I don't agree that "most of the satisfaction is finding out what the actual problem was...." While that is sometimes sort of satisfying, for me the most satisfaction comes when I can get quickly past the problem when my van (or scooter, or racecar, or whatever) either quit working properly or refused to work at all and thwarted my plans for that period of time... If I can 'throw a part at it" and get on with my life...very satisfying..If I have to spend hours with a voltmeter, schematics, digitizing ohms and analyzing micro signals...I find that rather tedious...And when a problem occurs that is caused by a very obscure coincidence of circumstances, one that results in large expenditures of time to trace and fix....When I finally figure one of those problems out rather than satisfaction...I just go..."Great, now I can sell this POS and get something easy to work on instead"... Don Hanson On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans < scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote: > hi, > re > "most of the satisfaction of troubleshooting is finding out what the actual > problem was instead of solving the problem by throwing parts at it." > > I'll say ! > > |
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