18 Aug
2015
18 Aug
'15
4:09 a.m.
One thing
though. No piece of test gear will do more than provide evidence of
what the circuit is doing. It will not tell you 'U38 is faulty' or whatever.
In principle that was where HP was trying to go with signature
analysis back in the 1970s. The problem has since been solved by making the entire product a single FRU (Field
Replaceable Unit).
:-(
"He fixes radios by THINKING!"
- Someone who had a young Richard Feynman fix his radio,
as quoted in his autobiography _Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
(Adventures of a Curious Character)_
When I first read that, _my_ first thought was 'Is there any other way to fix
radios?'
-tony