gamebrigada :
I would love to see you tear down some "Enterprise" grade UPS's.
As much as I would like to accommodate your wish, the shipping bill alone (with batteries) to get one on my bench would nuke most of the revenue I might earn from writing the story!
Of course, if APC, Tripp-Lite, CyberPower, Eaton or other wants to send one in postage-and-duties-paid, I'd gladly take it. If they or one of their customers have some lying around near Longueuil or Montreal, I may be able to go pick some up.
jeyman :
With your attention to detail and obvious subject knowledge, I think your articles could be made even better with a little more time and care.
Thanks for the comments. I do expect readers to go read past stories if they want to read more about the tear downs I am referring to and the stories does include links to those stories, though some of them do get lost or shuffled around through the THG editorial process. Here, they got lumped together on slide #11 instead of the slides where I originally provided the links.
Why am I constraining myself to the picture story format? It boils down to the massive compensation discrepancy between picture stories and review format. For me to buy $100-200 devices for tear down purposes, I need to hit the picture story compensation cap. To hit the same compensation with the review format at my current rate, I would need to write 16+ pages and that would mean a lot of padding with rehashing since tear downs have 9-10 pages worth of text in 'em. With the picture story format, I can focus on what I consider most relevant and preferably fresh instead of worrying about the character count.