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)
quote:
Originally posted by Steven Toy:
_Unfused boss!_
Firing someone for botching a fuse is a bit ott I think. A verbal warning would/would have suffice(d), surely not?
People can learn from their mistakes, or do you enjoy having a high turnover of staff?
Steve.
What if the blown fuse was protecting the case of faulty equipment from live mains.....?
Nime
Everyone has the right to be wrong.
quote:
Originally posted by Steven Toy:
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.
Steve,
now all Naim equipment (apart from the preamps obviously) comes as new with a spare fuse inside the fuse holder.
Richard
OK all,
Due to the number of contributions making references to replacing the case fuses with either uprated or "unrated" items, I'm closing this thread.
It only leaves me to remind everybody that the case fuses are carefully rated to comply with CE regulations and are there to protect not only the equipment but also you and others from risk of electrocution or fire under certain fault conditions.
Even if you feel you are willing to bear that risk and risk your family's or your neighbour's lives then at least spare a thought for the poor sap who buys your kit second-hand in 10 or so years time unwittingly taking the same risk because you forgot to replace the case fuse with the correctly rated item.....
Richard
Due to the number of contributions making references to replacing the case fuses with either uprated or "unrated" items, I'm closing this thread.
It only leaves me to remind everybody that the case fuses are carefully rated to comply with CE regulations and are there to protect not only the equipment but also you and others from risk of electrocution or fire under certain fault conditions.
Even if you feel you are willing to bear that risk and risk your family's or your neighbour's lives then at least spare a thought for the poor sap who buys your kit second-hand in 10 or so years time unwittingly taking the same risk because you forgot to replace the case fuse with the correctly rated item.....
Richard
quote:
Originally posted by Richard Dane:
OK all,
Due to the number of contributions making references to replacing the case fuses with either uprated or "unrated" items, I'm closing this thread.
It only leaves me to remind _everybody_ that the case fuses are carefully rated to comply with CE regulations and are there to protect not only the equipment but also you and others from risk of electrocution or fire under certain fault conditions.
Even if you feel you are willing to bear that risk and risk your family's or your neighbour's lives then at least spare a thought for the poor sap who buys your kit second-hand in 10 or so years time unwittingly taking the same risk because you forgot to replace the case fuse with the correctly rated item.....
Richard
Only joking Richard, but my last post seems to be missing.
Have you removed it!
Sean
