Re: Had a similar experience but with the light itself
Back in the days of Umatic professional video cassette recorders (in the broadcast world), it was common for kind people to offer to 'help' junior to fix one by making sure there was a nice bright bench light shining into the works.
There are a surprising number of IR sensors to tell the mechanism where it is, and quite fascinating things happen when they get confused...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
