Well, it looks like it might actually be finally happening. We are about 98% sure we have a rackmount enclosure manufacturer which we can work with. Domestic. Product looks decent. Price is right.
Which means it's time to nail down a few details here, such as number of ports, so I can get some enclosures cut and boards made and hopefully get this elephant out of the room.... So I need some input: The rough figures I'm working with here is $800 for a 18 port rackmount power injector. Voltage and pinning jumper selectable per port. Per-port control of power and sync. Probably some redundant power and other things built in, but I'm still nailing those details down (a lot of it comes down to space on the front panel of the enclosure). PLEASE NOTE: The prices here are soft - until I get the design completed I won't know what I can sell this for - as many of you know I try to price things at a fair price as opposed to what the market will bear. The main questions I have for the list are: Is 18 the correct number of ports? 18 is looking like about the most I can fit based on front panel dimensions. This corresponds to 3 blocks of 6 ports (if you lose a port and need to replace it, you'd replace 6 at a time). Other options are 16 (4 blocks of 4), and pretty much any smaller quantities of ports which are divisible by 4 or 6. I guess what I'm really asking here is whether the 18 port version for $800 is the only version of this I should make or carry, or does it make sense to sell (as an example) an 8 port version for $400 instead of or in addition to this? -- *Forrest Christian* *CEO**, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.* Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 forre...@imach.com | http://www.packetflux.com <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> <http://twitter.com/@packetflux>
