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Would you like to roadtest a wider variety of products?

rscasny

Roadtests have historically been conducted on single board computers, development/evaluation boards, and electronic/electrical test equipment.

We have not roadtested other products, such as connectors and adapters, etc., because there aren't too many things you can test out with them.

What do you think?

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  • I voted yes and I’d take a view of not over thinking this.  Definitely not interested in ‘creative’ ways of using lower cost, lower complexity products: if the tin it comes in says ‘it does X”, I want to know it does X well and how complex or otherwise it is to achieve that.  Simple, quick testing and demos.  

    In some ways, it would be useful to pose a common or typical problem and ask for an application that says how you would solve it and with what, and the roadtest shows that.  For example, in the thermistor roadtest recently I posed a question about the best way of attaching a bead thermistor to a heatsink or TO-220 part: there’s the problem and roadtest applications could range from a ring mounted thermistor, to glue, tape; comparison of approaches, longevity, re usability and so on.  Useful answers with specific products.  Each problem could come with a maximum parts cost that applicants could ‘spend’.  Clearly, if manufacturers need to be involved, as for a typical roadtest, for it to work then I suspect this idea isn’t really viable sadly.

    Note: I did vote yes and the first time, the button turned blue but nothing happened.  Pressed it again and nothing happened.  Refreshed the page and the whole poll disappeared!  Refreshed it again, and again, and again, and it then actually properly reloaded showing results.  It’s a roundabout way of saying I may have voted more than once!

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    Andrew J said:
    It’s a roundabout way of saying I may have voted more than once!

    That would be a special privilege to have ... I suspect the system probably won't register multiple votes from a single account and the consensus seems to be a resounding "Yes" ...

    - Gough

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