Just wanted to share a success story - During the last Chicago heat wave, our air conditioning stopped working. Nothing, furnace (we have those up north) fan worked fine and air was circulating, but no cooling at all. No response from the compressor. Supply and control voltages all checked out ok, thermostat worked, etc. Turned out to be an earwig (small insect) trapped in the contacts of the compressor controller. Removed said insect, cleaned up the contact points and we were cool. Shades of Grace Hopper and the Mark II moth!

-----Original Message----- From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jack Rubin Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 8:26 AM To: fufu at flexusergroup.com; Classic Computer List Subject: hardware debugging - history repeats itself Just wanted to share a success story - During the last Chicago heat wave, our air conditioning stopped working. Nothing, furnace (we have those up north) fan worked fine and air was circulating, but no cooling at all. No response from the compressor. Supply and control voltages all checked out ok, thermostat worked, etc. Turned out to be an earwig (small insect) trapped in the contacts of the compressor controller. Removed said insect, cleaned up the contact points and we were cool. Shades of Grace Hopper and the Mark II moth! Jack