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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:54:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael LaFleur <mike.lafleur@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Is common sense dead  (rant mode on)
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You don't have to test it, your supplier does.

I know it can be a pain. Cost some money and time.

But, hell, it's for an airplane. Be proactive, not
reactive.

Mike LaFleur (working on UEGO)

--- Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Michael LaFleur wrote:
> 
> >There's no reason at all a one men operation
> couldn't
> >practice the same methods and processes. Build a
> >tester load box. Write some test code for the
> module
> >to exercise the inputs and outputs. PC controlled
> >instrumentation is not that expensive. Used
> >thermochambers are cheap at auctions. I've seen big
> >ones go for $500 - $1000. EMC is trickier, but it
> can
> >be done. Get a spectrum analyzer. 
> >  
> >
> 
> If I have to spend $500 - $1000, then take the time
> to design an 
> experiment, then build a test box and write some
> code for every part of 
> my build, it will never get built.  In another post,
> you say that you 
> meant this to apply only to manufacturers.  Problem
> is that that WE are 
> the manufacturers of our airplanes (at least that's
> what the FAA says).  
> I have a stack of 'experiments' sitting on the
> bench, that have been 
> sitting there for "a long time", and I expect that
> they'll be there a 
> while yet.  The problem is that every time I think
> about performing an 
> experiment, building an actual airplane gets in the
> way.  It has been 
> like this for over three years now.  The experiments
> that do get 
> performed are ones that will have an immediate
> impact on the system 
> currently under construction, and then only if there
> is no other way to 
> get the data and someone else hasn't performed it.
> 
> But like you said, your only building bulkheads
> right now.  After you've 
> been at it a while you'll see that thinking about an
> experiment takes a 
> lot less time than actually doing it. 
> 
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