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Shoutout to the tech who told me to check the brake resistor first
Took me 3 hours on a Schindler 3300 in Denver last Wednesday because I was sure it was a drive fault... ended up being a simple burned out resistor I overlooked. Why do we always assume it's the complex stuff when the simple parts fail first?
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charliew9920d ago
ruby494 said something about muscle memory and I gotta agree with that more than I want to. I had a similar thing happen last month on a Mitsubishi in Boulder where I swore up and down the drive was fried. Was about to order a new one when my helper asked if I checked the brake resistor. Felt like a dummy but that was the problem. Funny how we get so locked into training videos and complex scenarios that we forget the basics. @ruby494 you're dead on about newer guys overthinking it. I've been doing this 12 years and still catch myself chasing ghosts when it's something a five minute meter check would catch. The simple stuff really does fail first most of the time, we just don't want to believe it.
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See it different honestly... I think experience teaches us that the simple stuff gets checked first cause it fails more often. Newer techs tend to overthink it cause they don't have the muscle memory yet. Sometimes the complex stuff is just what we remember from training videos instead of real life.
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