I am pretty sure, that “new guy” does not know all internals. But there some rules like not putting 2 screwdrivers into power outlet... It’s obviously should be done other way.
His job, his livelihood depends on a single terminal block/bad soldering & ducttape hackjob. I'm all for DIY solutions to unique problems, but this is just plain stupid. It's only a matter of time before that thing sets on fire.
I suspect it's more of a know-how issue. Any changes means the guy will probably need to get up to date with new tech. Mainly a waste of time for him if every thing is working fine.
The article says Ive's consultancy contributed the power/ speed control button and the hinges. It isn't as though they let him play with anything important.
He also didn't describe much of any of his technical requirements. I'd say it's a fair assumption his setup was enough different to cause an issue. Whether or not that's a fireable offense is up to the company.
That guy must have had a steady hand and be really quick with the soldering iron. Making a new controller board while a 200k $ / hour line is down, well I always suspected my job was boring, now I know.
I sure hope he doesn't end up being both a scapegoat and deemed a criminal. Problems like this are exactly why you let younger technicians be mentored by older (and ostensibly wiser) ones. It's also why you have visual inspections done by a different party.
I've seen very little of him, and didn't know he was 'The Right To Repair Guy', but I saw him freak out over an Apple laptop because he took the back off and the fan was not directly over the chip like in gamer PCs.
This, in a machine that's been designed for generations to have a fan pull air aggressively THROUGH a channel, the only path the air can go, that goes directly across the CPU heatsink. This is not a 'circulating the air' situation: a laptop can't do that. It's an overall system with many considerations (turbulence, air handling noise) that is no longer a system at all if you take the top of the duct off. You cannot run that sort of machine with the case taken apart, it's part of the ducting.
Either he's dishonest for effect (and clicks), or he's considerably dumber than a drummer and college dropout (yours truly! derp!) about cooling airflow in a constrained duct inside a laptop. At face value, he's dumber. For his sake I hope he's dishonest.
What I meant is he was wrestling with the inverter physically, not intellectually. I.e. the inverter (after they assembled the whole thing) was very large and heavy compared to the one presented by the on ceo.
I guess I should have referred to the end of the video.
This must be the Associate Director himself, otherwise this is a very weird take, but I guess not surprising given the state of things these days.
Sure, plugging things into the wrong port is an honest mistake. We all make mistakes. But he was shown how to do it, failed to consider the risks of relying last minute on something he’s clearly not comfortable with when faced with a critical task, and must have not had the wherewithal to ask about the two ports, try basic troubleshooting himself, practice ahead of time, or call in for help. Instead he tried to turn his failure into someone else’s. Personal accountability is critical even if sometimes it’s hard to swallow. Desperately trying to roll your own shit downhill is-at a minimum-a sign of an extremely low character. At least the Assistant Director in this story had enough decency to just take the L at the end and drop it.
I really hope that someone who knows more about electronics could help the guy to get a better understanding of what he did wrong and how he could do it in a better way.
Cringe-worthy on multiple levels. Instead of monitoring LED temp, he monitored cooling water temp to test his cooling system. Of course, you might consider putting his fingers on the heatsink as monitoring, lol. On a less critical note, he did follow British plumbing standards ...
Why? He’s just hacked on an external cooling system that is in no way meeting the basic quality requirements of a production device. For that you’d want to hire a heat transfer engineer with experience of designing small-sized passive solutions, and with both a valid work visa for Japan and fluency in Japanese.
Kudos to the guy for debugging his particular problem, but that doesn’t make a product.
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