[BC] miswiring adventures

[Chuck Lakaytis]

Ah yes, you have not been in the business very long if you have not 
looked at a well soldered XLR or Jones connector then realized that you 
have forgotten to put the rear part of the connector on the cable 
first!  Or remembered that you wanted to slide a big ferrite toroid on 
the 3 1/8 inch coaxial cable before installing the connector.  (Nautel 
users will have probably done this)

And if you want the ultimate OOOPS read Richard Rhodes The Making of the 
Atomic Bomb.  The plutonium bomb used on Nagasaki was being prepped in 
the assembly hanger.  There was a very complicated wiring harness used 
to attach all the explosive charges of the symmetrical exploders.  
Someone noticed that the male and female connectors were at the wrong 
end of the cable!  The cable was routed in such a way that it would have 
taken at least a day to remove and rerun the cable.  So one of the 
physicists along with an enlisted tech, against regulations  (NO HEAT NO 
OPEN FLAMES) said a sign in the room, unsoldered the connectors and then 
resoldered them to the correct ends of the cable.

By the way that book is a wonderful read.

--
Chuck Lakaytis
Director of Engineering, Alaska Public Broadcasting
135 Cordova Street, Anchorage, AK 99501
office   907-277-6300