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Tinine
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Posted: 06:59pm 27 Feb 2022

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Mixtel90 said Ah... the thick plottens.... ;) No wonder your customer is so confused. lol

I can see your problem with Beckhoff now.
Wow - I didn't know the chip shortage was hitting them so badly. I know it was bad, of course, but not to that extent.

Yeah, their main EtherCAT chip...I think it's Digikey that will have a single unit on July 4th (talk about fireworks

) And then they'll have 2000+ some time in March 2023. They'll be snapped up.

Craig

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Posted: 07:12pm 27 Feb 2022

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I did a quick search and this is the first thing I found on Reddit. IPC is their industrial PC. Use your own PC and the license cost increases by thousands (from what I read)

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Posted: 07:19pm 27 Feb 2022

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Any budding entrepreneurs...now is a golden opportunity to offer your MMBasic solution. DIP MX170s are still aplenty and of course the Picomite and now MMB4W.

Zillions of accounts to be had

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Posted: 09:24pm 27 Feb 2022

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Tinine said Mick,
Heck, you're missing the 99p pints of Ruddles, "winter special". I didn't think it'd be drinkable but if you blindfolded me and told me I was drinking a "craft ale", I'd believe it

Keep meaning to offer to buy you lunch; I would like to donate my CMM2 to a good home. Can't be bothered to sell/mail it.

Craig

I hardly drink nowadays so I'm not really missing out on much. lol
That would indeed be noble of you. :)

Tinine said Any budding entrepreneurs...now is a golden opportunity to offer your MMBasic solution. DIP MX170s are still aplenty and of course the Picomite and now MMB4W.

Zillions of accounts to be had

I don't know just how plentiful the PicoMite is now. I read that one of the larger suppliers couldn't buy enough pre-built and had to buy the chips and get some Pico copies made themselves. Of course, that might just have been the quantity that they were asking for and not being able to get the discount that they'd have liked.

Something based around MMBasic would be nice, but I doubt if it would be fast enough. However, for an interlock system rather than a real-time control system that might not be such a disadvantage.

Mick

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Posted: 10:29pm 27 Feb 2022

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