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What's NRE?

Moe

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "djbrow54" <davebr@e...> wrote:
>
> I'm thinking you could do these in lexan. To avoid any NRE, you could
> probably go with 0.030" clear and still laser cut it. The top and
> bottom portions could be the dimensions of the screw head so that the
> only visible portion would be between the screws and the vertical.
>
> You could use clear lexan so the black could show through. It would
> probably need to be 0.25" wide to provide enough rigidity but could
> have a much thinner stripe silkscreened on it, perhaps 0.125". This
> would then leave only a very narrow clear portion on either side.
>
> There would be very little NRE but the piece price would be higher.
> At a certain volume it would make sense to stencil cut the lexan.
>
> If there is enough interest I may be talked into checking further.
>
> Dave
>
>
> --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Robert van der Kamp <robnet@w...> wrote:
> >
> > On Sunday 04 December 2005 18:07, djbrow54 wrote:
> > > A flat piece of metal. The "I" referred to the shape, not
> > > the cross section. It is held in by the two side screws
> > > of the module plus the two side screws of the adjacent
> > > module. To replace a module you'd need to take out 8
> > > screws but the adjacent modules would stay in place since
> > > they still had 2 screws each on their other respective
> > > sides.
> > >
> > > Nothing behind the panel, nothing in-between to change
> > > the spacing, simply a decorative piece of trim sandwiched
> > > between the screws and the modules on the surface. I put
> > > a drawing in the files section. 'vertical.jpg'
> >
> > That's a very nice idea!
> >
> > Not sure about the cosmetics though. The construction near
> > the screws could be ugly, especially since I'm looking for
> > a very subtle separator. I think a single white or metal
> > colored line, the width of the graphic lines on e.g. the
> > MOTM-300 would be more than adequate. Anything thicker will
> > probably not look very sexy, but I'd love to be wrong here.
> >
> > - Robert
> >
>