my NAS died a couple of days ago with zero sign of life.

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

wiggling the connector around does nothing though. I see no fluctuation on the multimeter at all and, no matter how I apply pressure to either end, the old PSU (which works fine, so sadly I bought a new PSU for £120 for no reason) will not power on with this cable. extremely bizarre.

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

wait it gets EVEN MORE CURSED

I grabbed a BS1363 (UK plug) to IEC cable. I plugged the problematic IEC-IEC cable into it. then I grabbed another known-good IEC-IEC and plugged it into that. so I have a chain of BS1363-IEC, IEC-IEC (bad), IEC-IEC (good).

I get 230V at the output.

I plug it into the old PSU.

it will not power on.

CABLE'S HAUNTED

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@gsuberland You were around for the thread where I discovered that ghost voltages are a thing, right?

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

@ryanc ????

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@gsuberland There was a wire in my wall with something like 143V on it, yet when I grounded it with kynar wire the kynar wire survived.

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

@ryanc oh right yeah you get weird floating shit in old house wires

Richard "mtfnpy" Harman

@ryanc @gsuberland that reminds me getting 9vAC on a 240vAC line for an air conditioner.

Me: "This is wrong. This is impossibly wrong. Time to replace this wire."

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@gsuberland It's not even old, lolsob

John Timaeus

@ryanc

I had a 1920s house (US, so 110v standard) that would put 220 to the light over the stove if you turned on the garbage disposal while the microwave was running. Burned out a lot of incandescent bulbs. Made the first CFL I put in explode at the base.

There were also outlets with constant 110 between neutral and ground, 220 between live and ground.

I spent a lot on wire for that place.

@gsuberland

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@johntimaeus @gsuberland I had the main house completely gutted. Previous owner DIY'd the workshop, and the garden office is a prefab thing that for some reason has wiring with nonstandard color.