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Ventilator made from car parts
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SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: madires on April 06, 2020, 11:00:27 am ---Unfortunately all those quickly hacked together ventilators will become e-junk after we'll have survived the corona virus, because none of them will get a standard approval. All they get is a temporary emergency permission.

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I'm waiting to see if they'll even get that.
bd139:
Indeed. I doubt they will get approval any time soon because quite frankly it's a shitty idea which will lead to even shittier headlines.

"Dyson blows out my nan's lungs"

Also my why the fuck do two vacuum cleaner companies jump up to the cause suddenly. That's like hiring the bin guys to sort your IT problem out.
Simon:
Dyson got themselves an article all to themselves on the BBC website. But the BBC are useless. They take very little facts to make something up and they keep editing the damn articles.
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: bd139 on April 06, 2020, 01:30:51 pm ---Also my why the fuck do two vacuum cleaner companies jump up to the cause suddenly. That's like hiring the bin guys to sort your IT problem out.

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Ahah. Well, you could argue that companies with good knowledge and technology for pushing air in and out are better positioned to do this than others.
Unfortunately, the air pushing part is only a very small part (however weird that may sound to the layman) of the design of a medical ventilator.

And that's the same point with many, if not most of current ventilator projects that are blooming. People are focusing (so to speak...) on just the tip of the iceberg.

Meanwhile, that's some "free" advertising for companies that are currently (like many others) experiencing a drastic slowdown in sales.
The car industry in particular has seen something like (from what I've seen recently) -70% decrease in sales in the last month in countries that have implemented confinement.
drussell:

--- Quote from: wraper on April 06, 2020, 09:37:31 am ---
--- Quote from: drussell on April 06, 2020, 07:52:55 am ---Not that I think they should be creating a new design either, but they did at least realize some of the basics.

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They should. In the begging of the video guy says they design it in this way to not tap into limited existing ventilator supply chain. You can only make as many devices as parts you can source.
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Indeed.  I think it would be more helpful if they were able to manufacture parts required for existing designs to be able to ramp up production more quickly.
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