Good Repair Juju

I was the recipient of some good repair juju earlier this week, and it feels like I need to express my thanks to the universe for how easy and cheap this turned out to be. 

John was in the basement doing something manly and came up to ask me how to reset the water softener. It's a bit finicky, losing all of its programmed settings every time the electricity even flickers. It's always been my job to reset things (not difficult, especially because I have all the settings written down in the manual on the appropriate page), so I sighed, put down my knitting, and trudged down to the basement.

Except the water softener didn't have any power so simply resetting it wasn't an option. We do have hard water and mainly need the water softener because of our oil burner furnace. It provides both heat and hot water and there is some sort of magical, expensive heating element inside. If the heating element is exposed to hard water for any length of time, it gets coated in mineral scale, doesn't work, and needs to be replaced. I've never seen this mysterious part but we did have to replace it when we first moved in because the older woman that was living here hadn't been able to lift the 40-pound bags of salt to refill the water softener for a long time.

John went to get his multi-meter and I got to see how to test the electrical output from the end that plugged into the water softener. There was no output, so John figured that we could order a new power supply from Amazon for $21.98, have it in two days, and be back in business softening water. 

So that's what we did, and it worked perfectly! I was even able to look it up on Amazon with the old part number and find just what we needed. I'm very grateful that this repair was only $21.98 and easy enough for me to do. 

Here's wishing that you all experience good repair juju in whatever needs to be repaired in your lives!