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My old boss told me to never trust a 'no power' diagnosis without checking the fuse first
He was a guy who ran a small shop in Bellingham for 30 years. I was working on a vintage receiver and spent two hours tracing voltage before I finally listened to him and checked the main fuse. It was blown, a simple 2 amp glass one. I felt pretty silly for skipping the most basic step. Anyone else have a simple tip they ignored that cost them time?
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the_patricia2d ago
Yeah, that fuse lesson is a good one. I've wasted a whole afternoon on a dead monitor before realizing I never checked if the power strip was switched on. It's always the thing you assume can't possibly be the problem.
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terry_mitchell1d ago
A whole afternoon on a monitor that just needed a switched-on power strip? That's brutal. How did you not see the little red light was off? I would have lost my mind after the first hour.
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