RE: Bulletproof your WG6100!

G'day Anders (and everyone else),

Given your excellent price, I have no trouble committing to a couple
bare PCBs. If you'd give some indication of when the price breaks kick
in on individual orders, I think you'd get me and others to up our
orders.

                Steven S Ozdemir
                sso@dsc.com

ps - If you were referring to the total orders from everyone regarding
the price break, then my above comment is wrong. Ignore my comment in
this case. And make sure to give a "last call" for orders once you have
an idea of the minimum size of the total order (and thus the maximum
price of bare PCBs). You may find a last minute surge in orders....did
Clay see this with his "last call" email for his PCB?

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>From: Anders Knudsen[SMTP:Anders_Knudsen@btc.adaptec.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 10:52 AM
>To: vectorlist@spies.com
>Cc: Anders Knudsen
>Subject: Bulletproof your WG6100!
>
>Well I finally got all my shit together and finished up the low voltage
>retrofit design for the WG6100 color monitors.
>Just a reminder this retrofit replaces the low voltage power supply on the
>deflection PCB.
>I have a quote from a local PCB fab that has very reasonable prices (they
>actually were a better price than Alberta Printed Circuits (the one Clay
>uses I think).
>Anyway, I will place an order if there are people that want this retrofit.
>FYI: I am not in this to make any money, just to sell enough to break even
>:-) and have a few LVPCBs for my own games.
>Here is the deal:
>The PCB is very "cute": 1" x 2" in size and fits perfectly in the place of
>the old LV parts.
>It bulletproofs the LV part of the deflection PCB. So if you get HV
>runaway, or some deflection short problem, the LV PCB will not be damaged!
>i.e., never replace your LV parts again!
>Jeff H is basically my "testimonial" to its functionality. He has had a
>couple of them running in Star Wars machines that are continually on in a
>local movie theatre. Just ask him jeffh@diac.com
>I will sell bare PCBs to you folks since most are knowledgeable and have
>used a soldering iron before. The PCB has a silkscreen so parts placement
>should not be a problem. I'll also include some documentation. If people
>want, I can include a "bag-o-parts", or ship LV PCBs fully assembled.
>I will let the bare PCBs go for $10 to $6 depending on quantity ordered.
>A bag-o-parts should run around $7 to $8 for all the parts.
>Fully assembled will add a small fee (I am guessing most people will want
>to do it yourself, however I won't be responsible for lack of soldering
>skills ;-O)
>So the retrofit should be cheap and it is a one-time replacement for what
>most of the WG6100 Zanen kit.
>Let me know asap since I need to get a quantity order in to the fab. The
>more I order, the cheaper the per cost will be.
>-Anders.
>
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>| Anders Knudsen
>| ASIC Design Engineer
>| Adaptec, Inc., Boulder Technology Center
>| anders_knudsen@btc.adaptec.com
>| http://www.adaptec.com
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Received on Wed Jan 14 11:07:58 1998