> That does not exactly raise my confidence in the engineering
> behind the part of the circuit that is shown

"a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" ?

A potentially, no pun intended, harmful circuit that raises
as many questions (if you know you ask them that is) as
it answers. In a situation like this I would much rather
over-engineer for safety's sake

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