The Garmin 496...a teenager's review

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"NW_Pilot" wrote:


The CPU speed in my cell phone is faster then that of the G1000 no
telling what they are using in the 496. So anyone have about $90K they
want to toss to the Korea/HongKong to reverse engineer the 496 and then
make it better and knock them off for only a few hundred dollars? Hell I
could crack/dump their their os in a few days and would give me an excuse
to get my SMT rework / device programming equipment out of the attic.


It's amazing that you're the only one to think of this. Congratulations!

I expect to see your $300 Garmin beater at OSH next year!

--
Dan

"Don't make me nervous when I'm carryin' a baseball bat."
- Big Joe Turner


I have sent out many 6 and 8 layer boards to be ripped apart and copied
layer by layer, trace by trace, solder pad by solder pad, all it take is
money and anything can be copied. If it has a published schematic you can
program/scan it in to Altium (protel), Eagle (cadsoft.de), or many other cad
programs. All to need to do is input in the Schematic arrange the board lay
out make some Gerber files upload to a board house. I believe
pcbexpress.com, ezpcb.com, PCBnet.com are still around they do up to 6
layers quick turn prototypes no questions asked. Once you get the prototype
the way you want on to injection molding and manfacture.

I have been out of the industory for few years now and many companys in the
U.S. have gone out of biz (Want a Good American Job Move To China)

A place to have a schematic drawn up of simple devices this guy is an old
timeer now and may be a little slow but only about $20.00 an hour. I sent
these guys lots of Cable TV equipment back in the day when I did not have
the time to do it myself.
http://www.bomarc.org/home.php

Some others:
http://www.delectrol.com/reverse_engineering.htm

http://www.mitsi.com/PCB/reverse_engineering.htm

http://www.armisteadtechnologies.com...ineering.shtml

http://www.isensortech.com/PCBreverse.htm

List of Some Production House's, The First one listed Circuitone is my #1
recommended I have done business with them in the past many times. They can
do modern composite laminating have much better than FR4 Fiberglass "don't
crack as easy" and they have reasonable pricing only about a dime more per
sq-in. They source the best parts possible and have very good test
facilities for quality control.

Circuitone Ltd
Room 702 Westley Square
48 Hoi Yuen Road
Kwun Tong
Kowloon
Hong Kong SAR
Tel: (852 ) 23500360
Fax: (852 ) 22422544
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Tahoe Industries Ltd
2F No. 388-1
Jen Ai Road Section 4
Ta An District
Taipei
Taiwan 106
Tel: (886 2) 27044235 (886 2) 27044236
Fax: (886 2) 27049044
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UNI Precision Industrial Ltd
Unit 604, Harbour Center Tower II
8 Hok Cheung Street
Hunghom, Kowloon
Hong Kong SAR
Tel: (852 ) 23565800 (852 ) 23565817
Fax: (852 ) 23649336
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Ehua Co. Ltd
9F, No. 776
Chung Cheng Road
Chung Ho City
Taipei
Taiwan 235
Tel: (886 2) 82282042
Fax: (886 2) 82282043
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Topscom Precision Industry Co Limited
Shenzhen Office: 2nd Building East
Sege Science & Technology Park
Futian District
Shenzhen
Guangdong
China 518030
Tel: (86 755) 8376 8879 Ext : 8808 (86 755) 8376 8867 Ext : 8814
Fax: (86 755) 8376 8890

"NW_Pilot" wrote:

I have sent out many 6 and 8 layer boards to be ripped apart and copied
layer by layer, trace by trace, solder pad by solder pad, all it take is
money and anything can be copied.

So why hasn't anyone come out wth a half-price 496 knock-off?

Should be easy, according to you, and I guarantee you there's a big market.

--
Dan

"The future has actually been here for a while, it's just not readily
available to everyone."
- some guy at MIT

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"NW_Pilot" wrote:

I have sent out many 6 and 8 layer boards to be ripped apart and copied
layer by layer, trace by trace, solder pad by solder pad, all it take is
money and anything can be copied.

So why hasn't anyone come out wth a half-price 496 knock-off?

Should be easy, according to you, and I guarantee you there's a big
market.

--
Dan

"The future has actually been here for a while, it's just not readily
available to everyone."
- some guy at MIT



Yea, there is a big market I estimate about $90K could produce a really
really good knock off. Then about 1-2 million to get in to mass production.
If I had the capital I would be visiting Hong Kong and gettin it started.
South Korea has some benefits also but workmanship is not as good.

-Only way we can travel to another planet that can support life is to
control time, but if we can control time we don't need to go anyplace!