Hi Gerald. I am curious if there is any more information on this. Mouser shows 100 on order with no delivery date. Will a new run of the xMs ever make it to distributors or have we seen the last of them?
Thanks, Brian On Monday, September 8, 2014 1:59:45 PM UTC-4, Gerald wrote: > Well, all the data is out there to build their own. It is hard > to justify building these 10 at a time for people. Shutting down a line for > a day for setup and re-setup is expensive.If everyone gets together and can > get the quantity up to 500 and get a distributor to place an order, then we > can build,000 boards and make it possible. > > I guess me saying not for use in products and the reasons why > were valid after all. Again, all the information is there for anyone to > build as many as they like. I think we have a build planned for 500 for > Digikey, but I am not sure when. > > > Gerald > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> > On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Gerald Coley wrote: >> > >> >> Unless the distributors order boards, we do not build boards. We >> >> don't get orders but rarely every now and then. Lead time is about >> >> 12 weeks. We cannot build one or two boards. If we did it would cost >> >> about $500 board. We need a large order to make it worth doing. >> > >> > i'm curious ... given the regularity with which people ask for a BB >> > xM, what exactly is the appeal of that board? are there not newer >> > boards that bring the same features to the table? >> >> I know there's a few users who built their end product around the >> xM's.. (as it's still cheaper then a few of the som's available for >> the dm3730) >> >> Regards, >> >> >> -- >> Robert Nelson >> http://www.rcn-ee.com/ >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
