[TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers

[Kimberly Elmore]

How is it that the Chinese make these so cheaply? Is all the cost in labor, or do the Chinese make every component themselves using cheap labor such that we need only pay for materials? If the make everything themselves, how do they manage equivalent transformers and band switches at a third of the price? I don;t understand the cost differential...

Kim N5OP




On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 12:35 PM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP <Rick at DJ0IP.de> wrote:
 


Along with the transceiver clones, there are amplifier clones.
A clone of the OM-Power amplifiers has been selling down under for about a
year.

Apparently they have opted to test the Australian market first.  Closer to
home?
They entered the market for about $2500 but are now selling for close to
$2K.

Array Solutions sells OM-Power amplifiers in the states.
See:  http://www.arraysolutions.com/Products/OM_Power/OM_Power.htm 

And here's a link to the Chinese amplifiers:
http://www.amp.co.nf/ 

TWO QUESTIONS for you guys:

1).  Would you rather pay $7K for an original OM-Power, made in the Slovak
Republic or $2K for what looks to be the same amplifier, but made in China?

2).  Regardless of how you answered #1, what do you think most people will
do?

OK, so some of you answered "neither" and will stick with "made in America".
How much longer?

IMO the cheap clones will cause the good OEMs to switch their business to
something else, or simply close their doors.
Not today and not tomorrow but within 5 years!

73
Rick, DJ0IP




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