Oh cruel ironic fate!
Posted by: Willito on 17 October 2003
Imagine my joy last week to take delivery of my CDS3. Close your eyes and share with me a moment the patience, love and satisfaction with which I have listened to it slowly burn in this week.
But my mistress fate is cruel! A small insignificant matter required me to power the system down for less than a minute. One by one as the instruments powered up, their badges beamed brightly as I made my way slowly up the stack to the source. I am sure that you can guess what happened next.
Stress, swearing, sweat!
A frantic call to Billy Vee was able to diagnose the problem as a blown main fuse in the XPS2. (Oh lucky me, that I managed to flick the switch just at the peak of the sine wave. Time to play the lottery I guess, as this weekend it clearly could be me.) Unfortunately they do not have any replacement parts, and so a new fuse will need to be ordered from Naim on Monday. Adding insult to injury I am leaving on a business trip Monday, and will not be back until Saturday. Until then, my beloved CDS3 will remain dark.
Talk about being the man who had it all and watched it float away!
Pardon the pathos and the melodrama, but I thought you would appreciate the irony.
Yours with a stiff upper lip,
Willito (otherwise known as Job)
But my mistress fate is cruel! A small insignificant matter required me to power the system down for less than a minute. One by one as the instruments powered up, their badges beamed brightly as I made my way slowly up the stack to the source. I am sure that you can guess what happened next.
Stress, swearing, sweat!
A frantic call to Billy Vee was able to diagnose the problem as a blown main fuse in the XPS2. (Oh lucky me, that I managed to flick the switch just at the peak of the sine wave. Time to play the lottery I guess, as this weekend it clearly could be me.) Unfortunately they do not have any replacement parts, and so a new fuse will need to be ordered from Naim on Monday. Adding insult to injury I am leaving on a business trip Monday, and will not be back until Saturday. Until then, my beloved CDS3 will remain dark.
Talk about being the man who had it all and watched it float away!
Pardon the pathos and the melodrama, but I thought you would appreciate the irony.
Yours with a stiff upper lip,
Willito (otherwise known as Job)
Sorry 
Ok, don`t delete it but edit it with many smilies. 
Emmanuel
All opinions are my own, and reflect those of the organisation i work for, even if not stipulated.
Emmanuel
All opinions are my own, and reflect those of the organisation i work for, even if not stipulated.
Too late .. I posted it this morning, not thinking for a moment that the super-smart people who frequent this forum would take it seriously, and then went out in the garden. It's now late afternoon (in NZ) and the system won't let me edit or delete it.
As it has been a beautiful day, here are the smiles :
As it has been a beautiful day, here are the smiles :
Willto
Hopping over from another thread here, should I mention that I own your lovely ex-CDX2 now?
Have just discovered this whilst I'm sitting right here in Billy Vee having the PIC updated before I take it away
Small world!
On a consolation note, when I first got my CD5, the fuse blew when I first turned it on and had to go get a replacement as well! Frantic couple of hours that was!
Steve.
Hopping over from another thread here, should I mention that I own your lovely ex-CDX2 now?
Have just discovered this whilst I'm sitting right here in Billy Vee having the PIC updated before I take it away
Small world!
On a consolation note, when I first got my CD5, the fuse blew when I first turned it on and had to go get a replacement as well! Frantic couple of hours that was!
Steve.
Minky,
all is 4given...
all is 4given...
Well Graham's was able to help me out this morning. I picked up a couple of fuses for the princely sum of 50 p each. Bizarrely (probably my neuroses), the CDS3 sounds better after its "nap". While it is supposedly fairly rare for a fuse to blow, I think always keeping a spare to hand will be a good policy from now on.
Don't worry Minky, I never took your advice seriously, and could see it for the joke it was. I was about to post back further whimsy about maybe soldering a copper bridge in place would work better, but after your chastisement, decided the better of it.
Steve, good luck with the CDX2! It is an amazing player, and I can assure has been treated with nothing but the greatest love, respect, and consideration.
As always, thanks to the Forum for its support in a moment of need!
While it is supposedly fairly rare for a fuse to blow, I think always keeping a spare to hand will be a good policy from now on.Don't worry Minky, I never took your advice seriously, and could see it for the joke it was. I was about to post back further whimsy about maybe soldering a copper bridge in place would work better, but after your chastisement, decided the better of it.
Steve, good luck with the CDX2! It is an amazing player, and I can assure has been treated with nothing but the greatest love, respect, and consideration.
As always, thanks to the Forum for its support in a moment of need!
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Originally posted by Richie T:
Minky
This time you have gone too far. A nail indeed! To suggest that was just dangerous. Who could have possibly realised you weren't being serious! Shame on you, particularly when you knew all along the correct answer (short term only mind) is a paperclip! Please refrain from attempting humour in the future as it far to hard to detect and indeed may result in personal injury, death - or worst of all, damage to equipment!
Richie T
No,no,no Richie T! The correct thing to do is wrap the blown fuse with aluminium foil and reinsert it into the holder!
P.S. I've actually fired people for doing this with sensitive electronic equipment.
Sorry Minky, i did not understand you meant a 5 amp rated nail.
Emmanuel
All opinions are my own, and reflect those of the organisation i work for, even if not stipulated.
Emmanuel
All opinions are my own, and reflect those of the organisation i work for, even if not stipulated.
I managed to blow a fuse on my Densen B300XS power amp - it was caused by attaching the mains lead whilst the amp was switched on.
How gutted I felt until I discovered that the Densen has a holder in there that stores a spare fuse. A few seconds later normality was restored.
I notice that my CDX has a holder for a spare fuse right by where the fuse is slotted. Why oh why can't they stick a spare fuse there?
It would make sense, and only costs a few pence.
Regards,
Steve.
How gutted I felt until I discovered that the Densen has a holder in there that stores a spare fuse. A few seconds later normality was restored.
I notice that my CDX has a holder for a spare fuse right by where the fuse is slotted. Why oh why can't they stick a spare fuse there?
It would make sense, and only costs a few pence.
Regards,
Steve.