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Originally Posted by Craig
In the real world, $20 would cover about one man-month of engineering time. That might be enough time to prepare a conceptual study and come up with a preliminary estimate for the detailed design cost. Just the engineering (design only, not software) would cost several $100K, before any hardware is built. A million dollars is a pretty small project, if you are talking about anything that will go into production. You might be able to cobble something together yourself for $20K, if you don't count your time; and it might even run.
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Let's do a price quote for the electronic hardware system:
PCB: 100$ to manufacture
Processor: LPC2294 = 50$ (or less). LPC2103 = 5 $ (but has limited resources)
Various components (quartz, condensers and others) = $100 (insane, but let's be generous).
Protection systems specific to engine environment (filters, high voltage protection and others) = $50
Power electronics (to actuate the injectors) = $ 50
Casing (resistant to vibration, and outside environment conditions, heat) = $200
So as a sum, the whole electronics involved should cost about
: 500 $
And the software development costs nothing but time if you do it yourself.
10-08-2007, 05:35 PM
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