hardware debugging - history repeats itself

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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Jack Rubin wrote:

> 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!

Those bastards are EVERYWHERE! ;)

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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