If built field tough and weather proof, cost only limits the number of
customers. There are plenty out there. I need inexpensive but some
other people out there do not.
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Rich
--- In Abhijit Menon-Sen <>
wrote:
>
> Hi Rich.
>
> At 2006-12-19 16:44:53 -0000, wrote:
> >
> > There are many recorders entering the market but there still are no
> > good inexpensive 24 bit affordable "frog loggers".
>
> What would you consider inexpensive?
>
> The gumstix components would cost about $250. I don't know how much to
> expect to pay for a good ADC and pre-amps (and whatever else I'd need
> in order to use a good microphone). Add on some more for power supply
> and miscellaneous components, and we're in the $300-400 range even by
> a fairly conservative estimate, with weatherproofing, microphone, and
> storage all being unaccounted for.
>
> What figure should I be aiming at instead?
>
> (I ask as though I know what I'm doing, but I don't really. I'm just
> trying to figure out if it's even worth trying to do something like
> this at the moment.)
>
> -- ams
>
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