Leythos wrote in
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In article 42,
says...
Leythos wrote in news:j0Q5h.27047$pq4.13179
@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com:

In article 42,
says...
If you have 100 devices, 50 with surge supression of SOME type,
and 50 w/o, and there is an event that causes damage to 25 of the
50 NON- protected items (50%), yet all of the protected items are
not damaged, based on mathematics, it's COMPLETELY SAFE to
conclude that the surge suppressors saved 50% of the 50 protected
items does it not ?

That last part should have been "...suppressors saved 100% of the
50 protected items..."



Well, that was just going according to tom's logic, that suppressors
don't work.

If 50% of the unprotected devices fried, that gives a 50% failure, by
that ratio and t-Logic, 50% of the protected devices would have been
fine on their own because they are protected by some 'invisible'
surge supressor put in place on many devices by the 'surge supressor
fairy'....I've never seen her......

LOL, I see why I missed it, I wasn't thinking like w_tom

It was kind of a lame joke anyway


I have an old experience with a guy that was a EE when I was fresh out
of high-school, I was running an electrical design shop and had about
20 college kids going for their EE working for me (don't ask, it's
just the way life has always worked for me).

I was designing a UART based system that would transmit 64 sets of BCD
across two wires for a distance of 10,000 feet. I had worked on the
design for about a week, build the prototype, but I could not get the
current circuit down and I could only get about 1000 feet. I had hired
a EE a few weeks before that and let him have a go at it - this guy
was sharp as a tack when it came to theory and he figured out my
problem and solution in a couple hours. This same chap was unable to
diagnose any problems in the field, unable to solder anything, unable
to explain why things that didn't follow theory worked time and time
again, etc...


That's it, theory is just theory. It's a starting point for a design.

As with your EE, that happens time and time again. I've had to deal with
a lot of EE's in my time (believe me, NONE of them can solder), and to
me, many of them, while _extremely_ intelligent within their field, lack
quite a bit other qualities/skills.

One EE, possibly the most book and theory intelligent EE I know (well,
knew as he has passed) could have been considered brilliant, and he
seriously lacked any type of personal hygiene and people skills.