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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In Artillery you call it bracketing/straddling.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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