Aw jeez. So now you are an expert in electronics and know more than people actually trained in it?
Actually Chirop, that isn't too far fetched. I just had a similar thing happen here when a
supposedly highly trained engineer came to install an new ICP-OES system in my new lab. It wouldn't work and he was on the verge of sending it back to the factory before i stepped in and showed him what was wrong.
OK so I used to
be a highly trained instrumental engineer myself but that isn't the point. I would say that 90% of the engineers that I have worked with or trained over the years have just about had enough skill get by without being fired for incompetence. The other 10% were absolutely brilliant at lateral thinking and trouble-shooting.
Anyway this is kind of off topic so I will shut up and go away now.