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Does old test equipment really ever become truly obsolete?
pdenisowski:
--- Quote from: David Hess on May 23, 2024, 12:21:45 am ---A higher bandwidth older instrument can always show things that a lower bandwidth newer instrument will miss no matter how many extra features the newer instrument has.
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I understand the sentiment :), but I think it depends on which "features" the older and newer scopes have.
FFT comes immediately to mind. There are lots of things you can (easily) see with an FFT that you can't see without it, no matter how much bandwidth you have. The quality of the FFT implementation is also really important - this has come a long way in the last 15 years or so.
Shock:
Two different terms, obsolescence is going out of use, once out of use it's obsolete. Once sales start to decline you could argue a piece of equipment is becoming obsolescent, so depends on who's making the statement.
coppercone2:
i think its dumb to think that way because you never know what someone is working on. the thought that all the possibilities that are useful that are possible with that equipment have been exhausted is utterly ridiculous.
can it still implement novel technology? yes. Can the extra data readouts and stuff from new equipment be detrimental to design? its possible. you can keep collecting data forever and get nowhere at all, at that point it will just be used to bamboozle people and get sold as 'experience' .
That is a heavy assumption that you don't get sideways growth of related technologies that don't need the most demanding electronics but are none the less new (i.e. new sensors, transducers, etc).
it feels like a eternal sales pitch sometimes hearing about what capabiltiies you need from someone that has no idea what your doing
and there is the over looked fact that laboratory equipment is sometimes used the same way as sky spot lights at a boxing arena, to give something a ritzy confident look, where it actually performs no real function at all, you know... for the business strategy and accounting 'confidence' metric, where two or more groups of 'totally don't know what the fuck is going on here, or in the industry, and related industries, like seriously' groups of people need 'confidence' and 'optics' to facilitate some kind of interaction or exchange.
pdenisowski:
--- Quote from: Shock on May 23, 2024, 07:45:33 am ---Once sales start to decline you could argue a piece of equipment is becoming obsolescent, so depends on who's making the statement.
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You might be surprised at how often equipment is obsoleted due to unavailability of parts or changing regulations. RoHS "obsoleted" a lot of products.
coppercone2:
i wonder how many pounds of plasticizers and whatnot each gram of lead saved puts into the e-waste trash piles that i swear are recycled after beyond economical repair determination is made. we won't have lead, but we will have microplastics instead! especially when its burned, grinded down and dunked in acids in a barrel on top of a trash fire made with tires and old yard furniture. it should get back to the USA in about 50 years from africa via fish, rain, ocean currents and wind.
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