[Elecraft] If it plugs in, then it should work

[Phil Wheeler]

Then I sure hope no one idly plugs a water hose in 
the the fuel filler port of my car!

I guess all those auto manufacturers need to 
change the designs to prevent that ignorance, too.

Perhaps the K2 is just too challenging (for some) :-)

Phil W7OX

On 8/23/15 6:32 AM, Dauer, Edward wrote:
> Indeed it should work if it plugs in AND if it looks the same, or at least
> it shouldn¹t cause any serious harm.  In other industries where safety is
> at issue that is a firmly enforced rule.  Examples, from two industries
> with which I have worked:  Many lives have been saved since general
> aviation airframe manufacturers sized fuel filler ports, or required
> retrofit port restrictors, so that turbine fuel physically could not be
> loaded into tanks feeding a gasoline engine.  Line boys, as they¹re
> called, are no more or less cautious than the rest of us, but the theme is
> that people make mistakes so the systems in which they work should be
> engineered to prevent those mistakes or to prevent them from doing any
> harm.  Ditto in medicine.  Patient safety was significantly advanced when
> the oxygen and the anesthetic gas fittings were made different enough that
> oxygen couldn¹t come from anything but the oxygen supply (e.g.
> noninterchangeable screw threads).  Patient safety gurus have also
> insisted that wrist bands used in every hospital everywhere not only have
> standard language, but also standard colors so that, in a rush, a band
> announcing an allergy (red) couldn¹t be confused for a DNR (purple) even
> though the words on each are clear.  And crash carts should be in exactly
> the same place in every hospital ward.  Until very recently some surgeons
> marked an X on a limb to mean cut this side, while others marked it to
> mean don¹t cut this side.  You can guess about the injuries which that
> lack of a standard system caused.  I¹ll wager the same is true in other
> industries where the consequences of human error can be significant.  I
> don¹t know enough about electrical engineering to offer any specific
> suggestions; but as a starting point, IMHO: if it fits, it should work.
>
> Ted, KN1CBR