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Ice-Tea:
I'm not entirely convinced you need a 500$ consultant to *start* figuring this out. You need a decent engineer that can figure out if FW is loaded/needs to be loaded, check power supplies, check communication, whatever. Perhaps somewhere down to the road  you may need an expert, but not for the direction finding.

In addition, it has nothing to do with outsourcing to chinese manufacturers. It has to do with bad documentation and specification.

AndyC_772:

--- Quote from: jonpaul on February 26, 2021, 12:05:18 pm ---Hello Mr POE: If you have a serious issue that involves production boards, forums may not solve. A profession approach is more effective.

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The two are not mutually exclusive!

In any case, hiring a competent engineer with all the necessary skills and experience does not, I guarantee, cost anywhere near $300-$600/hr.

jonpaul:
Hi: An normal engineer wont untangle this.

What do you pay for a good lawyer or CPA hourly rate to untangle legal or tax problems?


A consultant is different, normally a specialist.


Just my experience!

Bon Chance,

Jon

nctnico:

--- Quote from: AndyC_772 on February 26, 2021, 02:03:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: jonpaul on February 26, 2021, 12:05:18 pm ---Hello Mr POE: If you have a serious issue that involves production boards, forums may not solve. A profession approach is more effective.

--- End quote ---

The two are not mutually exclusive!

In any case, hiring a competent engineer with all the necessary skills and experience does not, I guarantee, cost anywhere near $300-$600/hr.

--- End quote ---
I agree. An engineer with experience in designing & troubleshooting high speed designs should be able to solve the problem in a couple of days at most and it is not going to cost anywhere near that amount per hour (I wish though... could retire early if people would pay me that).

Poe:
Sorry it took so long to reply.

I'm in a completely different department/state than the team responsible for this assembly.  This was just dumped in my lap when the last engineer quit.  Management said there was no programming required, but that very well might be the problem.  My location just handles documentation so we don't have equipment to troubleshoot.

We have no problem sending the boards and test fixture out to be analyzed.  There are about one thousand assemblies failing test, so we can spare a few.

The test isn't very descriptive when something fails and I haven't seen it yet so I can't be more descriptive right now unfortunately.  Hopefully I'll get one in front of me soon.

About 20% of the BOM's passives are obsolete.  The new CM requested subs which appeared equivalent so we gave the green light.

Thank you all very much for the recommendations and for the offers.  We're going to have a meeting Monday with the new CM.  They or us will likely reach out afterwards.

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