Let's start of with the DIY repair win! I had a really good pair of Sony MDR-V500 headphones that I loved very much until the little plastic hinge thing that holds one of the speaker broke. I kept the broken pair in a drawer at work and forgot about it for a couple months until a coworker had the same thing happen to an exact same model of headphones. He was about to throw them away and I asked him if I could take his broken headphones to see if I could repair it and he said sure. I took both headphones home and went to work, salvaging one part from one of the headphone to put it on the other one. It ended being way more easy than I had imagined and the result is a working pair of headphones that looks like nothing ever happened!
I uploaded a quick album of the taking apart and repairing process here :
http://imgur.com/a/QRi3b but here's the important part :
Broken :
Not broken anymore! ->
VICTORY!
So that was a pretty good day considering this pair of headphones is worth 100$ on amazon, I was pretty pumped up and decided to attack something else that I had been slacking on : changing the bathroom fan timer. Should be pretty damn easy but my bathroom fan is actually just a timer to tell my heat exchange ventilator to turn to maximum power for 20 minutes. It's a new condo that I bought last year and I don't know a lot about heat exchange ventilators other than it moves air around and that's what my bathroom fan is hooked on. I thought the switch on the wall was a normal switch like you could install for any light or fan, but apparently it's different.
Here's what's currently installed :
http://i.imgur.com/VqNTGrS.jpg back and
http://i.imgur.com/onN7toD.jpg front
I tried to install a standard 2-wire light/fan timer and after turning the breaker back on, it wouldn't do anything at all :
http://i.imgur.com/ze4v1xN.jpgI don't know if I need to buy a special timer switch for my unit and I tried looking at the manual and couldn't find anything. I found the manual online here :
http://ecomfort.com/PDF_files/Fantech/vhr704r_installation_manual.pdf and what I have installed is on page 12 called the 20-minute timer. On page 14 there's an electrical connection guide that shows that there's only two wires that connect the timer and that's it. That's all the info I could get. Does anyone have any idea why a normal light/fan timer wouldn't work in that case? I specifically bought one that was 2-wire and didn't need a neutral wire so I don't know why it's not working.