Sometimes, yes, but sometimes it's not important which thing you did fixed it. Sometimes it's more important just to get it fixed and get on to the next task, especially when the verification process to test it and see if it's fixed is time consuming.
That may be true in an industrial application where you need to get the line back up. I think that if a lamp wasn't working and you turned off a breaker, replaced the bulb in a lamp, put a new receptacle in and reset the breaker and it works, you've done a disservice to yourself and the client when he asks you what was wrong and you say I don't know. You may have gotten the light working again, but you could still have a bad cord that causes it to go out again and you don't really know why it wasn't working. Just my two cents.
As I said, sometimes...
Fair enough.As I said, sometimes...
I used to hate when the solution would come to me in the middle of the night.
I used to hate when the solution would come to me in the middle of the night.
Listen but verify.
Not necessarily true. Someone else wired this kitchen remodel and at the same time they were trying to keep the kitchen working. So while no drywall the sink and all the appliances still were being used. So they tell me that there's a dead short and that the lights and some receptacles and the dishwasher don't work. Ok those aren't all tied together so we have a couple of things going on. Find a problem and fix it, still a dead short, look around some more find another problem, fix it, still a dead short. Find another (obviously someone didn't know what they were doing). Find one more thing, still a dead short. OK going home, I've been here several hours. Laying in bed thinking, he said this doesn't work, this doesn't work, dishwasher doesn't work. DISHWASHER! Show up at 7:00 in the morning, disconnect dishwasher and every thing is fine. They had shot 220 to it at some point during the other problems and had fried the motor, but I had kind of discounted it at the time.
