Little things

[BOB BRODY]

Well that was a very important safety tip and much appreciated. I've
since re-instructed my daughter on how to change a fuse and why not to
mess around inside a monitor. I also since called my technical guru and
repairs person, Tom DeGroot. We call him Dr. DeGroot, having bestowed
our own kind of doctorate upon him. (Reading the notes here about
various colors per type of doctorate I'm inclined to suggest paisley for
computer gurus.) One has to know DeGroot to appreciate him because he's
hard on do-it-yourselfers but I called him just to pass along what my
daughter described pre monitor crash in case he had some input on why,
etc. While I didn't tape record our conversation, I pretty much recall
it word for word:

"You went inside the monitor to change the fuse?! Jesus H Christ. Why
didn't you just stick your finger in a socket and save some time?!
Jesus H Christ. Did you look at the manual first? No, of course not.
If you did you would have seen the fuse is accessible from the outside.
Jesus H Christ. If the monitor is intelligently built there's an access
bay with a voltage selector and a fuse holder. You pop open the cover
and there's the f*ing fuse, for crying out loud. Jesus H Christ..."

And so ends the episode of the blown fuse. Thanks for the info. (I
since looked at the manual and sure enough there are instructions on
changing the fuse. I didn't have to open the monitor to get at it.
There's a little trap door in the back that pops open and there's a
voltage selector wheel for rotating to a different voltage (115v or
230v) and next to it is a little spring-held holder that pops out on
pushing it in and there's the fuse. O'well.)