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This is a semi-advertisement for someone's self-published book and PCB kit. The main ingredient is a 26kg toroid transformer whose coils you have to wind yours
by throwaway81523 5y ago
This is a semi-advertisement for someone's self-published book and PCB kit. The main ingredient is a 26kg toroid transformer whose coils you have to wind yourself. The book explains how to do that. I guess it's cool that people do this stuff, and it would be nice to see on an off gridder forum. On HN, I feel a little bit spammed.
- ComputerGuru 5y agoSame. There is no real technical content in the link, just vague hints and repeated (see the book for more info) all over. The page doesn’t make it seem like it’s a description of the book - it makes it seem like “here’s how to build this” then doesn’t deliver. Also, I have no problems with making money from the book but saying “we’re not publishing this to make money” then seeing the book is a hundred pounds was kind of a big question mark for me. That and the fact that the page starts off by talking about how it’s all open source and shared with the community was really incongruent.
- throwaway81523 5y agoThe 100 pounds is for the book and 3 PCB's. The book is on the expensive side but it's much less than 100 pounds.