AvE: BOLTR: Juicero, Cold Press Juicer for Rich Weirdos

[kevm14]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ

It's like....too good. And sold at a loss. 'Cause venture capitalism?

[kevm14]

The machine may have bombed, but someone got an entire design apprenticeship during its development. It's like it's been made to medical equipment standards. That's a proverbial shit-ton of RF suppression on the input. Literally just everything thrown at it... twice. The toroidal cores are common mode suppressors that cancel out electrical noise that goes out the live and neutral simultaneously by creating counteracting magnetic fields. Then there's plenty of X2 caps across the mains and possibly even class Y from either led to ground. The 330V thing is common and allows common circuitry to be used for 120V and 230V supplies. With 230V supplies it's the peak full wave rectified supply and with 120 it's usually through a voltage doubler smoothed to peak voltage.
It's like someone said "What a shit idea for a product. But let's do it really well anyway."

[kevm14]

Oh yeah, the company is going out of business as of last month.

[kevm14]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVmppyflS0

More. With hackery.

He makes a good point about this actually being under-engineered despite being very beautiful even internally. Turns out good engineering is coming up with a solution under constraints. This machine appears to have had no cost constraints so the argument is, anyone can do overkill. Achieving the goal for an economical price with reliability is good engineering. You know, like the LS.