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In Reply to: Why certainly posted by E-Stat on October 27, 2006 at 06:31:04:
"You flip the switch, the power comes on. Really challenging."Why not try it...on a 1 megawatt data center. Don't kid yourself, you'd be lucky if they let you walk through the door.
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Success for audio is a whole lot more complex than "no one complained"Success for audio is a whole lot more complex than "no one complained"
Success for audio is a whole lot more complex than "no one complained"
Any idiot can design a speaker system or an amplifier. And that is exactly who often does. If it doesn't work right the first time, he does it again and again until he gets it right, prototype after prototype, model after model. To design a suitable power distribution system for a complicated application, you need decades of training....and you often only get one shot at a project so it had better be right the first time or you are finished in the business. Capiche?
Last try.There is a single criteria for the success of a power distribution system. You flip the switch and either (A) it works, or (B) it doesn't. You acknowledged that some time ago with this proud evaluation of your large project:
"And eperience [sic] bore it out as no complaint was ever traced to a problem with this cable installation."
Nobody complained. Great job! It sure seems you use that same criteria when it comes to audio. I can hear the music through both speakers. Job done!
Electrical power distribution design and installation failure can occur in many different modes including insidious failures as well as failures which don't manifest themselves for months or years. As is always the case you shoot your mouth off without knowing what you are talking about. How long were the defects unknown and undetected in both the system configuration and the fault protection and isolation scheme before a feeder failure in the midwest a few summers ago took out much of the midwest and northeast power grid? That's just one of countless examples. Recently I heard a report from a collegue that a company I worked at 11 years ago just had a massive power failure in their main data center because someone had installed a defective design for dual pathing and a component failure took out both the primary and redundant systems. Up to that time it worked just fine. So much for your theories. Stick to what you do know....whatever that is.
it went from (A) working to (B), not working.Qualitative measures completely elude your line of thinking.
Sometimes it goes from working to sort of working to not working to back and forth among them. An intermittent electrical problem which manifests itself by degrees is among the most difficult to diagnose. Just when you think you've cured it, it comes back again. I just had one with my car. The dealer took several hours with his computer hooked up to it to find it and his time cost me $300. The part...$8. I think this is more than you can absorb. You'd better take your afternoon nap and rest your tired mind, this could be too mentally straining for you. :> )
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