That was the plan. Just go into you best blue-collar technobabble till she lets you up.
'Well, basically it's that the secondary transistor in the primary negative feedback loop's gone, probably someone overloaded it when they tried plugging in an NSD, that's non-standard device by the way, but that doesn't usually happen with proper installation, I can tell you, with how those lights are I can see you've had some real cowboys in, probably didn't even disable the main breaker 'fore they started messing about with soldering irons. I tell you what, if you'd seen the number of improperly wired electronic super-circuits I had, it's enough to make you weep, it really is...