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I'm pretty good at finding why things didn't work. I used to spend a lot of time doing that. I'm also good at fixing a lot of things that didn't work, or at least proposing how.

One time we were getting boards that couldn't read the light sensor. I found there was a bad capacitor causing it. The cap was bigger than most others and the thermal stress of manufacturing caused it to crack imperceptibly. This meant the voltage was unstable and the sensor didn't work right. The manufacturer was able to change their solder oven settings to reduce the stress on that part and the problem stopped being manufactured.