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I'm from the Maldives. At our place, a lot of cheap, unbranded Chinese manufactured appliances are used. These sometimes come with a very similar name of a well known brand or a local name that's totally strange. But the name is not the problem. The problem is that these products don't come with any proper documents. Sometimes there are small leaflets that show how to do the first time connections or installations with instructions in broken or almost unreadable English. This is not always the case. At other times it's even worse. Whatever the few instructions they provide are presented fully in Chinese and there would not be a single English word. Let's put aside the cheap, unbranded products. I know that it's not decent to ask for technical advice on those. But I'm having another problem that I'd like to ask for your advice for a solution. In our local market, there are some decent, high quality appliances that are made from Asian countries, such as Singapore and Malaysia. These appliances are not as famous as the Samsungs, Hitachis, LGs, or Bosches. So let's say these decent Asian-made appliances fall into the mid-class. These mid-class appliances comprise 50% of the market. This means a lot to a full time appliance repair technician. The problem with these appliances is that it's difficult to get their documents online. The locals are not so aware of the importance of the documents that come with the appliances when they are sold because they are used to PCM repair methodology. So, in most of the cases, they throw away the papers along with the cardboard boxes that conceal the appliances. My question is, do you think that I should attempt to repair these ones without the schematics and the wiring diagrams or should I just say a big "no" and leave? I'm asking this because, as I said, it's 50% of the game. I hope someone would pop with good advice and extra tips to help me make a decision.