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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

In Artillery you call it bracketing/straddling.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

It's called bracketing in electrical engineering as well for troubleshooting.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

"Hmm still no magic smoke, double the current will you Jeeves?"

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Fried electronics have such a unique ""oh fuck" smell

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The smell of the magic smoke that gets released from the electronics, preventing them from working.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Called half splitting in troubleshooting terms when I was in the Navy.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Half split bracketing was the term I learned in aviation electronic school in the Navy.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

That's an analogy that might appeal to the LE types.

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