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In fact, maybe some of the warnings I have presented here will explain why you
once had a problem whose cause you could never figure out. Every once in a while, I
learn something that stops me in my tracks: “That explains why the oscillator I made
two years ago never worked right.” If you stand on my shoulders, you may be able to
get to places that neither of us could get to alone.
I certainly didn’t figure out every one of these ideas by myself. I am passing along
many ideas that I gleaned from other people’s experience. Furthermore, I doubt if
they invented all those ideas themselves. Surely, they benefited from other peoples’
ideas that they picked up along the way. I am just trying to pass along insights that
are not book learning but that I learned in the College of Hard Knocks. It may or may
not be troubleshooting, but it’s close enough for me.

References

1. Pease, R. A., “Understand capacitor soakage to optimize analog systems,” EDN. October i 3.
1982, p. 125.

2. EIA Documents RS-198, p. 11.