ytd my starhub digital set top box in the living room "went up the lorry"... near the evening somemore... called the customer service they said they could only come n fix 2day evening 4-6pm...
there was power to the set top box... only there's no picture n there's this yellow LED above the msg icon on the set top... so i check the set top box in my room... everything was ok... then i decided to bring the set top in my room to the living room... cus my parents n bro would be watching tv... i still got my PC so i'm ok without tv for 1 nite...
when i try to use the spoil set top box in my room... it suddenly give out a spark where the power cord was attached to... i check the fuse in the plug, the fuse blew... so i use the power cord from the gd set top box n try on the spoil 1... same tingy, the fuse of the cord blew... then i had 1 gd set top box n 1 spoil set top box... both with spoil power cord...
so farking sian loh... n the best tingy is, they r not using normal 13Amp fuse... instead they r using 3Amp fuse... so i went down to the shops to check if they sell 3Amp fuse... all said they only haf 13Amp fuses...
then i decided to go all the way to people's park centre to get the fuses... there's 1 shop on the 3rd flr sell all sorts of electronic stuffs... i bought some fuses there while working for fuji xerox lol... it was evening time n everyone was rushing into the mrt stations... i alighted at raffles place mrt... cus i dont wanna switch trains... so i walked from there to chinatown...
reach liaoz the shop told me they only got 5Amp left... i was tinking ok lah not tat much diff... so bought 5 for $1... came home to try n it worked... but i still dont feel rite so checked the internet to see if its ok to use a 5Amp fuse instead of a 3Amp fuse... haha i was making a terrible mistake by using a 5Amp fuse loh... i am risking the gd set top box from burning up if there was a short... so i took it out n 2nite no starhub channels for the family... only normal sg channels lol...
then this morning i went down to sim lim tower to get 3Amp fuses... reason becus i can't wait till the technician come in the evening... n i dont wanna try to explain to the technician how come 1 set top box spoil n 2 power cords fuse blow... plus if the fuses were to blow again in the future i can just replace them...
i know i can just go down to the starhub customer centre to make 1 to 1 exchange if the tings spoil... but travel down with the set top box abit troublesome... lol
so i bought 6x 3Amp fuses at sim lim tower just now... but each of the fuses cost $0.80 loh... so expensive... 6 means $4.80 loh hai~... oso finally got a blower, those use to blow away dusts... it cost $5.60 sia... i should've kept the 1 fuji xerox gave me... sian...
now just gotta wait for the starhub guys to come n fix my set top box...
3Amp fuse
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