verbatim wrote:...
The goal is to UNDERSTAND how the ResMed power supply and sense circuitry works.
That goal of understanding is valid, whether or not anyone actually builds the circuit.
I have absolutely nothing against your building and testing this gadget. I hope you go for it! Please build it, test it out, run it for a while on a few machines and report back.
But what you've done is to present someone else's work, ranted at great length, alienated everyone on the site, but actually produced nothing!
verbatim wrote:
What is your argument against trying to UNDERSTAND how the ResMed proprietary circuit works?
You might be skeptical of its merits were it to be built (and you should be), and you might want to see concrete tests and proof of feasibility before you, yourself, would build one; but you are not "afraid" of understanding a simple diagram, are you?
Trust me, I'm just about the most curious person you'll ever meet. When if you do really figure it out I'd like to see it, because I am truly curious why Resmed made this design decision. But you've produced a few hundred words of interesting stuff, and many thousands of on why we MUST be supportive of this effort, and many thousands more words on why everyone who doesn't agree with you is an idiot. Not a particularly compelling argument. If this was something the actually mattered, it would be more interesting. But in the end almost no one cares.
verbatim wrote:
In that vein of your hospital-room example, I could give you a similar example of two neighbors, one of whom UNDERSTANDS things, while the other doesn't.
- The one who doesn't understand things has a dead 12V battery after three days of a long-term power outage
- The one who understands things is sleeping well, with plenty of reserve power, given the same outlay in cost!
Wrong - you're not talking about something that will greatly improve efficiency, you're just talking about saving a few bucks by bypassing some circuitry that some engineer (or maybe marketing person) thought was needed.
verbatim wrote:
You sail expensive sailboats, right?
[... lots of drivel about sailing ...]
But, for the very few who want to win the race, UNDERSTANDING is the first thing about racing.
Don't you agree?
The question is, what race are you trying to win?
Again, I have nothing against knowledge. Go ahead, learn whatever floats your boat. The problem here is that you seem to think this issue is important when in reality no one cares! In reality, out of the 78896 members of this forum, there may be 5 members who would give this more than a simple "that's interesting."