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I spent better part of today by reading through service manuals of various test and measurement instruments. It is not that hard to assume that half of the cont
by dfox 4y ago
I spent better part of today by reading through service manuals of various test and measurement instruments. It is not that hard to assume that half of the content (eg. ridiculously detailed step by step procedures for doing obvious things) is there because of the expectation that the field repair staff cannot really think. One would ask whether general disappearance of component level schematics from such manuals in this century is not also caused by the same assumption.
- dieselgate 4y agoIt's sort of weird, from my engineering background i'm used to the expectation of being able to "derive" an answer from working with first principles. But that's not really how a lot of "technician" work is done - same for cargo cult programming. But suppose that's a benefit of modular/component based systems as you can just replace a part and expect it to "solve" a problem. There's a lot more stuff to it, though.