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| OwO:
I see a lot of people recommending to go with off the shelf equipment when possible, but let me offer the other side: you never want to have one or two test jigs or a very complex setup involving big iron boxes and a PC that is hard to replicate. A few spares/backups of the entire system is a must, so you might as well productionize it and design it to the same manufacturability standards as any other product. In my case my test jig is just an orange pi with a custom PCB shield and LCD added on top. The custom board has very few components on it and is easy and cheap to produce. If I wanted to add say current/voltage monitoring I would add it to this board rather than use an external multimeter for example. Existing test equipment all seem to have quirky control interfaces and these are less future proof than you might think. |
| microherb:
--- Quote from: OwO on July 11, 2019, 05:25:22 am ---I see a lot of people recommending to go with off the shelf equipment when possible, --- End quote --- Well, the company is baulking at spending around $5000AUD for the AC power source and Multimeter so looks like off the shelf equipment is not going to be possible. They don't see that to test manually is going to cost them a lot more than that in time and labour. Oh well, working for these guys I have to keep reminding myself it's their money, I get paid whether they take my advice or not :-( |
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