Re: how to blow up your equipment

["Todd Pafford" <calenlas@gmail.com>]

Wow, and this just weeks after I said I didn't want you frying yourself on the wiring in your new apartment.  I think this is some sort of message from the universe...or something.  :)

This brings up a question, though, that I've been thinking about for a while.  Do you professional types keep notebooks, diagrams, etc. of your gear settings, routing, etc.?  Take the FCB or example; were you able to quickly reprogram based on notes of how you had it set up, or did you have to re-figure it from scratch?  I've been thinking of putting together such a notebook myself, but haven't gotten around to it.

Anyway, glad to hear you and the repeaters survived.
Todd

On 3/27/06, Zoe Keating <cello@zoekeating.com > wrote:

well, a couple days ago I did just about the worst thing you can do
to your gear....I blew it up! in a stupid, jetlagged moment that I
won't go into, I plugged my US gear into a UK socket.

POOF!! crackle. blue smoke.

I realized immediately what I'd just done and cut the power. But it
was too late. Luckily I mostly fried the adaptors, and I'm hoping I
can replace them when I get back to the US. Some of the gear though,
like the Rane SM82, have the most ridiculous adaptors (a phone
plug???) and I had to replace them with substitute UK gear.  The
FCB1010 is dead and gone, but I got another and spent the hour before
the show reprogramming it.

But...and this made me so happy that I couldn't care less about the
other gear...

The Repeaters are intelligent and take US or European power. THEY ARE
FINE!! Made me so happy that I didn't mind dropping 250 pounds on the
rest of the gear. Hooray for my beloved Repeaters. Let me compose and
ode to them....

Anyway, I learnt my lesson! Thought I'd pass that little story on to
ya'll

loopily, Zoe