The Japanese (Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, Toshiba) have far higher quality power supplies than the Chinese. In Canada in the 70'80's the likes of Hammond , Brown and others were pioneers of SMPS as well as many others pioneered the technology in USA and worldwide. The Chinese just mastered the low labour rates and cost-reductions with volumes of local parts with clever packaging. The Chinese also have more engineers than the ROTW.Hi,
I have been fixing up a bog standard couple of hard switched converters for a customer.
Its bare basic , “electrician level” electronics, but tomorrow, I am being taken to their customer, to answer questions about “giving away secrets”…in relation to these bog standard hard switched converters.
I have never given away real secrets about anything……and these circuits that I have been working on are literally "electrician level" SMPS designs……the sort of thing you get demo boards on for a couple of quid. The sort of thing that App notes talk about in droves.
The sort of schems that are strewn all over the internet.
They are the sorts of SMPS that a 14 year old could design. It’s the simplest level of electronics….no more secret than an electricians knowledge.
It’s the knowledge of SMPS, that got outsourced to the Pacific Rim years ago…….as if there are secrets in this?.....secrets no way. If it was secret, why all SMPS work is outsourced to the Pacific Rim? They blame people like me for the fact that China is a million miles ahead of the west in SMPS design. Its the west's own fault...for outsourcing massive amounts of SMPS work to the Far East.
Has anybody else ever been to one of these inquests? What happens?
Yes.Can a man live with the woman he loves, openly and for life, without getting the permission of a third party first which represents a social or religious authority?
May I guess that the way you live with your wife as a family is also followed by most men, if not all, in your region?Yes.
Mike.
I don't do sky fairies.May I guess that the way you live with your wife as a family is also followed by most men, if not all, in your region?
I'm with Mike and I have no desire to share the details of my personal life. It is quite simply none of your GD business.I don't do sky fairies.
Mike.
I believe you. You live in USA, right? It seems I couldn't be clear enough.I don't think I have ever met anyone who has no right to talk to me. I think that would be kind of hard to accomplish. Theories are a dime a bale in 10 bale lots.
Yes, I have lived here all my life. I have worked in other countries including Europe and Japan. I have never worked in an environment where there was secret information so I cannot relate to what you are talking about. We all knew about TTL Integrated Circuits, how to build a processor from them, how to program that processor, and how to build useful peripheral devices like card readers, paper tape readers and punches, printers, and magnetic tape drives. It never once occurred to me that there was any reason not to share what we knew for the benefit of both companies. For the record our European and Japanese customers were far larger as corporate enterprises than we were. Our best year (ca. 1976) was maybe $78 million. That's small change by today's standards. Even back then their revenues were in the billions.I believe you. You live in USA, right? It seems I couldn't be clear enough.
I don't see any ruling system in the world, other than the American one, having the power to impose on those who work in its big companies to close their doors if contacted from America. Only the powerful American system can do it.
I mean, we talk to each other here as friends because, on my side, I am a free person and, on your side, I guess you don't work now in a big company/corporation which has to observe the American regulations (otherwise, I am afraid you are breaking the rules).
After all, in every region there are pros and cons. There is no paradise on earth. Fortunately, as I said on a previous post (on another thread),"almost all humans around the world are gifted to see as natural, if not good, whatever they became familiar to since their childhood". The good news is that, despite the big differences in cultures, I didn't meet yet a person, from anywhere in the world, who sees himself wrong in what he believes as being good and bad in life. I concluded that believing a truth is actually relative to the observer (much like in Relativity). Only in great speeches one may hear of absolute/universal truths (said political or religious). For example, is the scientific progress good or bad in human's life? Well, it depends on the observer if he is a victim of this progress or not
I don't do sky fairies.
Mike.
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