A comparison of the kit K2 vs the modular K3 has previously been made:
http://www.ac6rm.net/mailarchive/html/elecraft-list/2007-05/msg00837.html
If you add on the cost of a builder, shipping from the builder back to
you, then you have to REALLY want a K2 to cost-justify getting one
now.
Did
Welcome to the economics of SMT: tape and reel vs poly bags for kits,
relentless and unerring automated assembly and volume economics benefits of
the basic parts.
When added to the technical benefits of improved parasitics and thermals it
puts thruhole on the endangered species list.
73
jim
DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote:
Did Elecraft unintentionally put the K2 semi-official builders out to
pasture?
Doug,
That may likely be true that a fair price to build the K2 will cast a
shadow on the K3 kit price.
Comparisons are being made between an assembled K2 and the K3 kit price.
When
On 7/1/07, Don Wilhelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Comparisons are being made between an assembled K2 and the K3 kit price.
When you use the assembled K3 prices, there is still room for the
lower priced K2. the kit to assembled differential on the K3 adds $200
or more depending on the power
I doubt if it is SMT devices and auto-board
stuffers that made the economy of K3 what it is.
Electronic integration marches on. Remember the
Collins 75A4, or Heath Marauder? Now it is possible
to put just about everything, save the large L's,
into siicon. I suspect one bright engineer on
the
Most of the posts, so far, have dealt with the K2/K3 cost differential on a
basis of fun to build and production manufacturing economics. In the SMT vs
PTH/discreet component examples cited there was limited mention of the vastly
expanded capabilities and somewhat improved performance - not
In a message dated 7/1/07 5:55:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I doubt if it is SMT devices and auto-board
stuffers that made the economy of K3 what it is.
I think it is.
Electronic integration marches on.
Remember the
Collins 75A4, or Heath Marauder?
remember, not too many years ago (88),
having a meeting in a room at Bell Lab's Allentown
facility (or was it NJ) - and behind me on
the wall of that lab - which had a brass plaque
which read ... in this lab in 1953 (or whatever
the correct year was), the first transistor
IC was invented.
... which had a brass plaque
which read ... in this lab in 1953 (or whatever
the correct year was), the first transistor
IC was invented. Wow - time marches on!
1959, IIRC.
Actually, the transistor was born in the Labs in late 1947. It
became available at an affordable price to kids like
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