[TechAssist] Re: Modern test equipment VS Old brew equipment
- From: "Wayne Vanaman" <Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:20:39 -0500
Test equipment, as with any other tool, can only do what it was built to do.
When you start have go/no-go testing you will have problems. As an example:
The CTC19x ihvts-the Sencore ringers will almost always say "good". At
least they give you a ring count. With that in mind, ring some new ones and
see what they do. The bad IHVTs may ring 40+, but that is not "good", they
need to be 55+.
Any piece of test equipment requires a little, or lot, of knowledge by the
user. Interpretting the measured results/test require more than just
reading "good" or "bad" on an instruments face.
Wayne Vanaman
Omega Electronics
6904 W Fairfield Dr
Pensacola, Fl. 32506-3310
850-456-5995 voice
850-458-6369 fax
Mailto:Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
WWW.PensacolaTVRepair.Com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill S" <billans@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 2:11 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Modern test equipment VS Old brew equipment
>
> Hi all;
> Well, it has finally happend; I have been seeing more and more a reliance
> upon the so called fancy test equipment that "we" (including me) have
spent
> thousands of dollars upon and so many of us have relied upon only to find
> out that some of the stuff we are working on will not 'test' out on this
> equipment.
> For an example. In today's post by Jerry in respect to a yoke problem and
> the ringing of the vertical section. If you look earlier in the post you
> will see that one tech sent back to sencore his ringer because it would
not
> ring correctly and sencore said there was no problem. Of course sencore
> would not suggest a "patch" or a kit to allow the yoke to be rung
correctly.
>
> Folks; Are there any of you that have made a home brew test equipment
that
> seems to work so much better; Like a good curve tracer, or a good ringer,
> and or anything that would be pertinent to today's stuff that we are
working
> on.
>
> This may sound totally ridiculous, but I found that if I have a security
> camera on with a b&w monitor and I aim the remote at the camera, I am able
> to see the infrared send out, I can see the intensity, I can see if its
> flashing the right way and it impresses the dickens out of the customer to
> know for sure that their remote is working.
>
> My two bits for today.
>
> Bill Sorensen
> New Life Video & Audio
> billans@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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