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We get a lot of power dips, and power surges in our house, the supply is terrible - light bulbs blow (sometimes literally) on a regular basis, the average lifespan is in weeks, not months. The most recent event saw the power go off for about a second, but my pie factory did not come back on. I tried switching it off, then back on, but it still would not come back on. I opened up the "no user serviceable parts" power supply, and there IS a fuse (I cant stand it when companies like barcrest LIE about things like that, ok the average user should not poke around inside a switched mode psu unless they want to die, but saying there are no user servicable parts means nothing is fixable, or replaceable like a fuse is... Obviously there is a user serviceable part, if the user knows what they are doing. Why didnt they make the fuse accessible from the outside? Cheapskates thats why... Nothing is built like it used to be these days, its a throw-away society.)

Sadly the fuse was fine, so I put the psu back together, and plugged it back in, and the machine worked now. So it looks like they have a electronic fuse, like computer switch modes have, if you short one of them out, it shuts down, and refuses to come back on for a while.