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A lazy saturday afternoon home alone with my new Logic3 speakers plugged into the big 32" flatscreen telly. I'm sitting at home, half asleep due to the 2 and a half hours of sleep I had got last night.
I thought as well I might try out all my new stuff I got yesterday and the speakers are brilliant, the gba link cable is working and I'm playing NES Balloon Fight on my GBA. Get bored of it, so plug in my US cube to download a different NES game from Animal Crossing to play. Finally my Stepdown is behaving itself and it is fixed (with rubber bands no less :D). The fools at Goblin delivered it broken with a part of it hanging out. And they didnt include the link cable in the bundle.. so I've had to fork out for a separate on (grumble..)
Anyways, I plug the Cube in, but nothing comes on. Perplexed, I blearily stare at the tangle of wires behind the telly of the lamp, arial, DVD/Video players, computer, printer, speakers, 2 cubes, and fairy lights and try to puzzle out why the cube hasnt come on...
I extract the Cube and it's wires, stepdown and powerpack from the back of the telly and plug it in a different plug. Still doesnt work. Wander off for a drink and return to put back my wavebird which I had put in my pocket while looking at Cube. I suddenly smell.. burning plastic. Uh-oh. I look at my plugged in US to see the stepdown gently pouring out acrid thick black smoke.
I don't like to think what would have happend if I hadn't come back and had left the Stepdown smoking there for about 10 minutes. Needless to say I quickly pulled out the plug and dragged the smoking stepdown by the plug out into the garden. I pulled it apart a little later and found some soldering had come apart and the heat had caused some labelling and part of the plastic coating to melt.
Hopefully, my US cube is ok. A horrible smell in my hair and clothes and throughout the house and a slightly burnt carpet are all it caused, but it makes you think, and I never thought I'd say this about Freeloader but it does have its good sides after all..
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I thought as well I might try out all my new stuff I got yesterday and the speakers are brilliant, the gba link cable is working and I'm playing NES Balloon Fight on my GBA. Get bored of it, so plug in my US cube to download a different NES game from Animal Crossing to play. Finally my Stepdown is behaving itself and it is fixed (with rubber bands no less :D). The fools at Goblin delivered it broken with a part of it hanging out. And they didnt include the link cable in the bundle.. so I've had to fork out for a separate on (grumble..)
Anyways, I plug the Cube in, but nothing comes on. Perplexed, I blearily stare at the tangle of wires behind the telly of the lamp, arial, DVD/Video players, computer, printer, speakers, 2 cubes, and fairy lights and try to puzzle out why the cube hasnt come on...
I extract the Cube and it's wires, stepdown and powerpack from the back of the telly and plug it in a different plug. Still doesnt work. Wander off for a drink and return to put back my wavebird which I had put in my pocket while looking at Cube. I suddenly smell.. burning plastic. Uh-oh. I look at my plugged in US to see the stepdown gently pouring out acrid thick black smoke.
I don't like to think what would have happend if I hadn't come back and had left the Stepdown smoking there for about 10 minutes. Needless to say I quickly pulled out the plug and dragged the smoking stepdown by the plug out into the garden. I pulled it apart a little later and found some soldering had come apart and the heat had caused some labelling and part of the plastic coating to melt.
Hopefully, my US cube is ok. A horrible smell in my hair and clothes and throughout the house and a slightly burnt carpet are all it caused, but it makes you think, and I never thought I'd say this about Freeloader but it does have its good sides after all..
http://uk.special.reserve.co.uk/search/
standard.php?keywords=freeloader
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A lazy saturday afternoon home alone with my new Logic3 speakers plugged into the big 32" flatscreen telly. I'm sitting at home, half asleep due to the 2 and a half hours of sleep I had got last night.
I thought as well I might try out all my new stuff I got yesterday and the speakers are brilliant, the gba link cable is working and I'm playing NES Balloon Fight on my GBA. Get bored of it, so plug in my US cube to download a different NES game from Animal Crossing to play. Finally my Stepdown is behaving itself and it is fixed (with rubber bands no less :D). The fools at Goblin delivered it broken with a part of it hanging out. And they didnt include the link cable in the bundle.. so I've had to fork out for a separate on (grumble..)
Anyways, I plug the Cube in, but nothing comes on. Perplexed, I blearily stare at the tangle of wires behind the telly of the lamp, arial, DVD/Video players, computer, printer, speakers, 2 cubes, and fairy lights and try to puzzle out why the cube hasnt come on...
I extract the Cube and it's wires, stepdown and powerpack from the back of the telly and plug it in a different plug. Still doesnt work. Wander off for a drink and return to put back my wavebird which I had put in my pocket while looking at Cube. I suddenly smell.. burning plastic. Uh-oh. I look at my plugged in US to see the stepdown gently pouring out acrid thick black smoke.
I don't like to think what would have happend if I hadn't come back and had left the Stepdown smoking there for about 10 minutes. Needless to say I quickly pulled out the plug and dragged the smoking stepdown by the plug out into the garden. I pulled it apart a little later and found some soldering had come apart and the heat had caused some labelling and part of the plastic coating to melt.
Hopefully, my US cube is ok. A horrible smell in my hair and clothes and throughout the house and a slightly burnt carpet are all it caused, but it makes you think, and I never thought I'd say this about Freeloader but it does have its good sides after all..
http://uk.special.reserve.co.uk/search/
standard.php?keywords=freeloader
I thought as well I might try out all my new stuff I got yesterday and the speakers are brilliant, the gba link cable is working and I'm playing NES Balloon Fight on my GBA. Get bored of it, so plug in my US cube to download a different NES game from Animal Crossing to play. Finally my Stepdown is behaving itself and it is fixed (with rubber bands no less :D). The fools at Goblin delivered it broken with a part of it hanging out. And they didnt include the link cable in the bundle.. so I've had to fork out for a separate on (grumble..)
Anyways, I plug the Cube in, but nothing comes on. Perplexed, I blearily stare at the tangle of wires behind the telly of the lamp, arial, DVD/Video players, computer, printer, speakers, 2 cubes, and fairy lights and try to puzzle out why the cube hasnt come on...
I extract the Cube and it's wires, stepdown and powerpack from the back of the telly and plug it in a different plug. Still doesnt work. Wander off for a drink and return to put back my wavebird which I had put in my pocket while looking at Cube. I suddenly smell.. burning plastic. Uh-oh. I look at my plugged in US to see the stepdown gently pouring out acrid thick black smoke.
I don't like to think what would have happend if I hadn't come back and had left the Stepdown smoking there for about 10 minutes. Needless to say I quickly pulled out the plug and dragged the smoking stepdown by the plug out into the garden. I pulled it apart a little later and found some soldering had come apart and the heat had caused some labelling and part of the plastic coating to melt.
Hopefully, my US cube is ok. A horrible smell in my hair and clothes and throughout the house and a slightly burnt carpet are all it caused, but it makes you think, and I never thought I'd say this about Freeloader but it does have its good sides after all..
http://uk.special.reserve.co.uk/search/
standard.php?keywords=freeloader
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