Reading about the experience of Wagner at the RadioShack, reminds me
about a couple of
instances I had during my collage days with classmates and with my
engineers now.

Instance 1.

Classmate 1 : Ravi, what would be the probable qustions that would come
in the test.
Me : Pin outs of a transistors,
Classmate 1 : Studied
Me : Type of flipflops
Classmate 1 : Tell me.
Me : J K, T type, D type, Q type
Classmate 2 : What is Q type ?
Me : Gave him some weird long truth table and he mugged it up :-)
Classmate 1 : Any more ?
Me : Yes, do you know the polarity of a resistor ?
Classmate 1 : Yeh, the gold band is the cathode
We all had a good laugh :-)

Instance 2

I asked my engineer to rig up a TRIAC as per the circuit diagram.

Me : Have you connected the phase to MT1
Eng : Yes sir
Me : Have you connected the MT2 to load
Eng : Yes sir
Me : Have you connected the load to neutral
Eng : Yes sir
Me : Have you shorted the phase and neutral.
Eng : Yes sir....... NO sir ( and it strikes him )

Instance 3

We had some transformers delivered and had to test them.  I asked one of
my enginners to
test the transformers and after a couple of minutes the fuse on the
incomming line blew.

Me : What happened ?
Eng : I was testing the transformers and the fuse blew.
Me : How did you test them ?
Eng : I connected the primary of the voltage transformer to the mains
230 V input and measured the voltage at the
secondary.
Me : How did you test the current transformers ?
Eng : The same way............

Well thats life in the electronics field :-)

Pailoor

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