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Appreciation post: a chat with a retired tech about the old test gear
I was helping my old neighbor, a guy who worked on 727s back in the day, clean out his garage. He pointed to a huge, dusty rack of analog test equipment and said, 'We had to know the signal path, not just read a code.' It made me realize how much we rely on the box telling us the fault now. I spent the next week actually tracing a comms issue on a G280 instead of just swapping the LRU. Has anyone else found value in going back to the basics like that?
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harperg7616d ago
Oh man, I tried tracing a signal once and my own multimeter leads confused me. Felt like I was the problem the whole time.
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