I was really disappointed to see it hand wired.
Kind of like telling Einstein he has bad penmanship.
Kind of like telling Einstein he has bad penmanship.
I agree. It's best that facts guide us forward rather then going down the rabbit hole of subjectivity.
Wrong!.......Einstein did not sell or otherwise supply what he did as a "product" to those who wanted it and those who wanted to use it.
However, you did, and therefore you owe it to your customers to supply a product with a reasonable level of good workmanship within it. You wouldn't buy a Tv that, although worked, was cobbled together in the manner you have seen fit to put yours together.
If you really want to get away with it.......t would be better and clearer to your customers if you stated up front on your ads that you have used a prototyping assembly process & components to make up your device. The electronics community and your customers deserve it don't you think?
It's not subjective......there exists basic expectations in selling an electronics product to the public.....and this is one of them.
Help ma boab, have some pride in what you make man, have some pride!
Ian.
I'm not getting away with anything. The construction doesn't bother the world minus those on this board.
Believe it or not, most of our purchasers just use the device as it was intended, without disassembling it, photographing it, having a fit over the soldering, and then posting petty criticism online.
My analogy using Einstein and his penmanship is a valid one, except to those who don't understand it
If you don't like the standard, send it back. I don't want my customers to pay for something they don't want.
Individual expectations of how an electronics device should or should not be constructed are irrelevant to how electronic devices should actually be constructed. Neatness is stressed in a shop environment, and workers derive self-esteem from tidiness and neatness. That is to the advantage of those they work for.
But the world is bigger than all that. Sometimes the design provides no solder pad, and sometimes there is no easy way around that. I provide a reliable product that outperforms everything else in its market tier. If you disagree, please provide experimental evidence.
I have pride in what we produce. We do the best we can in neatness of construction while maintaining capacitance low enough to prevent oscillation. If you don't like the soldering, don't buy the product.
Prefab boards haven't worked correctly, so we're still trying. Until we get one that works, the units will be hand made. All of the Fluke 732As were hand-made!
The build neatness has vastly improved, so most of the solder-criticism is also irrelevant presently.
Impugning our products because of criteria irrelevant to performance, and criteria produced by methods currently unavoidable in the manufacturing process is flawed.(Would you have us sell and inferior product that looks better underneath, or a superior product that isn't as neatly constructed?) If performance was equal, obviously I would choose prefab boards.
At first semester University I placed into graduate-level physics! There were a lot more students with neat class notes and neat soldering skills in first-semester undergraduate physics.
I don't come to this site to sell references. Although many people on this board have purchased from me. This board is irrelevant to our sales figures. Our facilities produce at maximum capacity, and we barely keep up with international demand. We are one of the few American companies that import raw material, and manufacture a product, integrating intellectual property to add value, products then to be sold abroad.
I actually just like to see the jealousy so present within the hearts of my unjust critics. Constructive critics please take no offense. Your feedback is much valued!
It's a kind of flattery. The deeper the jealousy, the more unattainable I have made my work, and the more I will find nitpicking over the minor but assailable aspects of our products.
I don't mean to criticize any member personally. I just want to make it clear that I read into the hearts of my critics, and I accept your flattery disguised as petty criticism.
It's what keeps me striving for even greater innovation and conquest. And it really only harms those who harbor the envy! You pride yourselves--some of you do--in producing an Internet link that will damage my enterprise.
If my unfair critics only realized that my associates see as I do--they see the jealousy and pettiness in some of the posts--that they are encouraged to purchase from a manufacturer who is willing to spend more money to hand-make the product, because this produces better performance for them.
The question as to who has the more valid stance: the members of this board or the remainder of the world, lies simply in numbers. The only people who have a problem with our product are those on this board. The remainder of the world voices no objection, and they are even thankful and complimentary toward us!
I must also state that we have an unconditional 100% money-back guarantee offered to any purchaser who doesn't like the product for ANY reason. The money-back guarantee is not dependent on the product's performance! Even if the product performs as spec'ed, nad/or--against clear warnings--the outer labels have been tampered with, the guarantee applies. Yet, only one person in the history of the product ever indicated he/she desired a refund, and that was someone on this board who had opened the unit.
Not only did he/she open the unit, but operated it open, and thus encountered an error. This buyer was also a person who violates common expectations for decent conduct among Internet users! I wouldn't have expected less than that such a person do harm to himself simply to spite someone else. I'm just answering several threads in this reply. Most of it is irrelevant to the poster.
Finally, it appears some members think I am the OP for this discussion thread, and that I came to EEVBlog seeking assistance for my product. Then, I proved myself uncooperative, mean, deranged, inept; and so my product must be flawed.
I did not start the thread. I did not come here looking for assistance. I came in response to an email I received reporting unfair criticism of my products in this thread. I simply wanted to offer a fair defense in the face of what I believed was unfair criticism: people impugning my product without having tested it.
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