[time-nuts] Re: OCXO Oven design (was: E1938A phase noise improvement)

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

Selling well only works if you are making money on each one :)

The 8607 is / was a “select the best” design. If one in a hundred
meets that spec and you can’t sell the rest … hmmmm ….. 
Move the 8607 price up to $200,000 and they probably don’t 
sell very well. 

Bob



> On Dec 26, 2021, at 5:38 PM, Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 15:54:06 -0500
> Bob kb8tq <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:
> 
>> The market is what dictates how fancy an OCXO gets made. Bottom 
>> line is that there really isn’t that big a market (and willingness to pay
>> for super duper TC). If indeed you could do all the fancy stuff and 
>> still keep the sell price below $10 then who knows ….
> 
> I wonder about that. I was told by an ex-manager of
> Oscilloquartz, that their biggest problem with the 8607
> was that the Option 08 sold too well. So much, that
> they had a huge over-supply of the other, lesser
> versions of the 8607, to the point that even raising
> the price of the Option 08 beyond what a car cost
> didn't recover its cost.
> 
> Sure, such a high stability oscillator doesn't have a
> mass market. And it's definitely not a comodity item.
> But there seems to be decent market even if its very
> expensive.
> 
> 			Attila Kinali
> 
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