27 Aug
2004
27 Aug
'04
3:24 p.m.
I don't feel like doing any more debugging tonight
- I've just had my
Panasonic KX-P4400 in bits trying to find out why the paper was getting
splattered with toner as it hit the fuser. Stripped the fuser to bits,
cleaned the rollers, realigned the paper guide, put the fuser back together,
then found out the OPC drum had a scuff on it. Gaaah!
Don't feel too bad about it. I once spent a few hours trying to figure
out why a PSU wasn't giving any outputs, only to discover the cartdige
fuse in the (normal, 13A, BS1363) mains plug was missing. A new fuse held
and the machine worked fine after that...
Just to add some more fun, I built a cable to hook my text terminal up to the
Linux box. And put the wrong gender of connector on BOTH ends of the cable,
i.e. DB9M instead of 9F, DB25F instead of DB25M.
A worse version of that (and yes, I've done it) is to solder all the
wires onto one of those invernal circular mil-spec connectors and then
realise you've forgotten to put the back shell over the cable....
-tony