Dalibor, of course that was a dream price.... :-) However, it does make one wonder -- if there is a tube vendor that you could license to produce the tube in higher quantities, more efficiently, probably even with a higher yeild and lower costs. The problem would of course be -- that after a few thousand tubes, perhaps a single production run, the market would be saturated for a long time. Terry
On Monday, February 9, 2015 at 6:15:44 AM UTC-6, Dalibor wrote: > Thank You Jens for promo, I am glad You like the tube! > > Terry S: As for the volume production, I do my best, but I am not able to > produce more than 10-15 tubes per month. I develop various equipment > (pumping systems, induction heaters, power supplies, testers, fixtures, > jigs...) or procedures (pumping times, material behaviour in vacuum test, > lifetime tests...) most of the time , the manufacture itself takes less > than half of actual working time. > > As for the price, $50 is unfortunately unrealistic target. Lets take USA > manufacturer National as an example, they sold a NL-7037 (50mm digit tube) > for USD 19/each (if You took 100+ pcs) in 1969. When we take the inflation, > the actual price in today's value of USD would be $122/each. They produced > large amounts of tubes by then, using automated machines for all the > manufacture steps except the inner system assembly - this decreased the > price significantly, but despite this fact, it was still expensive. And now > imagine that I make all the steps by hand, spending really lot of time on > every tube. Also every piece of the vacuum related equipment is very > expensive (e.g. new turbo pump I use $4k, roughing pump $2k, gauge > $1.5k...), so covering this from income from the tubes is practically > imposible. > Referenced pricelist: > http://www.tube-tester.com/sites/nixie/dat_arch/National_price.pdf > > Greg P: I already have some plans for bigger tube, but it will take some > time to make it real ;-) > > Best regards, > > Dalibor Farny > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/0670adda-31e6-475f-82ff-1e67c4984746%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
