Forget it DynoPower...

You're just going to get continually lectured and harassed because you bought something that has peeved a few others.

And they won't stop trying to lay a guilt-trip on you. You bad boy you - shame on you. For buying something on the open market. They would much rather have a go at you than confront the perpetrator of the alleged 'copy'. They will hijack every single thread that has anything to do with this product. They will try to intimidate, belittle, insult and bully you because *how dare you*, you purchased something that they believe is theirs. In a niche market where every micro turbine is basically the same.

I'd like to know, for example, who was the first to introduce the self-starting Turbine. And if they receive royalties from every other manufacturer out there who is using the same clutched-electric-motor-at-the-front principal. And if the home-hobbyists such as yourself receive any recompense for the years of blood, sweat and tears they did in pioneering what we now have today. YOUR own R&D that you gladly persevered in the name of the Hobby. Your sharing of ideas and camaraderie.

Then, suddenly, someone decides to gather up all that they have gleaned from everyone else's hard work, and tries to call it their own. All in the pursuit of filthy money.

They conveniently forget that they are not the inventors - just hunters and gatherers. On-selling ideas that have come from intuitive and enthusiastic experimenters of days gone by. And then they finally come up with an idea of their own, and they are distraught that someone else would dare to mass-produce it.

Nup - you'll be flogging a dead horse in here. You’ll quickly notice that the same few will continually pop-up and start their whining and beatching on how you, by buying a legal product, are stealing from someone else. Probably the very same people who borrowed and collected everyone else's years of dedication and decided to call it their own.

And yet they still don't see that the root cause of this is their own manufacturing industries' greed for money that went to countries like China in the first place so that they could exploit the cheap labour conditions in order to make even more money. What they didn't see coming was that by doing this, they were selling their souls by investing in a foreign infrastructure that would one day turn around and bite them on the @rse. They helped to build the single most powerful manufacturing company in the world to tool-up physically and technologically. A country who's legacy after years of abuse puts them in a position to now be the abuser. And now the instigators are screaming blue bloody murder that they are getting it sold back to them.

Go figure...

BJ