, the power transformer had burned out.