I've read the thread and followed along and, as was mentioned, every story has two sides and I'm not offering comments or anything to do with the situation but, in reading Andy's reply, a question arose in my head. I'm not asking this to be a smart ass or anything. I'm asking for the educational aspect so I know how to go about testing one for future reference. (Should I ever decide to sell one of mine and make sure it works correctly or... want to put one through it's paces after buying a used one from someone else.)
I know Andy has a lot of familiarity with the QM so, my question is, what steps have you come up with to test a card out? Are there some sort of step by step checks you go through to determine if everything is functioning correctly? I'm not an electronics wizard by any stretch of the imagination and all I know is, does Showtime start and run the show? Or, does LD2000 start and run? I've had some error messages with them that have been solved by cleaning the gold electrical contacts with a pencil eraser and then following up with an alcohol swab. That ends my diagnostic abilities. So, aside from that, what specific "tests" would one run? What have you found works that would potentially discover problems in a QM?
Hoping to get a little positive education for everyone out of what is a very unfortunate thread and set of circumstances.