Originally posted by Spork99:
Originally posted by MattO:
I had one case that nearly cost me a contract. I had set up remote cameras and used 2 different systems to fire them. Tested each out before the event to verify no issues. But once the radio, tv, and other people using systems were in place neither system would work at all. Scrambled and confused by the other stuff around them.
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Reminds of a situation where I was called in to look at some test equipment that was returning questionable data. The facility was across the street from the airport with windows covering the side facing the airport. Turns out they were using unshielded cable for their data signals and it was acting as an antenna for the radar pulses coming from the airport. They didn't believe me until I showed them a video of the rotating radar antenna time synced with a graph of the noise. The noise disappeared as soon as the cables were replaced with properly shielded cable, which costs more. The noise hadn't been a problem until the airport upgraded to a more powerful radar. |
Not about pocket wizards, but...
Last year I was at a work thing, literally out in the middle of a field, surrounded by all sorts of....equipment. They warned us at the beginning of the week that there would be all sorts of EMR in the air, and that anything unshielded would break. I didn't think anything about it until the third day, when my cell phone switched itself into Vietnamese. I didn't have time to figure out how to switch it back until the end of the day. In the meantime, the phone kept changing the spelling on every word in every text, to some random similar Vietnamese word.
The phone was never quite the same ever again.
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