Jami;
Alexis is competent enough to ask the right questions. Most of the
people I have dealt with consider the other person to be competent until
proven otherwise. From your posting I can see that you have not had the
same experience. I have worked in situations where I had to prove my
competence. I did not enjoy those jobs very much. Most board designers
do not have advanced degrees in electrical engineering nor are they
clairvoyant. In my viewpoint it is a waste of an engineer's time to be
laying out boards. The engineer should be reviewing the layout but
unless he is at the low end of the salary scale it is not cost effective
for him to do layout.
PS I don't need to brag, I have witnesses.
Tom Garman
PCB Designer
330-575-1636
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-----Original Message-----
From: DesignerCouncil [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of JaMi Smith
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 3:00 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [DC] Core thickness/emissions
Eric,
Unfortunately, it is not a joke.
I was just about to say that you obviously do not have any concept of
what emissions testing is all about, either practically or legally, but
then I looked at your email address and realized that you really do
understand what is going on here, and appear to just be making light of
it.
It is not just a question of simply radiating interfering signals when
you are dealing with a cell phone company that makes an RF Transmitter
that people hold up to their heads.
It also appears that you may have never spent long hours in emissions
testing, trying to qualify a design, only to have to redesign it and
requalify it after you have made a large production run that need to be
scrapped, just because of some stupid idiot like the guy at the board
house in this particular case, who probably just didn't have the right
material in stock, or worse yet, had some extra material he just wanted
to get rid of. This guy really does need to be called on the carpet.
I don't want this idiot making any boards for me, and I really don't
think that you want him making any boards for you.
I want to know just who he is and who he works for, so that I do not
make the mistake of sending him any business.
This kind of incompetence is a problem in our industry, and we will
never correct it by ignoring it or sugar coating it.
Yes, incompetence is the correct word.
I am sorry if I am calling a spade a spade.
Why am I making an issue out of this? Because the average designer does
not know what a monumental blunder something like this is.
This is important, and it is important that anyone who is out there
designing boards knows that it is important, even if he does not totally
understand it.
That's why it should not be sugar coated.
That's why I am being so polite.
I am sorry if you are offended, but once again, this is not a joke.
JaMi
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----- Original Message -----
From: Eric <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Bonatti
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [DC] Core thickness/emissions
Oh, come on JaMi, don't sugar-coat it. Tell us like you really feel.
Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: JaMi <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Smith
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Friday, 06 June 2003 19:26
Subject: Re: [DC] Core thickness/emissions
The quick answer is: Yes! Absolutely! Unquestionably!
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