Replacing failed powersupplies on qbus PDP-11s

[Dave McGuire]

On Feb 2, 2009, at 3:57 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
>> Again, that's all very well if you're doing something sufficiently
>> complex and well-defined.  If you are investigating the effect of
>> putting what is basically a tuned circuit across the supply to a
>> non-linear load, where a) it's simple enough to build, and b) it's  
>> not
>> clearly defined enough to model, then you're far better just  
>> warming up
>> the soldering iron and breaking out the 'scope.
>
> Until the boss sees that you screwed around in the lab for an hour or
> two getting all the parts and building the test circuit, rather than
> spend fifteen minutes at your workstation in your cube, just to get
> the same results.

   Heh...I think you have those time estimates reversed.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL