NCWayne,you are completely right.I think that there should at the minimum be a way to make all equipment run first mechanically,then add your computer crap as secondary,switch on or off as necessary.The way stuff is made now will make any mechanics life a lot harder whether or not you have the latest"software" installed in your laptop.Who is going to buy these million dollar piles of junk when the wires get old and corroded and it doesnt do anything its supposed to when you plug a laptop into it?Also what little I have seen of people using laptops to fix things is this,these people dont really know what the laptop is saying because its so general you could change lots of parts before you fixed it.If anybody was in a situation where you were being shot at,or in outer space,or just any circumstance where that machine had to run,the controll crap needs to be secondary,and run,go fast,first priority.This whole thing is about making it to where you have to take it to,or call the guy with the software on his computer crap,is just that,crap.Maybe for the price of this junk they should include a laptop,with the correct software,right on the machine,or not be allowed to sell it without it.It needs at the very least a switch to make it run and a way to troubleshoot it,or it is a piece of very expensive junk when it wont work.It should never take 3,2000 dollar wiring harnesses to make something run,and no way to tell which one is bad,software or not.There are such things as LEDs that could be lit green for good and red for bad,self diagnostics, on each of those wiring harnesses.There could be circuit breakers that kick when circuits are bad,and there can be laptops that plug in and tell you what is actually going on without the thousands of dollars of hookups and different software.Like one laptop fits all controls made.Makes sense to me.They could even make it wireless for what one of these things costs.The more that it seems like things are getting advanced,the more it seems like a few people want to take as much advantage of it as they can.The same thing happened when they first made cars,then along came mass production,and more and more standardization of parts,to where the stuff would run and you could work on it.Now it runs when it runs,but only the priveledged can work on it.That wont last very long,or there will be lots of junkyards with that stuff in it shortly.It doesnt really make a lot of difference who you can blame for it,it just needs to be fixed about the same time it started.The whole deal of not letting you know how to work on or fix something is a bad idea.
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