which is basically like shitting on the engineers responsible for producing this unit.
Engineers weren't responible for this unit......some dumb ass company head was. The engineer who did the leg work will have been given a SOW, i.e. spec and price point to design to and he's done a pretty good job. He'll be more than happy!
Kudos to Dave for honesty on the camera and the pcb layout etc. The world need more honesty like this to help spread the word so that same dumb ass company head as above doesn't produce more of the same crap.
Ian.
The west country didn't need very much effort to marketing a product,
But china cannot make a expensive and quality product without large Investment, because nobody will buy them.
Few year ago i fix a testing equipment with rant more then Dave rant..
The casing is quite nice( build by CNC milling machine)
but inside is very shitty..
they use $.05 sensor, in prototype board for 7805 and biasing for sensor, with very bad soldering.
off the self MCS-51 + 8 bit ADC , Chaepo 3 digit LCD.
One thing that make me mad.. it have $15K price tag
they buy it because it made in USA and have ASTM standard...
So, when there is a shitty overpriced product from rich country, it's normal.
But, cheapo product with poor spec with good production step from china.It have to go to trash bin...