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What are your favourite electronics smells?
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steve30:
My Amiga 500+'s switch mode PSU smells nice once its warmed up. Not quite sure what the actual smell is or which component it comes from, but it is pleasant.

I also like the smell of Rosin.
james_s:

--- Quote from: bdunham7 on November 29, 2021, 02:48:04 pm ---I've mostly lost my sense of smell, but from memory I would vote for the smell of a warm tube-powered console radio.

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That's pretty much the same as the arcade game smell. Makes sense I guess, warm dusty vacuum tube(s) inside an old wooden cabinet. I have a 1941 Philco console radio that I restored about 10 years ago that I use on a regular basis. There's one good retro radio station in the region that often plays period correct music. Unfortunately they drop their power level in the evening and there is a powerful station in the next state down that plays mostly mariachi music on the same frequency so both sometimes come in at once at night.
mag_therm:
One time I spent 2 weeks on a nasty problem on an inverter in a far away land.
The thing was big enough to get into ( provided locked off!) and was located on a mezzanine above the worker's communal bathroom.
So at the shift changes the perfume from all the soap and shampoo would waft up into the cabinet.

Another one was a VFD with problems located near the ovens of a famous dessert pie company.
For years after, every time I ate or even smelled the hot pies I remembered the horrors of that early AC drive.
Neper:
From a discussion in a German hifi forum:

In my experience, a burnt voice coil smells different.
25 CPS:
I gave it some thought and there are several that come to mind.

First would be that warm dust smell that running vacuum tube equipment has once it's gotten up to temperature which has been mentioned by a bunch of people.  I bought a Hewlett-Packard 205AG and it had been on at the seller's place so I could test it and I loaded it into the back seat of the car so it couldn't shift around and get damaged on the way home.  I didn't notice the smell while it was running on the seller's dining room table but about 20 minutes into the drive, the lingering smell reached me in the driver's seat and it brought back memories right away.

Freshly unsealed magnetic tape would be another.  Along the same lines, freshly unsealed photographic film packages but I don't really associate that with electronics the way I do tape.

Warm model train transformers.  That'd be the top three for me.
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