This might be doable. My main concern is where to set the cost so that (quantity sold) * (price per unit) > (cost to develop and manufacture said quantity). Or if that condition is even achievable.
Are you envisioning the audio to come from the radio ... I.E. on canopy plug into that second alignment port? -forrest On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Mark Radabaugh via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: > I'm still looking for a rugged portable rechargeable power supply with a > built in speaker and wifi AP for the installers to use to power and aim > CPE. > > We cobble stuff up with rechargeable flashlights and electrical tape. > It's not pretty. I would buy multiple units if the price is <$200. > > Mark > > *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID* > > > "Forrest Christian (List Account) via Af" <af@afmug.com> wrote: > > It's been (quite) a while since I sent one of these messages out to the > list. > > With the release of all of our new gigabit injectors, it is time for me to > decide which products will be next out the door at PacketFlux. > > We've got several products at various stages of completion, but almost all > of them I expect to be very low volume projects - the type of products we > complete just because they help fill out our product offering instead of > expecting a lot of revenue from them. A couple of these have appeared on > the website recently - I.E. a 2 Relay, 3 Switch module, and the > voltmeter/shunt input modules. > > So, what I'd love to hear is some suggestions for products PacketFlux > could build which would help you in your WISP. I'm particularly looking > for products which if they existed would go at every one of your tower > sites, or even better at every customer location. I know these product > ideas exist out there, and I'd love to hear them. Feel free to throw > ideas out which are outside of the narrow niche that you think of > PacketFlux fitting into. > > One final note - there is always a query for an all-in-one tower device > which includes some mixture of ac power supply, dc-dc conversion, battery > charging/management, Ethernet switch, router, power injection, fiber > conversion, etc.. I've heard those loud and clear and am aware of that > desire. There's work being done in-house toward something like that, but > there are many hurdles left to make it a reality. If there's a simplified > version of this which would fit a specific, widespread, need I'd love to > hear about it, but the idea of a device you put into your rack and it > handles everything needed at a tower site is still quite a ways off for us. > > So, throw your best ideas out there... I'd love to take a couple and run > with them. > > -forrest > > > > >
