From bgvocals@yahoo.com Mon Jul 11 14:32:59 2011
Subject:Re: OK so where's the SK1 reviews?

Taking a wild guess, I would say the circuitry including the board is probably
less than $50. The external components are probably expensive relative to the
other components, another guess at probably a little under $50 at most. So
total components probably cost less than $100. They did a nice job of avoiding
costly ($10K) agency approvals by using the external power adapter (disliked by
most of us). R&D is a different story. Unless someone had a total stroke of
genius and wrote totally debugged code off the bat, R&D is a major contributor
to the cost per unit.

Although the cost of the box, switches, and connectors would be eliminated if
the Vent was incorporated into a clone's case, there would still be the cost of
the pots for real-time adjustments, critical to some of us that use the Vent.

Lou

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From: "Peter J. Previte, Jr."
To: "CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com"
Sent: Mon, July 11, 2011 1:31:02 PM
Subject: Re: [CWSG] OK so where's the SK1 reviews?

I wonder how much of the $500 goes towards the stompbox chassis, peripheral
connectors, power supply, etc of which that cost would be eliminated if a clone
manufacturer were to just incorporate the Vent's circuitry into the instrument's
board??
Peter

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