Teardown request: a modern induction cooktop

[jeremy]

hi all,

I'm very curious to see a decent teardown and explanation of a good quality, modern induction stove. I know how they work in principle, but it would be cool to see a Dave/mike-style teardown full of "hey, that's funny, why did they do that? Oh that's why..." dialog.

Can anyone recommend one?

Thanks.

[Seekonk]

I'd like to see that too.  I just got an older GE counter top unit (think it is Hitachi) at my camp and want to use it for lunchtime cooking.  I have 60V DC from my solar panels, next year it will be 75V.  I use excess solar power to heat water for showers now.  Have closed up the camp this year so can't investigate till next year.  I would like to run it directly off raw solar panel DC if I can or at worst a small boost converter at 600W maximum.  Think the power of the unit is 1KW.  Don't know if they vary pwm to adjust power or they do phase angle off AC mains and let inverter run with whatever it gets. Camp runs on micro controller so all loads are prioritized for best efficiency.