Hi all, As mentioned a few times over this year I've been kicking around the idea of doing a group buy for the Furuno GT-8736 GPS receiver boards:
http://www.furuno.com/en/products/gnss-module/GT-8736 I have a quote from a vendor here in the States from last year that puts them at roughly $27 a pop at QTY 100 units. But... the guy retired and the latest quote I got back (yesterday) was for the original QTY 1 price of $35. I sent them the lower quote and am awaiting a response. I'll also see about buying a couple tubes of the PCB connector. I believe Mouser part number 855-M50-3120545 is correct ($1.45). Looking at the measurements, a 10mm stand off should allow the board to mate properly, and I can supply these as well. These are bare boards and need an MMCX pigtail cable to go off to an antenna as well as a cable for data IO. Antenna power comes in through one of the pins, independently of the main power to the receiver so you can run a 5V antenna from this 3.3 (2.85 to 3.6) volt board if you wanted to. One of the units I had at home was just sent out today to a list member for some testing. Hang tight. I'll start taking orders once everything looks good and I get the price down to where it was. I want to stress that I'm doing this at cost so I will not gouge anybody. And sorry to clutter up the list with non-techie stuff. I will ask that any inquiries come directly to me unless they're of a technical nature. -Bob N3XKB _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
