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  1. #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sterob View Post
    I found the OEM Led Driver for $18 and bought 2.
    Batten is working again, so all good.

    It just goes to show the mark up on these things. If the led driver is $18 retail, how much do they cost to make? $8?
    Would be surprised if the whole thing costs $30 to make.

    Steve
    Really pleased to hear you were able to get the driver -- curious about from where?
    cheers
    David

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sterob View Post
    I found the OEM Led Driver for $18 and bought 2.
    Batten is working again, so all good.

    It just goes to show the mark up on these things. If the led driver is $18 retail, how much do they cost to make? $8?
    Would be surprised if the whole thing costs $30 to make.

    Steve

    At a rough guess I would say cost to make would be about 50 cents. This is low for some mark up rates. I have read reports of when television was a new industry, Mullard, an English electronics giant,(later absorbed by the Dutch Philips organisation If I remember correctly) built a new factory to make picture tubes, and at the time in the 1950s a picture tube cost about £50, but the marginal cost of production was 2/6. In other words if at the end of the day they decided to make one more picture tube, the additional cost was two shillings and six pence back in the early 1950s. No doubt there would have been a massive investment not just to build the factory, but also the R&D that went into designing all the machinery required and then building it, so that mark up went to pay for all that, and it possibly still took decades to fully amortise the costs.
    My first job after leaving school was with The British Motor Corporation at Zetland in Sydney. At the time they used to buy a small brake pipe with fittings to attach a brake hose from an outside supplier, and these pipes were supplied in a stillage in numbers of 1000 per stillage full. One day our boss informed us that these brake pipes cost one cent each to make (in 1968) and the manufacturer delivered them to BMC for a cost of two cents each, 2000 at a time in two stillages. One of the apprentices reportedly went down to a York Motors Spare parts warehouse, about 150 yards down the road from the BMC gates and asked the price of one of those brake pipes. It came to the counter in a blue and white striped cardboard box, complete with BMC livery, and was priced at $10.00.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HavinaGo View Post
    Really pleased to hear you were able to get the driver -- curious about from where?
    I got them from these Guys:
    https://rmscomponents.com.au

    They seem to be the Aussie agents for this brand of Led driver, although its not loaded on their website as yet. Made it harde to track down....

    steve

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