The FLIR representative at the job fair was probably just a recruiter. Chances are that she doesn't know much about the hack and had only heard about it in passing.
Imo, the potential problem is if majority of FLIR big distributors are fully aware of this hack while still have mountain high of stackpiled of unsold non E4 models, they will be shouting at FLIR to fix it asap "every day" if necessary.
Imagine you're the FLIR distributor relationship officer/manager that is facing those angry mobs everyday.
Imo, the potential problem is if majority of FLIR big distributors are fully aware of this hack while still have mountain high of stackpiled of unsold non E4 models, they will be shouting at FLIR to fix it asap "every day" if necessary.
Imagine you're the FLIR distributor relationship officer/manager that is facing those angry mobs everyday.
Also, do you simply screw the lens back all the way in to it's tight and that's the "factory" position, or does it seem to have a factory tweaked position one should mark off before adjusting?
Feel free to upload my 3D models of the lens adjuster and the ZnSe lens adapter to wherever you think it'll do most good.
Thanks, done:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:187162
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:187166
I had to chose a license so chose creative commons public domain?
If you consider the manufacturing cost (of hardware and software development cost etc), have they under-priced E4 and over priced E8 ?
They are pretty much seems manufactured in the similar production line, and I think they have priced the E4 correctly.
The consensus at least amongst this thread seems to be that the E4 hack has resulted in new sales that otherwise wouldn't have happenned at all
One thing is for sure, its done their business no damage, with the product thrown under the spotlight by a lot of very clever guys; not once have I seen a criticism of the company or its product. I for one would not hesitate to recommend the procurement of products from them in the future.
One thing is for sure, its done their business no damage, with the product thrown under the spotlight by a lot of very clever guys; not once have I seen a criticism of the company or its product.
If you think Flir might be fine that E4 sales are going up, you are wrong.
Of course they will have an effect on the sales of E5/6/8.
I did quick guess on costs - see attached screen shot.
I did two calculations, the second table boosts the E4 sales from 1000 to 5000 units, while the E5/6/8 sales are dropping by 75% (which they would, as the word of hackability would spread quickly).
Result: Flir is selling now >5000 cameras instead of 2000 cameras, but is still making less money....
Do you think they will tolerate this? I don't.
It is a similar calculation as any reseller should do.
Example: Assume you are selling some electronics with a 15% margin. You want to give a christmas discount of 5% on everything because this will to boost you sales by 30%. Sounds like a good idea? Wrong: you need to sell at least >50% more than before. Any sales boost below 50% will cost you real money at the end.
Feel free to upload my 3D models of the lens adjuster and the ZnSe lens adapter to wherever you think it'll do most good.
Thanks, done:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:187162
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:187166
I had to chose a license so chose creative commons public domain?At least the lens tool for turning the lens does need some improvement. I am not a CAD specialist so I better not work on that, but you can easily see that the STL file and the printed tool are not perfect. I recognized that by uploading the file to a 3D printing company - it was rejected with the error message that the survace is not OK and contains errors and thus cannot be printed.
Maybe some more work on the CAD file is needed here?
I thought I mention this before too much people invest money into ordering a 3D printed model which is not 100% finished yet.
See attached picture.
Btw: I am also wondering why the top is not as shiny and smooth as the cone below. Is there any technical reason or is this due to the not-yet-perfect STL file?
Just had mine delivered to a friend in the US who's going to forward it on.
Had them check it out and apparently it's running firmware version 1.17.7, which was a bit of a surprise.
I'm guessing that there's no harm in upgrading it to 1.18.7?