Know your fuse

Several months back there was a night of very heavy lightning. It was in the middle of the night so no one had cared to get out of bed to disconnect the telephone line even though it had woken us up. In the morning we found the telephones were not working. I checked the router. It didn’t show any sign of damage. However it was not working. We called SLT. They arrived and found out that the surge arrester had blown out and protected the telephone and the router. Look how they replaced the fuses.

Nope, they didn’t replace the fuses because they didn’t have any new ones in their van. So they did this. I told them if you don’t replace this fuses with proper ones, next time you will have to replace my telephone and my router. Then the technician called his supervisor and had a bit of an argument in the van. Finally they used a smaller wire and found one working fuse. Even this is not perfect. You have to replace the tiny wire with a proper fuse.




So guys, next time SLT repairs your telephony system, just check whether they have done it right. Prevention is better than taking action after everything has happened.

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