[Milsurplus] R-390.... smoke and other hazards

[mikea]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 08:29:51PM -0800, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> On 6 Feb 2016 at 10:32, Pete Williams wrote:
> 
> > I've found   where fuses  blow  and/or smoke is  emitted  and  you  can't 
> > see  immediately   from  whence it  came , judicious  use of  ones'  Mk  1 
> > nostril---no power on of  course,- is a     good pointer to the  seat of the
> > disaster. Pete  VK3IZ 
> 
> Indeed!!! :-)

One of my tech school instructors observed, after a component failure other
than the one that intentionally broken, that smoke was a valuable problem
determination tool.

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin