Wow... Jeff,
I am impressed... Your 'prose' nearly competes with Dewey's puns on
TechNet...(he is quite the 'pun celebrity' over there)
Actually Steve... I think you would enjoy designing boards. After all you
have seen and know about manufacturing you would be a great asset to a
company as a designer... Check into the IPC DC CID program and see if it
appeals to you.
The point I think Jeff was making is that PCB designers are pretty much
central to the process of product development and manufacturing because
every thing they touch has an affect on someone else's requirements or
needs. It is a challenge to keep up with all the different aspects of PCB
design, 'constant learning' is a mode I have come to realize is essential to
surviving in this industry. You need to understand a lot of other people's
jobs and needs in order to design a board that can perform and still fit in
the enclosure, not over heat, survive vibration, meet the electrical
requirements and still be able to be manufactured, built and tested and
serviced...at a profit... heheh... (can't forget the business aspect of
this).
Thanks to you and others I have learned a great deal from being subscribed
to TechNet... and your comments and picture gallery service are very much
appreciated.
Best regards,
Bill Brooks
PCB Design Engineer, C.I.D.+
Tel: (760)597-1500 Fax: (760)597-1510
Datron World Communications, Inc.
Vista, California
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Seeger [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:19 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [DC] [DC] Why do people "lurk" w/o participating?
stephen gregory wrote:
>> snip >
>I'm subscribed to the designer council and read every email just to see if
I can learn something about why you guys do the things you do to make my
life miserable (GRIN). Just kidding...
>
It's true, Steve, misery only flows downhill. The only question is
whether the it accumulates on the way or sticks to those handing it
on downstream.
>
>Seriously, I hope to learn something when I read posts from this forum. If
I can contribute, I do. Most of the stuff that's talked about is over my
head a lot of the time. I secretly would like to become a designer one day,
shhh...don't tell anybody. Maybe sometime in the future when I get tired of
working on the manufacturing floor.
>
Don't do it! Our world is one of raining bits and insane goals!
Warning, too many conflicting priorities! Ones and zeros and uV and
kV and pF and nH and pS and and in^2 and X-Y-Z don't really mix well,
it takes an awful lot of shaking! You must bend, fold, spindle and
mutilate! Repeatedly!
Blind vias get into your eye patterns and make you not see the ESD
coming. The boiler plate rusts out and must be replaced, but you
never get the moisture levels to a level that's acceptable to change
it. And when you zoom out it looks like it did 30 years ago, but
with more colors - and it wasn't that rancid 3am coffee that did it,
honest officer!
Just when everything's tristated, the near-field is quiet, and you
can just about see your reflections in the PLLs, the marketing folks
will want a different number of ports on a different form factor in
a different use environment, but you can save the periods from the
ends of the sentences in the original specs, right?
Sorry folks - I had a good day yesterday. Doesn't happen often.
--
Jeff Seeger Applied CAD Knowledge Inc
Chief Technical Officer Tyngsboro, MA 01879
jseeger "at" appliedcad "dot" com 978 649 9800
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