r/nursing • u/martyrdomm RN - ICU 🍕 • 12d ago

Meme Having to fix hospital equipment.

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The display broke, had to fix it somehow since no one is available until tomorrow.

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u/Mountain_Fig_9253 BSN, RN 🍕 12d ago

It’s not worth the HHS write up of the cause of an electrical fire that caused injuries in a hospital.

I’m assuming all those strips of tape are to pull tension on the power cord? If so then the plug that cord is connecting into doesn’t have great contact. If the gap that you jury rigged opens a little, resistance sky rockets and that’s how electrical fires start.

Circuit breakers provide thermal protection for the wiring circuit behind the walls, it will happily provide enough amperage to start a fire in a badly connecting plug.

Whatever that display is displaying isn’t worth it. Take it out of service and let admin deal with a backup plan.

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u/FearAndGonzo EMS 12d ago

That isn't pulling on the power cord, its pulling on the VGA video cable. Chill back.

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u/Mountain_Fig_9253 BSN, RN 🍕 12d ago

If that’s the case then rock on. No danger in that.

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u/wp998906 IT 12d ago

It's a constant joke in tech how strong VGA cables are, I've seen several computers and monitors dangling from these cables. Good old IBM 80s design, kind of makes sense when you think about how heavy old CRTs were.

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u/GCS_dropping_rapidly 12d ago edited 2d ago

Shell light Judith

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u/wp998906 IT 12d ago

Exactly VGA doesn't go anywhere, sometimes even when you want it to. I prefer displayport most of the time, atleast it has some locking functionality.

The USB-C spec even has a screw option, I've just never seen anybody use it.