[diarish]

[kaberett]

Today started, auspiciously, with me getting Adam to hold my hand through a bunch of detailed troubleshooting of the four-way block that's command-stripped to the wall just above my bedside table for the purposes of plugging in my bedside lamp, my phone/watch charger, hair clippers, etc. I'd checked that everything plugged into it still worked in different sockets, and then moved the actual four-way block through to the living room to test it with a different electron source (all four sockets!) and was perplexed to find that Everything Was Fine. I'd been gearing up to get the multimeter out and check the fuse in the plug and so on and so forth, but it was all... mysteriously fine?

So I took it back to the bedroom, plugged it back in, and experienced The Dawning Realisation that the great big clonk my phone made falling down the back of it last night?

Had bounced off the switch rendering the whole damn assembly turned off at the wall.

Anyway, this evening I have a migraine, but in the meantime (with more of A's supervision) I used some power tools and reseasoned some cast iron and oiled and sharpened a variety of gardening blades, and I'm less miserable than I might be, so on balance it has been a satisfactory day.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Oho! Mystery solved!

[vass]

Had bounced off the switch rendering the whole damn assembly turned off at the wall.

Ah, the classic troubleshooting experience. <333

[sfred]

<3

[silveradept]

It's always nice when it turns out to be that the switch got switched.

Boo migraines, hooray for seasoning and sharpening.

[catyak]

Been there, done that, etc.

I have a standard list of things I try now, based on that sort of experience:
1. Is it plugged in?
2. Is it switched on?
2a. (are there multiple switches in series?)
3. Are volts actually present at the input?
3a. Is there a fuse to chec********k?

I have spent hours fault-finding only to find it was one of those obvious things.