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The battery work-around to low power mains supply seems it could serve a niche. Magnetic knobs seem like a great idea, and the 10kW max power level seems intri
by jacknews 3y ago
The battery work-around to low power mains supply seems it could serve a niche. Magnetic knobs seem like a great idea, and the 10kW max power level seems intriguing - I'd like to know what extra capabilities that allows.
Otherwise, this thing looks like an expensive maintenance nightmare. Those lcd's will break. There's obviously firmware which will rot, and who knows if it's going to hang and start outputting 10KW while cooking your french omelette. Is the UI even usable, or a random cacophony of menus? The battery has a limited life, and will be taking some fairly punishing spikes, etc. I would be interested in some of these ideas in a more modular form.
- AlexandrB 3y ago> Otherwise, this thing looks like an expensive maintenance nightmare. Indeed. Our house has an electric stove from, probably, the 1960s. Complete with screw-in fuses. That's ~60 years of operation now. This thing will last 10 years tops. Their marketing talks a lot about "a sustainable future", but that doesn't jive with a future where major appliances have to be scrapped and replaced every 10 years or less.
- stickfigure 3y agoI have a similar electric stove, and yeah, it still delivers a terrible cooking experience decades later. We're going to replace it in a kitchen remodel soon. Induction is a better experience, and if it means replacing hardware every 10 years, so be it.
- jacknews 3y agoBut it doesn't have to be disposable. All the major components for induction cookers are commodified (coils, IGBTs, etc), it's simply a matter of making the whole thing more modular (particularly, separate the UI from the induction control), and for someone to make an actually-good induction control microcontroller/firmware package as a module.