Raymarine Rudder Sensor.

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Available for only £190.00 + VAT.
OG being a bit of nosy parker cut one open.

Plastic case £1.50 + VAT
Rotary Pot £14.13 +VAT made in Mexico in stock from Farnell.
Raymarine sticker £185.00 + VAT.
Err thats it really...:)
 
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How much do you think your boat, car or iPhone really cost to make in terms of raw products?

Add on R&D, marketing, staff, taxes, etc etc...

By comparison you could could take an E80 plotter apart and marvel at the engineering by modern standards.
 
DiscoVolante said:
How much do you think your boat, car or iPhone really cost to make in terms of raw products?

Add on R&D, marketing, staff, taxes, etc etc...

By comparison you could could take an E80 plotter apart and marvel at the engineering by modern standards.
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H,mm we are talking about a very basic item indeed that probably cost around £15.00 to assemble including the shipping from China and it retails at £180 pounds .....
Buy 500 resistors and you get them for £8.00 quid each.
Nothing complicated just a simple variable resistor and 3 dobs of solder.This particular type of sender is stoneage technology has been in use for probably over 40 years , not much R and D there ?
Suspect there are few out there who would be ordering their new Fleming today if they could achieve a markup a tiny fraction of that. :)
Raymarine RRP is actually £265.00.
 
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plastics and arm are identical to my old CETREK one which I now "upgraded" to NMEA2000 by feeding the three cables to an arduino and writing probably 40lines of code.
Damn, should sell it for 300quid then!

:D

V.
 
oldgit said:
H,mm we are talking about a very basic item indeed that probably cost around £15.00 to assemble including the shipping from China and it retails at £180 pounds .....
Buy 500 resistors and you get them for £8.00 quid each.
Nothing complicated just a simple variable resistor and 3 dobs of solder.This particular type of sender is stoneage technology has been in use for probably over 40 years , not much R and D there ?
Suspect there are few out there who would be ordering their new Fleming today if they could achieve a markup a tiny fraction of that. :)
Raymarine RRP is actually £265.00.
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You clearly don't understand the cost of bringing a product like that to global market and supporting it through a service network.
 
DiscoVolante said:
You clearly don't understand the cost of bringing a product like that to global market and supporting it through a service network.
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Having dealt personally with that sort of calculations, I perfectly see what you mean. Then again, with most (allegedly) equipment-specific bits of marine components, I believe that pricing has much more to see with the very low elasticity of the demand.
I mean, the average boater who needs a Raymarine rudder sensor, buys it, period.
Of course he moans about it being too expensive, but he buys it because he needs it.
It's obvious that Raymarine could halve the price and still have a nice margin, but how many more of those bits would they sell by doing so? Zero is my educated guess.
The fact that very few boaters like Vas can build just about anything, and could consider buying the real thing if its price would be sensible (instead of fiddling with Arduino boards... :D), is also true, as this forum proves. But that's rather the exception confirming the rule.
 
I have one of those sat in a box - cheap and cheerful but chose not to fit it and used a Raymarine one that I got new for £125.
 
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Cheers , think it purely and simply works on a resistance difference seen by a control unit...all a bit above my pay grade.
Basically a good quality old fashioned radio volume control sans the on/off bit.!
Pretty certain that somebody somewhere will have produced a knock off unit at fraction of the price..
 
oldgit said:
Available for only £190.00 + VAT.
OG being a bit of nosy parker cut one open.

Plastic case £1.50 + VAT
Rotary Pot £14.13 +VAT made in Mexico in stock from Farnell.
Raymarine sticker £185.00 + VAT.
Err thats it really...:)
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Yep thats exactly what i did with mine too!
 
Whats the first question anybody who has wasted years getting an education in engineering or advanced astro physics asks on the first day of paid employment

Want fries with that Sir ? ......:)
 
oldgit said:
some folks on here might suggest you are an old cheap skate and should have coughed up for a brand new one from Raymarine. :)
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That's not the point you were making - of course an easy fix like this makes sense if you have the time - but to take Raymarine to task for making and marketing the product in the first place at a price they choose is just daft. Retailers percentage is typically 30% but I don't see you having a go at them?

Also for reference they are readily available as NOS for around £100 on eBay. I bought a new one for £75 last year and a new ST290 Rudder Angle Sensor for a similar amount.
 
Parabordi said:
whats the point of having a degree in electronics and then paying stoopid money for a new one?
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Because you should be out earning mega bucks so that buying this part at Raymarine prices will feel like a drop in the ocean, if not then you clearly have got it wrong.
 
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