Has anybody ever made a video of purposely overloading a power supply to see what happens?

[WillOfTheLand]

We've all heard the horror stories of people overloading PSU's or giving up the ghost after a while and releasing the "blue smoke" or catching fire, but I can't for the life of me find any videos of someone purposely overloading one just to show what happens if you do. I would have thought somebody like jayztwocents would have made something like this (seems to be a common thing on his channel to test how bad stuff can fail) but not even he has done it.
 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Ive done this before. All good psus will just shut off if too much power is used. There are few duds that will have issues, but its pretty rare.

[Quackers101]

there has been some vidoes with the 3090 were they did "overload" the system, it just crashed and turned off.

How much, what limits to test, and what kind of PSUs? Although I would like to know how good SFX vs ATX powersupplies would be, and if there is more risky design choices in some of them that could be more of an hazard?

[Godlygamer23]

A decent power supply will ideally just shut off because of having overcurrent/overvoltage protection kicking in. 

[NineEyeRon]

If you like that sort of stuff watch bigclivedotcom on YouTube 

[TetraSky]

Like others have said, any good PSU will shut down. 

That's also a way that you can tell if your system is drawing too much power. If the PC shuts down entirely, it means it drew too much. If it reboots, it means it overheated. For example.

 

A cheap PSU without a fuse or anything in it that protects it from overcurrent... Well, it might start melting.

[IkeaGnome]

Why was this not a part of the ElectroBOOM episode?

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Overload would shut off the PSU. Though you could shourt out all of the pins on the connectors to kill a PSU.

[AnomalyDesign]

This would only be interesting video content if you intentionally circumvent all of the safety circuitry of modern power supplies (think Mythbusters defeating all of the safety valves on water heaters). Otherwise you'd just have a video of computers turning off.

 

Power supplies don't make for very exciting content generally. Efficiency and reliable longevity (the goals of a great power supply) don't translate well on camera.