RE: how to blow up your equipment

["William Walker" <billwalker@baymoon.com>]

The good news is you can order a power supply from Rane, online, in either
US or European Voltages, and they based are in Washington State.
www.rane.com,, and yes, you most likely fried the power supplies only. I
must say, I'm no fan of wall warts, but they do prevent us from burning out
the insides of our gear.
Good Luck,
Bill


-----Original Message-----
From: Zoe Keating [mailto:cello@zoekeating.com]
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 2:56 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: how to blow up your equipment


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