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▲ Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results(bigmessowires.com)
17 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 3 comments
▲sdcfgy 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Crystal failures are always a problem. We used to chuck a bag of them in a tumbler for an hour then on a tray on a vibration table for an hour. About 20% would fail on test from being entirely open circuit to being way off frequency.

▲snvzz 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Did they ever fail short?

▲sdcfgy an hour ago | parent [-]

Nope.