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Speaking of the DDC, Dan keeps asking me why we engineers work our butts off to design a 50,000 hour pump, when you guys are going to mod it?
You do understand the mod's you guys are making will have an effect on total operating rating, with both electrical components and bearings?
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Heh.... the answer to that can be found by looking at the market you're selling to... Note here the percentages are VERY rough and plucked atop my head as a "for instance"...
1) Out of the current population that use watercooling, 5% are purists or are fully aware of what they are doing (the ranks of Cathar etc). 20% are getting there (the likes of meself). The remaining 75% have it cos their mates have got it and it makes them feel like their willy is smaller until they get the same, or because a magazine says they should buy it.
2) So, out of that 100%, you then have a second breakdown - the honesty barrier. You have those that'll buy a product, leave it at stock to retain it's warranty, and if they DO decide to mod it, will do so once warranty has expired or will leave it at stock permanently. You then have those that'll buy a product, mod it straight away and completely abandon the warranty and if it dies, it dies. Those two groups probably account for 45% MAXIMUM of the watercooling market, and are generally those who if they DO need to RMA it, will use the manufacturer's RMA over the reseller's RMA if it exists. The remaining chunk consists of those who'll happily buy it, mod it, invalidate warranty by doing so, item fails, they'll remove mods, spend days restoring it to it's factory state, then RMA it anyways. In Europe, inevitably the replacement is issued by the reseller as that's where it got returned to, and that's what EC law dictates. It's not cost effective to be forwarding RMAs over to the US etc.... cheaper to write them off entirely in a lot of cases due to shipping costs etc.
3) On here you have the small international representation of those resellers who prefer the honesty approach imo. The thing being, what those on here say is generally taken as the rule of thumb once it's filtered from here to other sites. Most of what gets said about a product on here will spread down the grapevine, basically leaving it in a state that if one of a number of ppl on ProCooling Forums said it, then it's not to be argued with, taken as correct, and becomes adopted as a new law... this isn't a BAD thing at all.... it's a superb thing due to the quality of info and the strong residence in FACTUAL based info backed up by consolidated testing and methodology... so altho at the moment your efforts to design a 50k hour pump is primarily for the few, once it gains the approval of those few the word will swiftly spread, and everyone will want a willy as big as the guys on here have.
Summary: If ProCooling announces a product worth having, the grapevine will do the rest and the product will inevitably sell. If ProCooling slates a product, the same effect, and the product won't sell... by satisfying the few, you eventually satisfy the many. And hence sales on the CSP-750 were never as they were originally expected to be...
As long as your own back is covered by ensuring everything you say is factual and proveable thru testing within the market sector to which the product is aimed, you have nothing to worry about... and your consumer market and resellers will have nothing to worry about.
Note: 2 other folks read this prior to posting and all said it was confusing to read, but I can't word it any better in my current state - you get my drift tho hopefully...!