"What we faced before were intermittent faults," he went on.

For example, some intermittent faults in medical life support equipment can kill a patient.

Intermittent faults are common to all branches of technology, including computer software.

The more complex the system or mechanism involved, the greater the likelihood of an intermittent fault.

"How about some kind of intermittent fault?"

If an intermittent fault occurs for long enough during troubleshooting, it can be identified and resolved in the usual way.

"And we're getting intermittent faults from Three, mum," Michaels finished.

Intermittent faults are caused by non-environmental conditions such as:

An intermittent fault is caused by several contributing factors, some of which may be effectively random, which occur simultaneously.

This was actually caused by an integrated circuit failure, though an intermittent fault such as this is less likely than a total failure.

Some techniques to resolve intermittent faults are:

These tended to corrode (especially the ones in the engine compartment), causing all manner of intermittent faults which were hard to diagnose.

Temporary faults include transient and intermittent faults.

A successfully corrected intermittent fault can also be reported to the OS to provide information for Predictive failure analysis.

Spread-spectrum time domain reflectometry is used in detecting intermittent faults in live wires.

Although a grey crystalline joint will often form a sufficiently working joint for non-critical applications, the circuit might have an intermittent fault because of this.

Intermittent faults occur due to a weak system component, e.g. circuit parameters degrading, leading to errors that are likely to recur.

Another quirk was that many intermittent faults were due to faulty connectors and could be temporarily fixed by briskly strumming the card handles.

Patch cords were expensive, could be damaged by use (creating hard-to-find intermittent faults), and made complex patches difficult and time-consuming to recreate.

Both continuous and intermittent fault movements also occurred, with individual fault surfaces on both sides of the Snake Range thinning and stretching.

Transient and intermittent faults can typically be handled by detection and correction by e.g. ECC codes or instruction replay (see below).

Time domain reflectometry, specifically spread spectrum time domain reflectometry is used for aviation wiring for both preventative maintenance and intermittent fault location.

For example, spread-spectrum time-domain reflectometry (SSTDR) is used to detect intermittent faults in complex and high-noise systems such as aircraft wiring.

You should ask Virgin to exchange your box, or despatch an engineer though intermittent faults like this one have an unfortunate habit of getting better as soon as the van draws up.

One possible cause of fires in airplanes are wiring problems that involve intermittent faults, such as wires with breached insulation touching each other, having water dripping on them, or short circuits.

A transient fault will then clear and the power-line can be returned to service.

Two-thirds of those anomalies were repeat offenders: evidence of systems with some real but transient fault.

Transient faults may still cause damage both at the site of the original fault or elsewhere in the network as fault current is generated.

It is often used to describe a transient fault that corrects itself, and is therefore difficult to troubleshoot.

Typical examples of transient faults include:

A transient fault is a fault that is no longer present if power is disconnected for a short time and then restored.

A transient fault is a momentary (a few seconds) loss of power typically caused by a temporary fault on a power line.

The property of self-stabilization enables a distributed algorithm to recover from a transient fault regardless of its nature.

Transient faults are hard to detect, and there are no well defined faults to detect.

The Tricon provides error-free, uninterrupted control in the presence of either hard failures of components, or transient faults from internal or external sources.

Errors in RAM introduced by transient faults are often called software errors, the following examples are possible factors that will contribute to transient faults :

Momentary power outages are often caused by transient faults, such as lightning strikes or vegetation contacting a power line, and many utilities use reclosers to automatically restore power quickly after a transient fault has cleared.

If the fault affects the customer's own distribution circuit, they may see one or several brief, complete outages followed by either normal operation (as the autorecloser succeeds in restoring power after a transient fault has cleared) or a complete outage of service (as the autorecloser exhausts its retries).

Though a volatile fault lies under Xinjiang, causing frequent tremors, casualties are generally light.

The Divisions Vast Gulf Separates Rich and Poor It was race that drew the world's attention to South Africa, and race remains the country's most volatile fault line - particularly since the divisions of race and economic class are so nearly identical.

Almost instantly the '06 quake transformed Oakland, which sits directly across the bay (a city that, it turns out, sits atop an even more volatile fault line), "from a kind of pastoral suburb into a city," according to Mr. Starr, the former state librarian and now a professor of history at the University of Southern California.