Chapter 17
Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repair
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.—Russell Baker, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist
When automated lighting was in its infancy, two things were certain; it was sure to impress and it was sure to malfunction. Today it’s a different story. Most automated luminaires are far more reliable than their technological ancestors. Quality assurance engineers look at products and components through the filter of the “mean time between failure” or MTBF, and many components in automated luminaires now have remarkable MTBF.
It used to be that lamps had the shortest MTBF of all the components ...
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