Tag: excuses

  • Bad day at work? – How I destroyed a £2300 piece of equipment

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    It’s been longer than I care to admit since my last post, but sit comfortably because this is a tale worth telling. It is about all the planning and thought in the world can be let down with one careless oversight. We use a fairly inexpensive HiPot tester (Clare H101) at work to check that some…

  • Excuses

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    I made a promise that I would have some extra info on stepper motors, and clearly this isn’t it. I got very distracted with the parallel port work. Parallel port stuff used to be easy in Win98 and earlier, but got more difficult in XP. By more difficult I mean I had to install “inpout32.dll”…