Sunday, October 11th, 2009
I occasionally opine that little in New Eden happens quickly. I have recently completed skill training in battlecruisers V, the duration of around twenty five days being part of a grander skill plan to pilot a Damnation command ship, which will take around seventy days of skill training in ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
After trying to get this current piece of equipment through the first part of its qualification test and failing several times it finally seems like I am going to guide it through the test successfully. The fault was recently diagnosed as a design issue, resolved with an internal tweak ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
I have picked up a bad but perhaps not unfair reputation of breaking something during pretty much every environmental test that I run. The reputation began quite early. When I first joined the environmental engineering group and was shown how to power on all the power amplifiers and ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
The Company has a flexi-time policy that allows for extended and shortened days, but we all essentially still work on the basis of an eight hour day that includes a thirty minute lunch break.
As such, when someone outside of the department draws up a day's test plan for us to ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
I am running a qualification test at the moment, which in this case involves setting up lots of relatively short test periods. Because most of the work is involved in setting up a test, and watching it run for several hours is where the road to tedium lies, this ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Cor, it wasn't even 9 am before I had induced a failure in some expensive electronic equipment during formal vibration testing. It took me longer to set-up the test and update the test log than it did to run the test.
It's going to be a good day!
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
I had a five minute vibration test to perform yesterday. It's not long, but it keeps me occupied, and the set-up and configuration can take a bit of time. I spent about thirty minutes in the morning taking off a jig from the previous test from the shaker's ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
I went to an off-site training seminar yesterday, on the basics of vibration shaker testing. It turned out to be a little too basic overall, but there were a few moments that were of interest, and I got to see the phallic student digs of Loughborough university again.
To get ...
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