Worth at least a skim by anyone interested in designing or repairing almost
anything electronic or in buying low cost 'bargain' electronic products* -
either in small quantity or for resale.
Many will find it worth reading in more detail. (Most of us could learn
quite a lot from this man).

An extremely worthwhile account of one man's extended efforts to turn a
piece of badly designed badly & incompetently assembled rubbish into the
pure sine wave 3.5 kW 12V to 230 VAC inverter that it claimed and initially
appeared to be.

             http://ludens.cl/Electron/chinverter/chinverter.html

The account is 'fun reading' in its own right for electrical engineers and
their ilk BUT is also an extremely good study on how and how not to design
and build things, what goes wrong, what it takes to turn a number of a good
design concepts into bad ones and more.


                Russell


* Taiwanese in this case, and such products will usually be Asian sourced
due to the cost aspects, but applies to product from almost anywhere. Very
broadly, Taiwanese products on average tend to be better than mainland
Chinese ones, but this demonstrates how bad an apparently functional
Taiwanese product can be.
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