|
It seems that the current Ready Ref's size is mostly driven by the size of the battery, 9V. With new battery technology I would think that a smaller, more optioned unit could be built quite easily. It could have multiple push-button switches instead of one rocker switch to time different intervals. All of the components minus the battery would probably run about $10 or $15. However the housing would have a cost of about $20,000 up front to build the mold. That is why these cost $69 and not $39.
Being the mechanical engineer who does design similar types of housings I have the software and resources to do this. And the electrical engineers I work with could easily build this circuit and program it. But even then I don't think I want to try it.
|