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ateolfIn the early afternoon Mary Beth and I went up to the Listening Lab in Crosstown for a Silkworm q&a session. It was just Tim doing the talking but it was a really good talk (I mean, Tim's a good talker so it makes sense he'd be the one they send to do it). I guess I didn't know too much detail-wise about the history of the band, so it was informative and entertaining! It was a pretty good long talk too.
After that I went over to Josh's to have a look at my modular case. It ended up being much easier to fix than I'd expected! It took a little troubleshooting with the multimeter but he found the cause. It was a fuse that was blown, but not one of the fuses on the power supply; it was the fuse in the power inlet that's built into the case. (So looking over it all more, the old power supply didn't have a fuse built into the board but used that as its main fuse. I'm pretty sure it was also a good deal less powerful than the new power supply and this fuse had a much lower threshold than the ones on the board.) I had looked at that fuse but didn't see where it was connected to anything so I dismissed it as a spare. (Though to be kind of fair, there are two fuses in that compartment and one IS a spare so I wasn't completely off-base. It was easy to test 'cuz we quickly swapped the blown one for the spare that was right there and then it worked again. Once we'd found that was the cause. By "we" I mean, Josh of course!) Then afterwards I went up to Home Depot and picked up fuses with a higher threshold so it couldn't ever get tripped up too soon again.
Later Mary Beth and I watched a little more Treehouse of Horror (this time with spaghetti and banana splits!). And I spent the rest of the night working on my stuff for the out-of-town set now that I could again! Now it's coming along nicely. I still have some more practice and fine-tuning to do in the next couple days (since my delays took up time I should have been working on it!) but as it is now, I think I have enough of a grasp on it that I could pull off something decent. Still want to get familiar with everything and get my approach a little more organized, but happy with where it's headed at least.
After that I went over to Josh's to have a look at my modular case. It ended up being much easier to fix than I'd expected! It took a little troubleshooting with the multimeter but he found the cause. It was a fuse that was blown, but not one of the fuses on the power supply; it was the fuse in the power inlet that's built into the case. (So looking over it all more, the old power supply didn't have a fuse built into the board but used that as its main fuse. I'm pretty sure it was also a good deal less powerful than the new power supply and this fuse had a much lower threshold than the ones on the board.) I had looked at that fuse but didn't see where it was connected to anything so I dismissed it as a spare. (Though to be kind of fair, there are two fuses in that compartment and one IS a spare so I wasn't completely off-base. It was easy to test 'cuz we quickly swapped the blown one for the spare that was right there and then it worked again. Once we'd found that was the cause. By "we" I mean, Josh of course!) Then afterwards I went up to Home Depot and picked up fuses with a higher threshold so it couldn't ever get tripped up too soon again.
Later Mary Beth and I watched a little more Treehouse of Horror (this time with spaghetti and banana splits!). And I spent the rest of the night working on my stuff for the out-of-town set now that I could again! Now it's coming along nicely. I still have some more practice and fine-tuning to do in the next couple days (since my delays took up time I should have been working on it!) but as it is now, I think I have enough of a grasp on it that I could pull off something decent. Still want to get familiar with everything and get my approach a little more organized, but happy with where it's headed at least.
