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Stuart Longland (VK4MSL) on Nostr: The plot thickens… so I went to make a cup of tea… turn the kettle on. Nothing. ...

The plot thickens… so I went to make a cup of tea… turn the kettle on. Nothing.

No life out of the kettle. Glance over at the microwave oven, it's dead too.

Unplug kettle, move it over to the other side of the kitchen, plug it in… turn it on… off it goes. Oookay, all of GP1 is dead. Check the breaker.

The breaker of course tripped when the fridge went blam. Still plugged in, I try resetting the breaker, it stays closed, so a transient fault… I go upstairs… LEDs on the fridge controller are illuminated, but no fridge lights.

I'd say the thing that went bang is the PSU for running the fridge lighting, the fridge compressor controller still works. We can probably live with that… crisis averted.

Not sure what the "noise" is on GP1's signature, but it looks like the compressor is doing something, the fridge seems to be retaining the cold.