So it's a bit out of your control.. can you try and pick/find some competent/hands-on person and tell them what to do?
Huh, got examples... I've got a long list of stuff built buy science types, unless Faraday and such don't count as "science types". There's all this anti-science stuff on the right which disturbs me. Science is how I/we understand stuff.
Right I'll sometimes hack some R's and C's onto a circuit to make the time response look better, there's art to science too... that's part of the fun.
George H.