1 Apr
2005
1 Apr
'05
1:37 a.m.
In message <20050401002020.H740 at localhost>
Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> wrote:
Man, there's hundreds of those little blue
bastards in this
machine. I hope future shorts are so benign. Gulp.
Probably worth keeping Murphy's Laws in mind - "if something can go wrong, it
will" and "if a component fails, it will take the most expensive or hardest
to replace part with it".
There's also Philpem's Law (<very big grin>): If you slip with a test
probe,
that probe will either short out the most expensive chip on the board, or put
a gouge into a multilayer PCB.
Anyway, I'd replace them if they had a high failure rate, if only to reduce
the likelihood of them taking something with them when they do pack up.
Later.
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