2 Jun
2006
2 Jun
'06
5:34 p.m.
On Friday 02 June 2006 07:24 pm, Tony Duell wrote:
Not that I ever screwed around with SMD, but yeah, troubleshooting is what
takes the time. Too bad it was such a PITA when I repaired things for a
living to get the customers to understand that sometimes...
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Tony, I am not
telling you what you enjoy or don't. I was simply
commenting on your many many statements that troubleshooting to a
component level is your belief in the right way to do things. If you feel
I was
I beleie you can't know you've cured a fault unless you know what the
fault wss (just having the fault go away is not good enough!). And the
only way to know where the fault is is to trace it to the component. At
which point you might as well do component level repair (_finding_ the
fault is what takes the time, replacing a component, even a 100+ pin SMD
chip, is a lot quicker).