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Sherlock Ohms: The Singing Telephone Switch

 

Sherlock Ohms: The Singing Telephone Switch - RF Cafe WebsiteThis adventure of Sherlock Ohms is useful to read because it demonstrates the importance of finding the root cause of and truly correcting a problem rather than stopping when a lesser solution that is merely a 'band aid' type cure would be easier. The less desirable action would have been to de-rate the number of circuits that could be serviced by each system since it was initially discovered that the problem only occurred when the board count went above a certain critical count. Fortunately for the manufacturer, Mr. Davies kept on the trail and hunted down the true source of oscillations and implemented a very simple fix.

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- The Singing Telephone Switch 

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Posted  October 22, 2014

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