Popular Post MarkusBarkus Posted April 13, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 13, 2021 Here is an old post re: EE Switch, FYI... ThunderData is a small OEM manufacturer in Guangdong, China. They designed a basic switch. Here is the board. It is pretty simple, nothing fancy, probably not more than about $30 assembled (for comparison, we spend 2.5 times that just on voltage regulators for the EtherREGEN): Then offer it themselves--with an inexpensive upgraded clock replacing the $0.30 oval crystal--as the Silent Angel Bonn N8. Here is a pic of it: They also offer it in a nicer case to other manufacturers, still with exact same circuits and clock. Here it is as the Nuprime Omnia SW-8: And the outside: And then as here it is branded by EnglishElectric as the 8Switch: How do I know all this? Because Ethan W., ThunderData's V.P. Sales & Marketing e-mailed me in January asking if UpTone would like to label and sell this same switch. (I of course demurred.) Out of respect and propriety I won't tell you the pricing I was quoted. Let's just say that if I bought in volume and sold them for the same $500 that Nuprime and English Electric are, our profit percentages would be about 3 times the margin we make on the EtherREGEN! Call me a fool, but I simply have no interest in selling other people's generic designs--even if they come in a nicer box. 87mpi, terry78, Stevem324 and 2 others 4 1 I'm MarkusBarkus and I approve this post. Link to comment
Popular Post MarkusBarkus Posted April 14, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 14, 2021 ...interesting. I viewed it as a public service. pl_svn, George Hincapie and R1200CL 2 1 I'm MarkusBarkus and I approve this post. Link to comment
MarkusBarkus Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 ...as an FYI reference point: when I re-posted the EE info, it was copied over from an Uptone sponsored thread on the JS White Paper, a thread started in March of 2020. The post is from August of 2020. I'm MarkusBarkus and I approve this post. Link to comment
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