Re: Amplifone replacement is here!!

Plus Simon's "soak test" has nothing to do with water, it is another
term for burn-in. At my Real Job, for example, running a unit in a cold
chamber or hot chamber is sometimes referred to as "cold soak" or "hot
soak". I suspect what he's doing is a "room ambient burn-in".

Mark Shostak wrote:
> The difference being that the Amplifone soak test was (as legend has it)
> performed _during_ manufacture. Simon's soak test is _post_ manufacture
> (after the potting's cured and water can't get in).
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 10:27:00AM -0700, John Robertson wrote:
>> Soak test???
>>
>> Wasn't that rumoured to be the original cause of failure for the Red
>> Things after a year or two? Perhaps you are looking for ongoing
>> (bi-yearly) sales...Planned obsolescence!
>>
>> <<ducking for serious cover>>
>>
>> John :-#)#
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