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Re: 2010 Lesson Learned: The inspectors

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Originally Posted by Jon Guy View Post
..... We did swap out a bunch of jags, but in the end it was two CAN cables that were open circuit (that we eventually found with a multimeter)......-- Jon
Finding the root cause is always a really good thing! Without it, there is always a bit of assumption and finger pointing that may or may not be substantiated. It's good to know it wasn't the Jag's.

Whenever you have a "bussed" environment, a failure in the buss can have variety of symptoms, some obvious, some not so obvious.

This also re-enforces the need to have quality cable connections and well built cables. Oh, and BTW, having a decent cable continuity tester is invaluable, and cheap too!
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