Wiardgroup

> but really like Livewire has done have someone else stuff those boards and
> turn 'em out quickly the you tweak and tune to spec, less solder fumes for
> you...= longer life, more modules, and more original DESIGNS!!

Based on quotations, if I used external vendors for everything, after the vendors were all 
paid, what's left would be about $30 per module or $180 per instrument. Which would be my 
cut for final assembly, test, calibration, packing, and driving them to the shipper.

Hard to do R&D on a budget like that.

Remember, when you use external vendors, you multiply your overhead by the amount of 
vendors, since you are now paying overhead to each vendor, plus your own overhead.

Oops, hard learned business lesson leaked out...

Gotta switch to decafe ;^)