[Amps] Good engineering

[Bill, W6WRT]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:30:57 -0500, "Edward Swynar"
<gswynar at durham.net> wrote:

>
>When I started, it seemed the mantra in the matter of designing &
>engineering was one of "...just in case"...by the end of my tenure there,
>though, it had slipped down to "...just enough". I distinctly recall my
>associates at the start of my career criticizing import models for that very
>latter feature...in the end, we ourselves embraced it for the sake of
>economy...
>
>...And we all know only too well what position that sort of thinking
>eventually placed the Big 3 into (well, one of them, anyway).

REPLY:

Sounds like the engineer who decided something was "just enough" was
wrong. Making good decisions like that separates the good engineers
from the not so good. 

73, Bill W6WRT