oregonpapa,
I do like seeing people succeed in whatever positive they do.
Starting production in a garage in the back of an apartment/house is quite common and makes sense. I was surprised that someone would have a factory, no matter how small or unsophisticated, and then move in. It just seemed odd.
Still, the story about cold sandwich, as poetically heartbreaking as it may seem, does not earn any points. The only reason to eat cold sandwich in Santa Ana, California is because one wants to eat cold sandwich. Of course, if it had been the only sandwich that week, it would have shown dedication and sacrifice to achieve some goal by saving.
I have not been to Synergistic Research current factory. It would be a wasted visit. I would not know the difference from any other production place. I suspect that machines to make fuses would look exactly like machines to bottle Coca-Cola to me. That is my fault, not Synergistic Research’s.
Back to actual Blue fuse numbers. If $80 per fuse is a ballpark figure of the dealer’s cost, it would be around 1300 fuses that first weekend. Not all of them could be expected to be sold to final customers that weekend so some stayed in stock. As fuses are quite specific items and market/customers are very specialized and dedicated, it could be expected that a majority of potentially interested buyers would buy them soon after launch. That peak would then be followed by much slower, but steady, demand over time. If initial demand was 1300, could it be that over the following two years it added about 1200, or was it much more. I am really impressed that this thread is two years old with 2850+ posts, confirming very strong emotions that fuses bring (pro et contra). I am curious if the number of posts surpassed the number of fuses. I will never know, but I do wonder if each produced fuse has its own post on this thread.
I do like seeing people succeed in whatever positive they do.
Starting production in a garage in the back of an apartment/house is quite common and makes sense. I was surprised that someone would have a factory, no matter how small or unsophisticated, and then move in. It just seemed odd.
Still, the story about cold sandwich, as poetically heartbreaking as it may seem, does not earn any points. The only reason to eat cold sandwich in Santa Ana, California is because one wants to eat cold sandwich. Of course, if it had been the only sandwich that week, it would have shown dedication and sacrifice to achieve some goal by saving.
I have not been to Synergistic Research current factory. It would be a wasted visit. I would not know the difference from any other production place. I suspect that machines to make fuses would look exactly like machines to bottle Coca-Cola to me. That is my fault, not Synergistic Research’s.
Back to actual Blue fuse numbers. If $80 per fuse is a ballpark figure of the dealer’s cost, it would be around 1300 fuses that first weekend. Not all of them could be expected to be sold to final customers that weekend so some stayed in stock. As fuses are quite specific items and market/customers are very specialized and dedicated, it could be expected that a majority of potentially interested buyers would buy them soon after launch. That peak would then be followed by much slower, but steady, demand over time. If initial demand was 1300, could it be that over the following two years it added about 1200, or was it much more. I am really impressed that this thread is two years old with 2850+ posts, confirming very strong emotions that fuses bring (pro et contra). I am curious if the number of posts surpassed the number of fuses. I will never know, but I do wonder if each produced fuse has its own post on this thread.