AEI/Beacon M5 Fireworks II [RE-wrenches]

[Geoff Greenfield]

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I'm glad my feeling of being "burned" by AEI was not so literal - yikes!

After dealing with many failed GC-1000 units and nice but frustrated tech
support at AEI, one bit of info seems appropriate -  One guy explained that
a lot of the difficulties they had were related to the "contract
manufacturing" that actually put the product together (they subbed it out).
They would have specs for the electronic components, even by manufacturer,
and all of these would have an acceptable "tolerance". He said that while
things would work well on the bench, but as the manufacturing process went
on, some of the boards used different components, and the combination of the
different "range" of different components all added up to funky-ness...

I don't know if this is typical of electronics manufacturing, (or if it was
the excuse of the day), but it would seem like a good basic question (for
Beacon and any manufacturer) how much of the manufacturing/assembly do you
actually do, and how do you address quality control on the rest of it?

Sincerely,

Geoff Greenfield
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