Re: hello NASA, using the old junk box?
- From: martin griffith <martingriffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:21:55 +0200
On 14 Jul 2005 03:04:30 -0700, in sci.electronics.design
larwe@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> >"A couple of thousand......." Um, yeah. Like you have a clue about it.
>> Yep I do, I am electronic designer.
>
>Obviously not a professional one. Or maybe you just work out of the
>side of a van selling breadboarded products.
>
>Redesigning any of the consumer products I work with to, say, change
>one transistor type, is a minimum cost of six to nine months and
>$100,000 of direct costs in engineering, QA testing, FCC
>recertification, perhaps also UL relisting (that is an instant ~$35,000
>cost for our type of product), and more.
>
>That's merely to meet ISO900x, FCC and AHJ requirements. NASA's
>application also has to meet aviation safety standards. Even if the
>change is as trivial as just switching to a different transistor
>vendor, I'd be willing to bet the costs START at $250,000 and a year's
>engineering and qual time - and that's probably a conservative
>estimate.
That is just so depressing
martin
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