About 2000 is my estimate. Sent from my iPhone
> On Nov 29, 2020, at 1:28 PM, Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The whole array looks to be one PCB ~~ 20" in diameter. A lot of silicon > parts, but there appears to also be a lot of repeat parts. How many patches? > Hundreds? > > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > On 11/29/2020 12:24 PM, Steve Jones wrote: >> This actually excites me for our industry. Everybody is all up in arms that >> theyll take our customers. Someone is always trying to take our customers. >> What excites me is the tracking capability. Autoalignment is expensive tech, >> out of our price range. But with starlink ultimately going to have to scale >> production to cost, I see technology leases happening and the price coming >> way down, low enough to be viable for our market, at least our higher end >> gear. >> I dont know the tolerances in the alignment on these, may be loose since it >> hits an array, but it's still got to be fairly tight to be able to maintain >> aggregate system capacity. >> Can you imagine, using something like cnheat to ID the best install spot, >> and send the tech out to just mount and it auto aligns, or to go self >> install. >> Realignment truck rolls, gone. If the aligner could turn enough, you could >> even move customers to new sites remotely. >> I'd bet the assemblies would get into the 20 to 50 dollar range on the SM >> costs. Power demand would be the killer though >> >> On Sun, Nov 29, 2020, 1:28 PM Darin Steffl <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Most guesses are upwards of $2,500 to manufacturer. Phased array antennas >>> are very expensive and before they put a lot of effort into reducing cost, >>> most said minimum $10k for this type of antenna. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 29, 2020, 12:36 PM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> That antenna array alone is probably costing them $20 and another $20 of >>>> chips on it. I am guessing it is north of $100 to make. >>>> >>>> From: Ken Hohhof >>>> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2020 11:28 AM >>>> To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' >>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] YouTuber dismantles the SpaceX Starlink 'Dishy >>>> McFlatface' Antenna! [V >>>> >>>> What do you estimate it would cost them to manufacture in large >>>> quantities? People are probably assuming it’s a $10 item at some point, >>>> but it looks expensive to me, even at scale. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF >>>> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2020 11:49 AM >>>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> >>>> Cc: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] YouTuber dismantles the SpaceX Starlink 'Dishy >>>> McFlatface' Antenna! [V >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Clever motor assembly. Be fun to use that same mechanism for a solar >>>> panel. I may have to give that a try. >>>> >>>> So, it does steer mechanically. Almost has to to maximize the gain. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Looks like roughly 2000 patches. >>>> >>>> Looks like roughly 500 chips feeding them. So a 4 patch array fed by a >>>> T/R-LNA - power amp. 4-6 of those clusters fed into a larger chip that >>>> probably does the phasing for steering. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> So the antenna is just a whole lot of simple in a very massive scale. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> From: Jaime Solorza >>>> >>>> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2020 8:24 AM >>>> >>>> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group >>>> >>>> Subject: [AFMUG] YouTuber dismantles the SpaceX Starlink 'Dishy >>>> McFlatface' Antenna! [V >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/starlink-teardown >>>> >>>> -- >>>> AF mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>> >>>> -- >>>> AF mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>> -- >>>> AF mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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