Technically Minded? - No Chance!

planenut · 21st July 2020, 07:30

For the first time in donkeys I have cleaned my desk and bookshelves, even moving the desk top computer.

Went to switch said beast on last evening to find it dead, no power at all. Going through the fault finding routine I put down the club hammer and checked all plugs in sockets, all appeared fine. Didn't want to bother until daylight, changed the plug fuse this morning to find no difference. So, let's go over all the power connections. I slid the unit forward on the desk and got a torch out to start going over all the rear sockets. Ooh, what's that, a a little switch marked "off/on" which I had didn't recall and I must have caught it when I moved the unit. It's all okay, and running, and I realized that due to becoming so casual about it, I had never used that switch. Doh!

FLYING BANANA · 21st July 2020, 09:12

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Originally Posted by planenut

For the first time in donkeys I have cleaned my desk and bookshelves, even moving the desk top computer.

Went to switch said beast on last evening to find it dead, no power at all. Going through the fault finding routine I put down the club hammer and checked all plugs in sockets, all appeared fine. Didn't want to bother until daylight, changed the plug fuse this morning to find no difference. So, let's go over all the power connections. I slid the unit forward on the desk and got a torch out to start going over all the rear sockets. Ooh, what's that, a a little switch marked "off/on" which I had didn't recall and I must have caught it when I moved the unit. It's all okay, and running, and I realized that due to becoming so casual about it, I had never used that switch. Doh!

You are not alone, I never knew there was a on/off switch on my music box. Only had the machine 9 years. Only found out when I moved house.

planenut · 21st July 2020, 12:02

Whilst moving other items, I found a small circular rubber pad, then remembered I had found it a couple of years back and had assumed it was out of a digital camera I had dismantled. Ah, when I upturned my computer monitor to clean it I realized the pad had come from its base, doh2!

bikerdude666 · 21st July 2020, 17:57

Easily done. A few weeks back I was wiring my model railway. I had a short circuit that I was trying to trace, so systematically disconnected a section at a time to see which section had the short. Got it all figured out, all wires connected back up, engine on the tracks to test it all again, and nothing, checked all the wires, all fine, using the right control, yes, put a loco on the other previously fine track, and nothing!? Get down under the boards to start checking wiring again, disconnect the first block connector and then notice the plug for the control laying on the floor. I'd unplugged it to make sure I didn't accidentally turn it on and fry something, and then forgotten to plug it back in!

21st July 2020, 07:30	#1
planenut Regional Secretary Rover 1.8T Tourer Join Date: May 2007 Location: Heathrow Posts: 6,955 Thanks: 1,551 Thanked 2,036 Times in 1,264 Posts	Technically Minded? - No Chance! For the first time in donkeys I have cleaned my desk and bookshelves, even moving the desk top computer. Went to switch said beast on last evening to find it dead, no power at all. Going through the fault finding routine I put down the club hammer and checked all plugs in sockets, all appeared fine. Didn't want to bother until daylight, changed the plug fuse this morning to find no difference. So, let's go over all the power connections. I slid the unit forward on the desk and got a torch out to start going over all the rear sockets. Ooh, what's that, a a little switch marked "off/on" which I had didn't recall and I must have caught it when I moved the unit. It's all okay, and running, and I realized that due to becoming so casual about it, I had never used that switch. Doh!

21st July 2020, 12:02	#3
planenut Regional Secretary Rover 1.8T Tourer Join Date: May 2007 Location: Heathrow Posts: 6,955 Thanks: 1,551 Thanked 2,036 Times in 1,264 Posts	Whilst moving other items, I found a small circular rubber pad, then remembered I had found it a couple of years back and had assumed it was out of a digital camera I had dismantled. Ah, when I upturned my computer monitor to clean it I realized the pad had come from its base, doh2!

21st July 2020, 17:57	#4
bikerdude666 Posted a thing or two Jaguar Xe diseasal Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Little Stanion, Corby Posts: 1,922 Thanks: 363 Thanked 390 Times in 241 Posts	Easily done. A few weeks back I was wiring my model railway. I had a short circuit that I was trying to trace, so systematically disconnected a section at a time to see which section had the short. Got it all figured out, all wires connected back up, engine on the tracks to test it all again, and nothing, checked all the wires, all fine, using the right control, yes, put a loco on the other previously fine track, and nothing!? Get down under the boards to start checking wiring again, disconnect the first block connector and then notice the plug for the control laying on the floor. I'd unplugged it to make sure I didn't accidentally turn it on and fry something, and then forgotten to plug it back in!