Date   : Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:14:31 +0100
From   : Sprow <info@...>
Subject: Re: Power outages

In article <060726085506@...>,
   Jonathan Graham Harston <jgh@...> wrote:
> Grrr...
>
>  After months of pestering to get the street lights repaired near me,
> Yorkshire Electricity Distribution have had the pavements up replacing the
> cables. They turned the power off to the whole street this morning.
>  
> On turning everything back on this afternoon the Master won't power on.
> Changing the fuse dosn't do anything, so I'm going to have to dismantle
> everything to get at the PSU to see if there's a fuse to replace, or just
> swap the entire PSU with another one.

Not so hasty. It's probably just the startup cap dried out - I've a Master
here that's on 24/7 but takes ages to start after I take the fuse out of the
ring main (as you do).

I'd be pretty sure if you wait 5-10 mins it'll power up normally (you can
even monitor the secondary rail creaping up with a multimeter),
Sprow.