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SiliconWizard:
It's like people discover the YT business every single day. Fascinating. ;D

rsjsouza:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on November 23, 2023, 12:26:18 am ---It's like people discover the YT business every single day. Fascinating. ;D

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:-DD

joeqsmith:
I played it for some background noise.  Found it a bit difficult to follow along without paying attention.  Not watching Dave's videos he referenced for context didn't help.   

My only problem with other videos they he made was lack of substance.  Maybe the drinking played a roll in how scattered this one was.   I found it interesting that he felt the need to talk about his professional background.  Personally, I would rank his skills based on content, not lip service and didn't find it adding anything to the video but was rather a distraction.

It's been several years since I looked at buying a scope for home.  I have only bought one new scope in my entire life.  The rest have all been used.   My hobby exceeds my budget so my only choice is the used market.

He mentions PICO a few times.  I had actually written them about sending one of their 8GHz VNAs to make some videos and show it off.  No luck though.  My channel may be too small to generate any interest.  That and with ads turned off and no way to provide funding, they may not like my total sink business model.  :-DD

I'm currently looking at a new scope for work.  Normally I have some sort of decision matrix and will bring in a few companies for a demo and try them out for a month or so.   While I normally include cost as a metric,  it has little weight compared to what functions I need the equipment for.   I'm not sure about his comments on calibration.  We will send off some of our equipment for calibration rather than using the companies that come on-site.   Than  again, a lot of it may never get calibrated.   It depends.   

I'm sure his comments and story about poor firmware strike a cord with many of us.  The same for the UI.  That's part of why I will do a month evaluation. 

HalFET:

--- Quote from: Someone on November 22, 2023, 11:19:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: HalFET on November 22, 2023, 10:50:37 pm ---In SMEs I saw it get bypassed, in large corporations with a working quality management system that demands paperwork, and fat chance you're getting an actual calibration certificate or traceable safety test paperwork from these cheaper manufacturers.
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Sure, but how much of the test equipment in a large organisation is inside the calibration/quality system? When that sort of system is in place the equipment I would use day to day (from "A" brands) had big stickers reminding the user it was not known to be accurate and outside the calibration chain.

Does a firmware engineer really care about the voltage accuracy of a I2C bus? or just wants to check its roughly correct and the timing between bytes/messages is what was expected? Neither would that have any safety implications on the choice of instrument.

Having ready access to sufficient test equipment is better than waiting for something more than sufficient.

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In our case, everything is tracked and calibration is kept up to date, even on the office multimeters that get used maybe five times a year. They don't want to run the risk of someone using an uncalibrated instrument for something critical. The liability cost of having uncalibrated instruments far exceeds the cost of calibration.

Someone:

--- Quote from: HalFET on November 23, 2023, 11:03:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: Someone on November 22, 2023, 11:19:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: HalFET on November 22, 2023, 10:50:37 pm ---In SMEs I saw it get bypassed, in large corporations with a working quality management system that demands paperwork, and fat chance you're getting an actual calibration certificate or traceable safety test paperwork from these cheaper manufacturers.
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Sure, but how much of the test equipment in a large organisation is inside the calibration/quality system? When that sort of system is in place the equipment I would use day to day (from "A" brands) had big stickers reminding the user it was not known to be accurate and outside the calibration chain.

Does a firmware engineer really care about the voltage accuracy of a I2C bus? or just wants to check its roughly correct and the timing between bytes/messages is what was expected? Neither would that have any safety implications on the choice of instrument.

Having ready access to sufficient test equipment is better than waiting for something more than sufficient.
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In our case, everything is tracked and calibration is kept up to date, even on the office multimeters that get used maybe five times a year. They don't want to run the risk of someone using an uncalibrated instrument for something critical. The liability cost of having uncalibrated instruments far exceeds the cost of calibration.
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I can believe there are some businesses taking that approach to avoid people using uncalibrated equipment for a task which requires it, and the need varies wildly depending on market/regulations. Your situation seems to be the minority, if they provide sufficient equipment and its all calibrated that sounds very well supported and a nice place to work.

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