Over the last 26 years, since the founding of CAMI Research Inc., customers and friends have asked why the company would focus its efforts on such a mundane, low-tech, and uninteresting device as a cable tester, particularly since a variety of such devices already existed. On the surface, testing wiring assemblies might seem to be mundane. Instead, the incredible variety and richness of applications I describe below demonstrate that it is not.
While a simple LED circuit can show continuity in a wire, the technology needed to meet increasingly complex and demanding customer quality standards is as different from an LED circuit as lightning is from a lightning bug. I first learned this lesson in 1991, when we began work on the CableEye tester.