[AusNOG] Junior techs

[Karl Kloppenborg]

I have done a fair bit of electronic design in my short short life span.

Back when I was in Highschool (no jokes on my age guys ;P I didn't graduate YESTERDAY :D ) I built this robot from scratch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exfWiBCFTLA

Still have it at my place in Sydney, and I do tend to like building things for no particular reason, also love to dabble in high voltage stuff.


Cheers!
Karl Kloppenborg





On 05/07/2010, at 12:24, Curtis Bayne wrote:

> LOL! I had a similar incident with an SCR the other day (been building custom power control circuits for our HVAC). Turns out reactive loads require snubber circuits. No boom but lots of pain :(
> 
> Any other electronics nerds on list?
> 
> Sent from my HTC Touch Pro
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Jones <paul at pauljones.id.au>
> Sent: Monday, 5 July 2010 12:18 PM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net <ausnog at ausnog.net>
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Junior techs
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> The best one I know of is a junior tech who started a job repairing high
> power amplifiers(+2kw). One of the senior techs found a good specimen unit
> that was beyond repair and took it apart and reversed the polarity on all
> the filter capacitors in the power unit. He then gave it to the junior to
> diagnose, with the instructions "BEFORE removing the case it is necessary to
> troubleshoot as far as possible, both as a safety precaution and to save
> time." - You can imagine what happened when the poor guy turned it on -
> KABOOM!! Needless to say it became a lifelong safety lesson as well as a
> funny story!
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> Paul.
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> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Hood
> Sent: Monday, 5 July 2010 11:32 AM
> To: 'Jacob Gardiner'; 'Skeeve Stevens'
> Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Anyone else experiencing high latency, low speeds
> through internode?
> 
> 
> 
> Best one we always used to do to juniors, was take them out on a phone
> system installation or somewhere that required patching (or that we could
> make require patching)... Then get them to "hold these two bare telephone
> cables and be a  "marker", and tell them "don't drop them or lose them no
> matter what happens". Then the rest of the boys would head into the other
> room and call that phone line or extension... Was a great prank. Till one of
> the juniors packed a sad and called in Workplace Safety... Boo!
> 
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> 
> Dan
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> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Jacob Gardiner
> Sent: Monday, 5 July 2010 10:27 AM
> To: Skeeve Stevens
> Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Anyone else experiencing high latency, low speeds
> through internode?
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> 
> I'd like to hear more of these induction ceremonies. 
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> Any funny junior stories floating around?
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> JG
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> On 05/07/2010, at 10:21 AM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
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> Indeed... all part of the initiation to the industry.
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> 
> ...Skeeve
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> NOC, NOC, who's there?
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> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Hooper
> Sent: Monday, 5 July 2010 10:16 AM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Anyone else experiencing high latency, low speeds
> through internode?
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> 
> And part of every junior tech/network engineers training is to cop a good
> flaming on a few mailing list.
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> 
> -Dan
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