Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, Gene, I can think of one possibility. "Discriminator" implies receiving FM, doesn't it? If the unit was a multimode receiver, perhaps the customer "slope-tuned" a strong FM signal in the AM mode for the first 40 hours without realizing it. Then he, or someone else found the mode switch in the wrong position, moved it to FM, and "all of a sudden" it didn't work. Or there was a hairline wire strand across the mode switch that enabled the AM detector when the switch was set to FM. Then it fell off. (Please note that I didn't mention a certain female film director even once. Except to note that, like Generalissimo Fransisco Franco, she is still dead.) --Peter Gene Duprey wrote: > I'd say this is the normal teething problems that you see from > any company when they bring out a new product. Yes, they should not > happened, but they do. > I remember an incident with my company 32 years ago, we received a > discriminator back from a customer who complained the item had failed > after only 40 hours of operation. We took the part apart, and found > absolutely ZERO components inside! This was a solder sealed unit, which > had gone through 20 inspections before and after assembly, 2 uning > operations and 3 test cycles, the last being witnessed by a customer > rep, prior to being shipped to the customer. Who, by the way said it > had worked for 40 hours. Figure that one out.