Hello Dane
I think you're missing the point. I never said it was quality control, it is a
design flaw as I said in my first post. A design flaw is very different to
quality control.
The design flaw is an issue whereby some models, (they've only seen it in UK
models so far), develop a fault on the tuner's phase lock loop circuitry
(whatever that is), and the PLL cannot synchronise. Gordon is telling me that
the PLL is an IC which stabilises the base frequency of the tuner so that the
multipliers function properly. Well I don't pretend to understand, but there
you go. Apparently there is an intermittent design flaw somewhere in that lot
which is causing the tuners to basically go AWOL and refuse to tune. It isn't
anything remotely to do with quality control, whatever name you want to give
it, (Or rather, Martin does). :)
Merry Christmas all
Lynne
On 25 Dec 2011, at 13:05, Martin McCormick wrote:
I was only saying that quality control is not a new
issue and things are basically built better today, but when
something does go wrong, getting it put right is more of a
hassle than it used to be or should be. Dealing with big
business is too often like dealing with recalcitrant government
agencies. Monty Python has several episodes of people dealing
with businesses or government personnel that get the tone of the
futility of it all perfectly.
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