On 6/28/2022 1:46 AM, Geert Jan de Groot wrote:
And if you feel otherwise and know it all better - it's a free world and
everyone has an opinion! - then I kindly ask you to identify what flight
you will be on so I will take the next flight, thank you.
All of your post is well said, Jan. We have the right to our opinion,
but we don't have the right to endanger others by acting out on the
basis of our ignorance.
For nearly 40 I've been a member of the Standards Committee of the
Audio Engineering Society, and lead author our Standards on EMC. I can
report that all of our Standards are based on Applied Science, and the
result of serious engineers who are practitioners in a broad range of
pro audio -- broadcast, recording, live sound -- all with a solid
engineering grounding. Those lacking that background, or with "an
agenda," or to be unwilling to yield to others who know more about an
issue, are quickly sent to the back benches. And all of us have an
excellent BS filter. The goal is simple -- write Standards that make
systems WORK, in the REAL WORLD.
One of the things that design professionals from different engineering
disciplines do in design meetings is play "what if" scenarios to
evaluate design decisions. A prime example in the real world I've often
cited is, the design team of the Fukushima nuclear reactor failing to
ask, or failing to have the imagination or education to come up with
possible answers to the question, "What Could Possibly Go Wrong With
Putting Emergency Power Generators in the basement?" In 2011, Mother
Nature answered rather emphatically that question that should have been
asked or satisfactorily resolved, but wasn't. Note that this is an
example to prove a concept, not an "attack" on anyone. I've been in lots
of design meetings, and ain't nobody perfect.
73, Jim K9YC
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