I had te same problem with te Xmas tree lights. SWMBO said '#they stopped working at the end of last hear'
One moments thought and I realised the quickest thing was to remove ALL the bulbs, and test them with a meter across teh wires. Two dead (how to TWO bulbs in a chain below) and then put them all back plus tow new ones. Voila!
That plus installing the new slim TV which went where I had always intended the TV should go....
However the FM radio which share the same bit of coax was staying where it now was. Um. I soldered a spur of coax to the downlead (originally extended to take it to the old, "new TV position", and bugger me, FM still works and TV gets all 106 channels of shit plus some new HD ones.
The reflections must be vile. Thank Clapton for the old labgear distro amp..and enough boost to obliterate minor problems.
Now to get an RJ45 brass wall plate to connect it to the interweb and UPNP server..
Once again by a miracle the telephone socket, no longer used, has spare unterminated cat 5 going back to the patch panel.
I can sympathise with you, I had a very apologetic phone call at 19:30 tonight, Christmas day, from the owner/manager of a local community radio station. A power supply had died, did I have a replacement? It was on his main mixer and so there was no output from the station, not good. Ah well at least it got me out of the house for a couple of hours and he now owes me a BIG favour :-)
Mine was nearer to home... Went over to my parents on Christmas eve together with much of the family. Flushed the loo just before going to bed, only to find the water level settle far too high in the trap.
Christmas morning, I'm outside with drain rods, in between the yougsters opening their stockings, and breakfast, and got it all moving again.
Later in the day, dad poured several pints of goose fat down the kitchen sink, so I'm fully expecting to be out there again sometime...
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