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On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 9:51 AM, joem joem@martindale-electric.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 09:26 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 8:11 AM, joem joem@martindale-electric.co.uk wrote:
Luke: I got the latest board costed up and its <$50 per EOMA with 2GB (not going split resources at this stage to make the 1GB).
samples testing. we cannot go to production levels without sample testing, 5pcs.
It costs factories between USD1000 to USD2000 to try to organise something like this. I normally place order for between 10 and 20 pieces to meet these expenses.
I check with them for best quantity.
that gives between 10 to 20 people to get units to... which may or may not work. i want roughly a 30:70% mix of 1gbyte and 2gbyte of samples - it's just in case the 2gbyte doesn't work.
But it comes with a lead balloon MOQ of 2000 for the PCMCIA case because they are only made in Taiwan.
litkconn is not taiwanese. the factory's in guangdong.
Thank you, I run that past them again.
the connector is from litkconn, it's on the BOM, so why did they go to the trouble of finding a manufacturer with whom we have absolutely no relationship?? i mean, it's good to know that there are still companies out there not just litkconn, but the chances are that they would order completely and utterly the wrong PCMCIA connector at totally the wrong height.
been through this already with litkconn, selected the right part, even designed the PCB and chose the PCB thickness to be *precisely* inside the litkconn housing.
so litkconn already know exactly which part - it's their part number 68F. price for case, plastic and connector should be around $1.50. that's plastic with the middle cut out. if we get over 2k orders we can get the punch made with them for $6k to make the proper holes.
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