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Ray Derrick
Master Film Handler
Posts: 310
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 10-18-2002 06:25 AM
Gordy, the readers are not Panalogic products, they are made in Australia by ICS, a separate company. Panalogic was invited to do the electronic design and development. We also supplied the specification for the solar cells which have a narrower slit and lower dark current than the Dolby units. We were originally reluctant to have the Panalogic name associated with a product that looks (externally at least) similar to the Component Engineering units, however the readers turned out to be so good that we decided to take on the distribution and we do intend to promote them on our web site very shortly. The units have two power supply options, a basic analog-LED-only version and a really neat dual analog/digital-LED supply that includes a 3-digit current readout for each of the analog and digital LED supplies. AFAIK this is the first ever such supply to use a microprocessor (in fact two of them) to control and monitor the current in each LED. When we do something we try to do it better than everyone else, boys and girls! We are not in the cloning business.Richard, where did you get the idea that Australia has high tariffs? Most cinema equipment comes into Australia tariff-free, unlike your country where the tariff is 5%! Australia is far less protectionist than the USA, thank you very much. Just ask our farmers who get a really rotten deal from the US  ------------------
Ray Derrick
President/Chief Engineer
Panalogic Corporation Sydney, Australia
Phone: 61 (0)2 9894 6655 Fax: 61 (0)2 9894 6935
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Ray Derrick
Master Film Handler
Posts: 310
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 10-20-2002 05:12 AM
Good on you John Pytlak. Our farmers are having a really tough time at the moment with the worst drought in many years. They can use all the help they can get.Richard you were probably thinking of some South East Asian countries (like India) that have enormous tariff barriers (100%+). However there IS a significant currency exchange rate difference between the Australian dollar and the US dollar, which makes US products expensive here, but this is due to the high value of the US dollar and not Australian government policy, so it is a problem worldwide for the US. ------------------
Ray Derrick
President/Chief Engineer
Panalogic Corporation Sydney, Australia
Phone: 61 (0)2 9894 6655 Fax: 61 (0)2 9894 6935
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) and the LED positioning problem has been solved with a better design bracket.
and Ray are on the same exchange rate figure as each other. Simple solution..... Sneak your stuff up to 
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