On 18 Dec 2011 at 20:39, Tony Duell wrote:
Anyway, today I had to crack open the wall-wart that
powers it, a
simple 13.5V (nominal) thing. Crack open being right, it's gleud
together. Anyway, I had 2 suprised : 1) The trnasformer hs an
internal thermal fuse in series with the primary-- this thing is
safer than a lot of wall warts out there .
My experience of Chinese goods before 1990 was that they were roughly
finished, but that they were fairly accurate reproductions of Western
gear.
The slide toward cheapness at any cost is relatively recent. I think
it's less endemic to Chinese way of thinking than it's more of an
economic tool. Sort of an anti-Deming approach.
--Chuck