There’s been times, I’m sure, when we have all experienced a bad connection. Whether this has manifested itself as an unsatisfactory telephone or internet line, a misunderstood conversation, or a challenging relationship. In some cases, you are able to simply fix or remedy the situation, in other situations you have to approach with extreme caution and tread very carefully. My most recent encounter of a bad connection made me acknowledge the fact that something so tiny can be the reason for causing bigger technical problems.
With my head under the bonnet, so to speak, on an older model Ford Focus, I was faced with determining why the car was not working as it should. I discovered that a well-known issue with this type of vehicle, is a malfunction with the instrument cluster. In simple terms, this electronic device is a big connector and under normal observation, I couldn’t visibly see a problem. However, once I had removed it and looked under the Sanstec microscope, I could clearly see that the soldering had dried out on the pins, which in turn were damaged and consequently not operating as they should. This so-called small problem had the effect of shutting down part of the car as the pins could not form a good clean connection.
The remedy was of course re-soldering of the instrument cluster pins, which I am delighted to say fixed this particular problem. Back in the office, a similar parallel can be drawn with CAD data. Time and time again a tiny connection can cause so many problems, such as a wrong intention, a bad design idea, or a complete misinterpretation of what the target audience requires and expects.
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