Electrical Gremlins have come to visit

[djh3]

Noticed comming home the other night in the dark, boy they sure look yellowish.

[ragtop69gs]

Noticed comming home the other night in the dark, boy they sure look yellowish.

 

They mus be pretty bright though if you saw them all the way from Florida!

[MikeWa]

MikeWA, hmm sounds like you might have been an aircraft electrician at one time. Simular to the way we use to troubleshoot them multi wire bundles on the aircraft.

 

Yes I was. Black box tech on B52s. Electronic troubleshooting is the same though. No matter what it is on.

Mike

[djh3]

Ragtop-:rotf:But not yours the ones on my bike. But nice comeback.

Mike-My AMS (black box guys auto pilot moslty) were not the best troubleshooters. Thier idea of troubleshooting a problem was to ETR said component to the shop. If it involved more than bench checking something you had to pretty much wit for a 7 level. I dont think they tought them how to use a multimeter until thier second hitch. lol

[MikeWa]

Don't know about you but we repaired the units in the shop as well. And sometimes (late in Nam) we did troubleshooting and repair in the air. MOS was Airborn Radar Repair which included nav aids, integrated flight systems, iff, and radar beacons etc. At the time we were still heavily vested in vacuum tubes with few circuit boards which made for lots of tracing faulty wiring. But nice to hear from another Airman all the same.

Mike

[djh3]

Yup like finding former Airman. Some things stayed pretty much the same even though decades apart in some cases. But if it works why mess with it. I spent my time from 78-98 on C-141's. I found it amazing how a wire in the middle of a bundle could break and not seem to have any stress or strain on it.