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Article #816Re: Rigol caught with their pants down! (DS1052E Oscilloscope)
From: RFI-EMI-GUY
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:46
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:46
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Joerg wrote: > Joel Koltner wrote: >> "John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in >> message >>> Sure. Life is risky. Given a product with 200 different parts, two of >>> which are overstressed, there's probably more risk that one of the 198 >>> other parts will be EOL'd. >> >> Have you ever been caught in the situation of one of your >> over-stressed parts being changed by the manufacturer in such a way so >> as to render it unsuitable for your needs? >> > > Happened to another engineer: Bought tons of 5% capacitors for > production, went into Hilbert shifters. They always hand-picked the 1% > parts out of this lot and used the rest for jelly-bean stuffing. One > balmy summer day they found the first shipment that had a hole smack in > the middle of the Gaussian tolerance curve. Obviously someone had > detected a business opprotunity ... whoops. > Sure production ends on the part and then they look in the stockroom and find a dusty box of parts, where did they come from? Probably someone else hand picked parts and sent the rest back for restock! -- Joe Leikhim K4SAT "The RFI-EMI-GUY"� "Use only Genuine Interocitor Parts" Tom Servo ;-P
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