senor honda

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Cynthia Avishegnath

Most people may not understand the meaning of "military grade", not precluding the author of this video. A controller may cost $5 off-the-shelf. However, the same military-hardened controller would be $250 - $400. The military contractor's acceptance engineer(s) would be on-site for 3 days. For off-the-shelf acceptance, we usually take 3 units per dozen. For more stringent customers, perhaps 100 per 1000. But for the military/nasa, it is 100%. And then they are only buying perhaps 150 units. That batch would go thro special set-up and environment across couple days. At each stage we verify the paperwork. The -25 C test is quite hazardous for the technicians. I can't remember if we did the -55 C test for aerospace contractors. The military contractor's engineer and myself would sign off on the paperwork and the batch sealed. There are special set-ups that done by $60K/year techs and $90K/year engineers. Maybe people think this is a joke. This is the myth of the $10K toilet seat. The public does not know that the normally $25 toilet seat is not a usual toilet seat. I would make only 5 of them. I would have to spend perhaps $10K to set the environment up for testing and assurance that the seat holds up to all possibilities. At $10K, the seat would actually be a gift to the govt. To justify selling $250 per toilet seat, I would have to fudge the numbers and costs, falsify the paperwork, to make the taxpayers (and Congress) happy. One needs to accept the concept that a complete product is a Total-Quality product. The difference between a Toyota and a brand of lesser quality, is that the Toyota is tested for 3 years before selling it. The other brand is sold for three years before they realise and correct the flaws of the car in the 4th year. A military grade is not the material alone, but the assurance and analysis steps that each batch of material had gone thro.