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From: Wayne Nolan
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 7:18 AM
Subject: SS2 received, problem solved!
Hi Carl,
Jeez, what a cool product.
It took me about an hour of playing with the unit to become comfortable with it. I can see how with some experience you can get really good with it. Anyway, I connected the SS2’s outputs to the output from the DC-DC converter on the analog side of my board, and touched the probe to each of the de-coupling capacitors. When the probe came into contact with a shorted capacitor, the tone went off like an alarm.
The SS2 has earned a place of honor on my workbench. It will
undoubtedly save me countless hours of troubleshooting.
Send me the invoice and I’ll remit promptly.
Many Thanks,Wayne
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| From: carl Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:28 PM To: emanuel-machado Subject: RE: Notification of payment received You placed your order early in the day, which normally would have been processed and shipped today. There was an unfortunate 6 hour delay in the Verizon email system so we didn’t receive the order until after 5pm. In our haste to fill the order (in hope of being able to catch the UPS driver at the last pickup location) we mistakenly processed the order as a second-day shipment. I have refunded $20 to your purchase charges; $15 for the shipping cost differential, and $5 because I feel bad about the extra delay. Please let me know if you have any troubles in your short circuit location and I will try to help. From: Emanuel Machado Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 12:52 PM To: carl Subject: RE: Notification of payment received Hi, Carl, Thanks for your prompt response. Oh well, we’ll have to wait a couple of days (it’s President’s day anyway). Do you have any tips about how to go about the job? Or there maybe some docs with the device, that would be probably ok. We’re trying to find a nasty short between power and ground on a multilayer, VME sized board. It could be a component issue, a solder joint or a board manufacturing issue, I hope we will be able to get to the bottom of it. From: Carl Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 3:57 PM To: Emanuel-Machado Subject: short finding (reply from my day job) When you get the ShortSniffer, play with the practice board so you can get the feel (or sound) of the process. Then hook up to your shorted nodes and follow the sound to the short. If you get confusing results, try injecting the current from a different side of the board to see if you get any better indications of the location. If you spend an hour with no success, let me know and I can give more help. Later, Carl From: Emanuel Machado Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 7:01 AM To: Carl Subject: RE: short finding Hi, Carl, You can add us to your list of satisfied customers. We had a nasty power short but, after removing the large caps, it was fairly easy to trace the short location. Thanks for a great product, EmanuelSat —————— 6/30/2007 8:32 PM HI, use my following testimonial if you wish: I got your Plus unit and it sat here for some time for no good reason. Lately we got 3 high value complex boards running in short order using your device. On a board with hundreds of components in about 90 seconds it pinpointed an area which had already been inspected with a microscope and sure enough there was a hairline solder whisker! Cleared it and there was a shippable board. In another case we had a blown chip on a bus with 24 other identical chips, we knew which pin but not which chip, your box found it in a few minutes and saved a ton of work and the possibility of scrapping of an expensive board. Great product and thanks! Dennis Saputelli —————— Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:04 AM Subject: shortsniffer Your ShortSniffer arrived about an hour ago, and it has already paid for itself. It found two tiny 3.3VDC shorts to gnd, on a 14×14 PCB with thousands of components. This board had already undergone exhaustive visual inspection, to no avail. In less than three minutes, the ShortSniffer pinpointed the trouble spots to two 144-pin fine-pitch flat-packs, and microscopic inspection revealed the shorts. Our products have dozens of such large-scale IC’s, and visual inspection for defects that escape the AOI process is impractical. Thanks for such an outstanding product!!! Robert Kean Test Engineering Supervisor Wintronics, Inc |