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"But I never encountered anything as nauseating or alien like PhePHMe" (There are unfortunate coincidences in names ...) Other branches of science/engineering
by ableal 13y ago
"But I never encountered anything as nauseating or alien like PhePHMe"
(There are unfortunate coincidences in names ...)
Other branches of science/engineering may feel olfactorily deprived, never getting in their labs past the occasional smell of ozone, overheated oil/metal/plastic, etc.
- raverbashing 13y agoThe smell of enamelled wire going bye bye is unmistakable. And bad. Also is the smell of regular wire coating burning due to an overcurrent. (you also have the unmistakeable fumes to help you identify the problem) On the other hand, the smell of Ozone is not particularly bad
- dhimes 13y agoHence the term, "smoke test." Ahh, good times.
- joezydeco 13y agoEver work in a room full of hardware/firmware engineers? One whiff of that smell and everyone's heads instantly pop up like gophers. "Who's on fire?" It becomes instinct.
- bstpierre 13y agoWe used to run a load test on a piece of POTS gear that would blow a reasonably large cap. (Timing in the firmware was applying voltage to something that shouldn't have had a voltage... and the circuit didn't have good enough protection.) A (very) little bit of flame and lots of smoke. Great way to get the attention of every hw/fw eng in the building... "FIRE IN THE LAB!" thankfully it was never enough to set off the smoke detectors. We also used to have (small) gear out in the cubicles. Every once in a while I'd get a whiff of "that smell" and would take a walk around cube-ville trying to figure out whose box was overheating. Good times...