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dear customers
all electrical motors are factory pre- charged with smoke.
If you see smoke coming out of your motor,the motoris no good anymore.
We cannot re-charge the motor with smoke.
you will have to install a new smoke pre-charged motor.
....there you go...

I can say the same for a now-defunct make of cinema projector console. [Linked Image] The wiring in that abomination was poorly marked, undersized and routed against every bloody sharp edge of the unit!

I also had the misfortune of frying a 2kW Xenon rectifier. It is available in 120v single phase and 220v single phase. Guess which one I connected to 220v? [Linked Image] That was one god-awful smell. Think dirty socks meets rotten eggs and dead fish. That old beast used selenium rectifiers (diodes) and they burned quite nicely with the aforementioned smell. That on top of the traditional burning copper/varnish smell from the coils.

Stupid should be painful.