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What’s the worst mistake/problem you’ve made during a project, and what did you learn from it? We are asking e14 in our Join, Share & Win Competition

E14Alice

Hello Everyone!

Hope you are all doing well. I’m excited to announce that this month's AskE14 question is: What is the worst mistake or problem you've encountered during a project, and what did you learn from it?

Sharing your experiences can help others identify similar challenges and understand how to overcome them. I hope this discussion will be beneficial for those who are just starting out on a project or feeling stuck with a problem.

Here's the question:

What’s the worst mistake/problem you’ve made during a project, and what did you learn from it? 

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Competition Details

You'll have to be a member of the element14 Community to join in and take part in this “Join, Share & Win” challenge. It's simple, all you have to do is:

1. You need to make sure you are Register  or Login
2. Then answer the following question by adding a reply or commenting!

What’s the worst mistake/problem you’ve made during a project, and what did you learn from it?  

The Community team will then select the best 3 answers to win a Raspberry Pi 400!

This month, we are giving away:

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 will be in touch shortly regarding the prize 

  • E14Alice said:
    What is the worst mistake

    Getting your 1980's CAD printer scaling settings wrong and returning to work after the weekend only to find the sound of a printer still printing from the batch printing job you started last thing on Friday... 

    E14Alice said:
    or problem

    Gathering up 1,000 pages worth of fanfold listing paper that have overshot the paper basket onto the floor and hiding it before your colleagues start to arrive, whilst finding and replacing the now shredded ribbon cartridge and obtaining a new box of paper...

    E14Alice said:
    and what did you learn from it?

    Printers were evil 40 years ago and they are still evil today...

  • in reply to dang74

    Maybe it was literally, but there was too much damage for it to be legible...Relaxed

  • in reply to kmikemoo

    I wonder how many places will 'randomly' lose power in 2038, when the cheapo router fails as the timestamp rolls over, with all the smart switches losing connection to the mothership and panicking.

  • in reply to vmate

    I once put a County Courthouse and jail in the dark for about 2 minutes because I rebooted a router.  The circuit breakers were programmed to open if they lost communication - a really bad plan for an emergency backup power system - but there it was.  The systems didn't fail safe.  It just failed OFF.  And the restore time was ridiculous.  Needless to say, that control system got a complete changeout.

  • in reply to javagoza
    javagoza said:
    It was 11 PM in Stockholm

    Make sure when you write your memoirs you call this chapter "It was 11PM in Stockholm.".... and don't forget   I want the movie rights to that Northern Africa Marijuana scheme you got tied up in.  Wink 

  • in reply to Jan Cumps

    if it was during the war it would be considered a mayor success Slight smile

  • I approved a change that halted several factories and shipping areas for almost a weekend in Russia.

  • in reply to gpolder

    This reminds me of the story from old times: when I was a child, there was a communism where I live - which meant permanent lack of everything. I had a multimeter, but there was problem with fuses for current measurement protection - the ones I have managed to acquire were quickly blown (it was about 0.5A maximum I think). And as the fuse was in the ground patch, blown fuse also blocked voltage measurements.... I have learned that when multimeter was set for voltage measurements, signal could be connected to the ohmmeter contacts to avoid a patch with blown fuse - until the multimeter was set for something different and one element of resistor ladder has blown instead of the fuse...

    Lessons learned - protection measurements have their place and sidestepping them should be avoided if possible Slight smile