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Irrational fear about equipment catching fire while not at home (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by VeryLongHairGuy@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I don't know if it also happens to you, but I always have this fear (not only the equipment but also the whole freaking house).

I have two Synology NAS devices and one "custom" server (just a PSU, a Ryzen CPU, two RAM sticks and a SSD).

Everything is grounded, on a compliant safety electrical installation, but I don't know... I'm maybe paranoiac by nature.

My biggest doubt is about the PSU. It is a certified PSU (from Be Quiet! IIRC), that has more than enough power (500W).

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[–] Renkin42@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I totally feel you on this. In my case I got into homelab after also getting into 3d printing, a hobby that really could be a fire hazard if something went awry, and my brain has wrongly filed my new hobby under “all hobby things that run continuously are a fire hazard”, even though in reality the risk here is basically zero. It probably doesn’t help that when I got my first 1u server I only plugged in one of the redundant power supplies and the other popped and let out the magic smoke.