On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:59:16 +1200, you wrote:

>I was trying to get a feel for the probable higher volume cost of =
various
>components based on known lower price breaks.
>While there can be many factors involved which make this an impossible =
task,
>a friend pointed out an approximate relationship which seems to work =
quite
>well enough top be useful as a ROUGH rule of thumb.

I don't think it's anything like that simple unfortunately - there are a =
huge number of variations
between manufacturer and types of components - I don't think you can =
produce a meaningful 'avarage'

Low-end prices <1000 are very often distorted - some makers have obvious =
policies of not wanting to
deal with small numbers (100x =3D 2x the 10x price for example), and =
different types of parts will
have different economies of scale  - e.g. SM parts tend to come on reels,=
 so anything below a reel
multiple will be priced very differently depending on the distributors' =
attitude to splitting reels.

=46or a part that is manufactured by the zillion, above a certain volume =
it doesn't actually cost much
less to make/distribute 1million or 10 million - the definitionof =
'zillion' will of course again
depend on the type of part.=20

You could maybe do an avarage within certain component type catagories =
that might be vaguely
meaningful though, especially for general-purpose parts.=20


=20

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