alex_nguyen•24d agoProlific Poster

Threw a controller board in the trash yesterday before I tested it

Worked a 12-hour shift last Wednesday on a 20-year-old Otis in a downtown office building. The door controller was throwing errors left and right so I swapped it out, tossed the old one in the scrap bin. Today the new board did the exact same thing. Turns out it was a bad wiring connector on the car top, not the controller at all. Dug through the trash compactor for 20 minutes to fish out the old board and it fired right up. Anyone else ever toss a part too quick and regret it?

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johnson.jesse24d ago

Used to think I was too careful with parts because I'd hang onto junk forever. A few bad experiences with dead boards sitting on my shelf finally got me to start tossing stuff more often. Then last month I trashed a perfectly good drive module because I blamed it for a fault that was actually a broken wire in the conduit. Dug it out of the dumpster the next morning and it worked fine. That changed my whole view on throwing things away until I'm absolutely sure what the real problem is.

the_sam24d ago

Oh man, that's brutal.

felixramirez24d agoTop Commenter

About 24 hours for the swelling to go down and another three days before I could open my mouth wide enough to eat a sandwich.