> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Julian [mailto: julian@... ]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 4. Februar 2005 02:00
> An: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: Re: 1 doepfer monster suitcase and a174
> schematics.
>
> > > Ideas on cost
>
> > not yet. So far we have only the price for the empty double suitcase.
>
> I personally (and i know there are others like me) have custom
> racks with power supplies already.
>
> The monster case looks as if itll be easier than my skb cases, so
> i may well be tempted into buying one. But i (and others) already
> have linear power supplies by powerone and the like -
>
> As the power would be a substantial addition to the cost of the
> case, will there be any chance that it would be offered without
> power too
>
> Thankyou, Julian

The empty "monster suitcase" will be about Euro 700.00 without bus boards
and power supplies. It is a lot of hardware and individually hand made by
our case manufacturer (no serial production). Three companies (except us)
are involved: the company for the 19" rails, threaded inserts and special
screws (ProMa), a second company that manufactures the metal side plates
with exactly positioned mounting holes required to fix the rails at the
right vertical positions (mounting the rails directly to the wooden side
plates of the case is not exactly enough, we tried this first for the
regular A-100 suitcase with bad results) and the (wodden) case manufacturer.

The suitcase includes these hardware parts:
16 x 19" rails that have to shortened to 168 HP manually (only 1 m rails
available from ProMa)
32 x threaded inserts with 84 HP each (no 168 HP available)
32 x special screws for rail mounting
4 x metal side plates for rail fixing

and of coure the actual flight case made from black wood, aluminium case
angles, duty ball corners, handles, rubber feet and so on. For the bus
boards and power supplies mounting more than 150 holes have to be drilled
into the rear of the case at the correct positions. For the mains inlets
rectangle holes have to be sawed into the rear.

For the complete case 16 bus boards and power supplies (~ 6 PSUII
recommended) have to be added, as well as the working time to assemble and
wire the bus boards and power supplies. The 32 bus boards are 35.00 each,
the PSUII 90.00 each. So the complete suitcase will be about 1750.00 as we
can give some discount for 16 bus boards and 6 PSUII. A lot of money, but
compared to the price of 8 standard A-100 suitcases (8 x 350.00 = 2800.00)
it is about 40% off. But exact price I cannot say before we have built the
first complete case.

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer