Do they already have the speaker? Is it an amplified speaker? Is it used for anything else?
How much of your time will go into this? How much is your time worth? Can you bill the customer for your time? What about equipment? The CyberData SIP PAs are expensive, but they are also plug-and-play and very reliable, and have a good warranty. I would just use one of them and charge the customer either as a one-time purchase or a monthly lease. If you end up MacGyvering something, make sure you charge them for your time, if you screw around with it for a day there goes $400. Now, if you can come up with a $30 solution and you do these on a weekly basis, that's different. If $30 is really all the customer is willing to pay, maybe they should be doing it themselves or paying somebody else. Sounds like a money loser for you, unless they buy tons of other stuff from you and this would just be a loss leader to retain the customer. -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 5:16 PM To: Animal Farm <[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] VoIP Paging adapters/amplifiers It's been a couple years since I've installed a paging amplifier. I have used the Cyberdata amplifiers before, is there anything better/cheaper out there now? The Cyberdata one's are still like $400+ I'm looking to cover a smallish shipping department, so 1 speaker is probably adequate. The boss did a website chat with Grandstream, who told him he can just plug a speaker into the $20 ATA (Without giving him any details as to how that is accomplished), I don't think it's quite that simple, but now he's convinced that this is a max $30 project. It looks like you could do an ATA to an analog paging amplifier for somewhere in the neighborhood of like $150+speakers, but that seems clunky.
