Safety: RE: [R-390] Now *this* is a really nifty idea...

[Roy Morgan]

On Jan 4, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Robert Nickels wrote:

> .. was sent to talk to a senior ME ..I pointed out a problem in a  
> prototype housing, ...
> It was my pleasure a few days later to take him a prototype that  
> couldn't be put together so he could *think* up an ECO to fix it!

I worked at Teradyne, Inc, still the leading maker of automatic test  
equipment, in the discrete component test division.  We were a bit  
baffled about why FET's used at the point in the circuit where voltage  
tests were made were failing from time to time.  The senior design  
engineer won my admiration when he commented, " Maybe we just don't  
yet know how to protect FETs in that sort of circuit."

I'd love to own a T-317 from that time (1970's) with or without  my  
initials in it from final system test.

Roy

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