Wednesday, February 25, 2026

my shocking life stories...⚡

This isn't inspired directly from that one ElectroBOOM's video on YouTube where he clearly explains about his own shocking life stories with various electronic devices that he used to deal with (specifically back in his good old days), which was the reason about how come if his YouTube channel itself is now existed since his first video where he shocked himself for very first time on camera with that ESD device... In relation particularly about him and his shocking life stories though, I also have plenty of my own shocking life stories which involves various electronic devices, including electric fans (though I already explained them in one of my older Blogspot articles about it, so I decided to list them again). Without further ado, let's take a look at my own list of my own shocking life stories, shall we?

(this wasn't the same night light that i was referring below [👇], because it was occurred in my childhood house...)

  • I was once tried to plug a mini night light on the power outlet, and there was an earphone cable hanging RIGHT in front of the power outlet. I recklessly plugged it in, and BANG!!! My childhood house's entire power got cut in that evening!
  • One of my family's relative's from my mom's side was attempted to reuse one of the unused old E27 light fixture that was laying around since the last usage of it (which was from several years ago). He tried to use it in order to add the additional light in the kitchen of my childhood house by installing a random low wattage CFL bulb on it, and it suddenly BANG!!! My childhood house's entire power got cut in that evening!
  • During one of the class sessions in my old primary school, there was a moment where one of the teachers brought an accumulator as a part of the study itself. I touched the top part of accumulator itself, and I immediately got shocked.
(this wasn't the same vintage fan that i explained below...👇 [since this one clearly had completely different brand])
  • In one of neighborhoods of my childhood house, there was a vintage Sanyo (❔) desk fan running on 110v of voltage rating, which it used to work just fine since it was connected to step-down transformer (if I guessed that right). I decided to move it to another spot, which I stupidly connected it to the power outlet with standard 220v/50Hz of power rating, which caused the fan itself release some smokes out from it after several seconds later.
  • I was having fun with that one AC 220v cooling fan that I used to have, which I purchased in 2014. Somewhere from almost a decade ago, I was stupidly had fun by playing around with it due to some boredom that happened to me at the moment. Then, it suddenly decelerated yet it also produced some burning smells, and then it POPPED! The fan just stopped working due to the sudden burnout that suddenly occurred, yet it also popped my previous house's MCB. After all of that occurred, since it wasn't working anymore, I obviously trashed it away, and that was basically it.
  • A ceiling light socket in the TV room of my previous house used to trip the MCB plenty amount of times every single time I turned it on by flicking the light switch that was connected to it, especially when it used to equip any CFL bulbs on it regardless of the amount of wattage that they used to have. I decided to replace it with the LED bulb, and it did work just fine, except with some flickers every single time I turned it on. However, a repairman already replaced the light socket itself with a better one later on, and the old light socket itself also caused the small portion of the ceiling where it used to be installed got torched slightly.
  • My current house's indoor MCB used to trip the entire house's power several times due to it was faulty by all of the sudden specifically in that night, so I had to call a repairman in order to replace it with a better one.

If you have your own shocking life stories with various electronic devices that you ever experienced, feel free to share your own story specifically about it in the comments section if you're able to. That's basically it for what I could particularly say to it, and as always, thanks for reading this particular article.




Friday, January 16, 2026

The "death" of my two old 💻's hard disk drives...

You probably remember the time when I used to own both of those following 💻s before I own my current one (Lenovo), which those were both 13" Dell and Samsung, respectively... Since both of them were no longer work properly, I decided to take each of their own hard disk drives from them both in order to retrieve MANY of my old archived files from it. However, they both suddenly had their own problem where I was attempted to connect them to my current 💻 using the USB SATA cable, therefore I no longer able to retrieve ALL of my old archived files from them both anymore. Without further ado, let me explain both of those hard drives that came from both of those old 💻, right away.

A. Western Digital 500 GB (13" Dell)

Started off with this particular Western Digital 500 GB one. This was the one that originally came with that ancient 13" Dell 💻 that I stupidly wasted a lot of bucks from 6 years ago. At first glance, it worked reasonably fine, including by how I connected to my current 💻 using the SATA USB cable roughly after a while later since the Dell's LCD backlight screen died. However, somewhere in the last year, it suddenly ran into a problem where it simply bogged down for a whole lot, which caused it painfully slow to load everything on my current 💻's screen, specifically on the Windows Explorer. I tried many ways in order to fix it, but it barely did anything. Right now, I still keep it despite the current state that it has, but I don't think if I eventually decide to plug it on my current 💻 though for the umpteenth time.

B. Toshiba 320 GB (Samsung)

And then, there's this particular Toshiba 320 GB, which originally came from my old Samsung that I purchased back in 2013 (which also replaced my very first laptop, which was that Acer, though the condition of that Acer was okay apart from that weird BSOD itself which I already explained in some of my older Blogspot articles before)... Right after the original LCD screen itself went all white (which was unrepairable, with how the screen's bezel itself was also broken on one of the hinges), I decided to take the hard disk drive itself out from it and connected it to my current 💻 using the SATA USB cable, though I had a lot of "effort" for removing it from my old 💻's hard disk drive's slot thanks to all of those screws that originally screwed it in there. Similarly to that Western Digital one, it used to work reasonably okay, either during the old 💻 that used to equip it was working on it's own for years, or during I connected it to to my current 💻 using the SATA USB cable...... until it suddenly ran into a problem in similar fashion to that Western Digital too, except it now no longer getting recognized with my current 💻. During it occurred, I was attempted to check ALL of my old archived files on it, and then Windows Explorer on my current 💻 suddenly froze instead. Instead of restarting the Windows Explorer during it was in "Not Responding" state, I stupidly unplug the hard drive itself RIGHT in that exact state❗ Because of that, it simply no longer getting recognized with my current 💻. I tried many ways in order to fix it, but it obviously didn't do anything at all, yet it also makes some weird ticking noises from it too when this occurred.

(notice for how severely crooked the 💻's screen is...)

Well then, there you have it for both of those old 💻 hard disk drives that were once worked, but now both of them have their problems that I couldn't even fix them purely by myself. If you know about how to repair them (though it's nearly impossible to fix them both), please let me know particularly about it in the comments section if you're able to. That's basically it for what I could particularly say about this, and pay attention when it comes to treating one of those old physical storage devices like those, otherwise they will end up like both of those that I mentioned there.