On Monday 29 February 2016 08:51:03 Rick Lair wrote: > Aaaahhhh, that makes sense then, > > Rick > I might throw in another observation I first made in the 1970's when CB radios from the J.A.Pan Co. started flooding the market.
Any wire of asian origin, which has a bright red insulation, bordering on a hint of magenta coloration, is a 3 to 5 year wire at best, and that category INCLUDES those bright red sata cables we use in our computers today. So it you start having drive troubles, put a tail on the messages file, and take a pencil or longer dowel and move the drive cable(s) around. If the log explodes with disconnect/reset messages, its time to replace those cables but not with more red ones. Tan, yellow, blue or black is fine, but get rid of the red ones. End of problem for many years. Back in the years I was dealing with the CB radios as a service tech, mike cables were the usual suspect, and most makers used the red wire in the cable as a transmit trigger. Transmission would stop, or get extremely broken up, so I'd pull the covers off the connector & check continuity, and it was always the red wire that was broken even if it didn't look broken. You could wiggle it and find the bad connection was usually inside the insulation, either in the strain relief gripper as it exited the mike, or just as often, in the 4 pin connector where it hooked to the radio, also at the point of the strain relief clamp. Cutting the jacket back past that point about an inch, then restripping the cable to resolder it back together, usually found nothing but a copper colored dust inside the red wire, no wire left in it to strip! We started ordering mike cable replacements, but had a hell of a time convincing the suppliers that we wanted ONLY american made cables, because the japanese made cables they could sell us for 1/3rd the cost of the american cable, were more of the same crap we were replacing. And Norfolk Two-way Radio had a reputation to up hold as we were famous from coast to coast among the truckers as THE place to get your radio fixed right. And I was the bench tech doing those repairs on the side, making a 14 hour day out of keeping KXNE-TV 19 on the air for the Nebraska ETV Commission with about 6 hours in the middle of the day doing the radio work. There's something it that hot red dye that doesn't bode well for copper, oxidizing it into dust eventually. If you have good color vision, that particular plastic dye stands out like a flashing red warning light to the experienced tech, and I just wrote 4k of text to say that. :( When you see it, you ARE looking at Trouble with a capital T. So I'll snip the rest. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
