The Broken System: How IBC, Banks & Bureaucracy Are Destroying India’s Manufacturing Entrepreneurs
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My Story · The Su-Kam Years · Solar The Solar Projects — the installations that made us proud We started
My Story · The Su-Kam years The day we kept Wal-Mart’s stores running The Bharti–Walmart Easyday backup — a 25KVA
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Kunwer Sachdev Founder of Su-Kam · Inverter Man & Solar Man of India · Builder of India’s First Solar Digital
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How Su-Kam scaled from a single factory to 6 manufacturing plants across Gurgaon, Baddi and Katha. The Reliance-Temasek $10 million investment, the world-class corporate HQ, and the SMF battery factory — a dream project that taught one of the most expensive lessons in Indian manufacturing.
Between 2002 and 2005, Su-Kam launched three innovations that rewrote India’s power backup industry: the first DSP sine wave inverter (with Jagdeep Chauhan), the Solar Home Lighting System, and the ‘Home UPS’ — a new product category that the entire industry adopted within a year. Also: the first BEE 4-star inverter and how an airplane overhead panel inspired our LED indication system.
A customer’s daughter got shocked by a metal inverter. That incident led Kunwer Sachdev to create India’s first plastic-body inverter — the CHIC — which India Today called ‘Innovation of the Decade’. This is also the story of the Fairy Queen, an inverter shaped like a locomotive engine that tragically failed because of one small packaging mistake.
In 1998, a rude service technician told Kunwer Sachdev he wouldn’t understand inverter technology. That insult sparked two years of R&D, exploding MOSFETs, and the birth of India’s first MOSFET-based single-battery inverter. Featuring original photos of the first Su-Kam inverter, the Times of India ‘Digital Wonders’ article, and the R&D lab where it all happened.