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Article #817Re: Rigol caught with their pants down! (DS1052E Oscilloscope)
From: Joerg
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:51
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:51
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RFI-EMI-GUY wrote: > 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! > They couldn't be that brazen unless they'd have gone to great lengths such as re-belting them all. Because the good ones weren't all in front section. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
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X-Google-Thread: a5a6238865,22f414e979f56ad3 X-Google-Attributes: gida5a6238865,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!news.netcologne.de!newsfeed-fusi2.netcologne.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Joerg <invalid@invalid.invalid> Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,aus.electronics Subject: Re: Rigol caught with their pants down! (DS1052E Oscilloscope) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:51:59 -0700 Organization: Consultant Lines: 38 Message-ID: <7ck786F284eu0U1@mid.individual.net> References: <9ZD8m.24080$Qg6.2130@newsfe14.iad> <18i665p468as493tdqltq8ms0iqqm9c34n@4ax.com> <NJM8m.24727$FP2.3819@newsfe05.iad> <ao8965pf3deci7kkolf3b41oag5b4e9dv2@4ax.com> <4a64ac0d$0$5646$9a6e19ea@unlimited.newshosting.com> <sol96518355pg5afi39erpbkm5iuo2iaig@4ax.com> <VK49m.395119$4p1.312804@en-nntp-03.dc1.easynews.com> <7ck4uhF26t65fU1@mid.individual.net> <4a64e5c6$0$5647$9a6e19ea@unlimited.newshosting.com> Reply-To: news@analogconsultants.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net JLeZamEzt1obJR+enFWFWQPyXDIOr2HJlQcqhLsVO8LUqvZzMa Cancel-Lock: sha1:npkLp5yBUxwu+CrvwjwmphRwa5Y= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <4a64e5c6$0$5647$9a6e19ea@unlimited.newshosting.com>