This is a threat were you can put all stuff you dont like or hate about you can buy it in a store engeneering.What i dont like in engenneering is why why WHY! have a double sided board and onley solder the bottom but not the top!
or put 0.75mm2 cable on a 200 watt rms output or worse 1.5mm2 on a 2kw output etc etc.
why do you want to save a few frikking cents on that?
Do they really care about if i whont buy it when instead of 500 bucks it's 501 or 2 or 3 bucks!
Jeez it is what it is and it cost what it cost.
Dont make great design but save on the electronics part!
and yes i know 1 cent on a million devices is big but that 1 cent ppl will pay for it!
be smart make it good!
greets Davy
ohhhhhh and i hate components thate are not placed correctly on all boards i solder you will find all is perfect and straight!
One place I worked made vehicle simulators.
For some reason,they insisted upon using automotive interconnecting wire to connect between the peripherals & the main board,although they were only carrying a few mA at most.
This stuff was hard to solder to PCBs,made for thick,clunky,bundled cable forms,& so on.
And,why do some Engineers have this fetish for miniaturisation,even when all the other associated components are large?
A Pye TV transmitter used extremely small HT rectifier devices,which had an operating life in the order of months.
We were going through them so fast that at one point we were considering sending someone to the supplier in the UK
to bring back a suitcase full.
NEC use big,clunky ,rectifiers with lifetimes measured in decades.
I don't care if the components are a bit untidy looking,as long as they are solidly soldered in place.
In another life,I had a lot to do with maintenance of TV Picture Monitors.
Sony boards looked "as rough as guts",yet their Monitors very seldom gave trouble.
Barco boards were beautiful,but they were much more unreliable.
They also made the "Thru-holes" in their boards so small that leads were virtually "jammed" in place.
Removing components without damaging tracks was a "fine art".