Re: hello NASA, using the old junk box?


> >Redesigning any of the consumer products I work with to, say, change
> >one transistor type, is a minimum cost of six to nine months and
> >$100,000 of direct costs in engineering, QA testing, FCC
>
> That is just so depressing

So you'll be happy this winter to see your house burned down and family
suffocated because the replacement transistor I put in your wireless
smoke detector didn't work correctly at low temperatures and the Tx
frequency was off by 2MHz?

I can tell you I won't be happy to see my signature on the multimillion
dollar recall (and lawsuits) that this little oops would generate.

For some industries, $100,000 and 9 months in testing really doesn't
seem like much after all, does it?

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