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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/228c367b-c45c-44c5-bcf0-41f5e2cc7a92%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
