Reply With QuoteSeems like several mfgs have jumped on the platform. The chinese mfg must have plenty of capacity to spread around.
Seems like several mfgs have jumped on the platform. The chinese mfg must have plenty of capacity to spread around.
To the best of my knowledge, the Garmin is chinese built.Originally Posted by charlie b
Athlon appears to be coming on strong in a number of products. If this thing is for real, at half the price of a Garmin, it's gonna take a bite out of their pocketbook.
Do what you want, but it's still Chinesium. Garmins are built in Taiwan where most all the chips of the
world are made for everything electronic. Taiwan is currently building a chip factory here in the states.
Price to the consumer may go up a bit (or a lot) if Trump gets his way on tariffs.
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I've got two high end Garmin depthfinders on my tournament bass boat and they are outstanding pieces of equipment and expensive as hell. I especially like their ability to be easily software/feature updated. Unfortunately, China has taken over manufacturing on damn near everything. My major complaint outside of that is that so many companies move their manufacturing offshore and yet don't pass the savings onto the customers. I could write a book about how the music instrument industry has done exactly that.
If it works as well as the Garmin it will be a bargain at almost half the price.
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Data submitted for FCC type approval and performance in the wild will help with the decision to purchase one.
Might have some info by April/June.
I really don't care if they are made in China or not. But, the mfgs have been bit a lot by 'their' chinese mfg plant modifying a design slightly and selling it cheap under another brand. That's why a lot of mfgs have left China for places like Korea, Taiwan and Philippines. It raises their costs a bit but protects their IP rights.
At least a couple of the chinese plants have just taken the QC failed items and sold at discount online (Alibaba is famous for this), complete with the US company boxes. A friend got screwed on one of those, a high end Garcia fishing reel for 1/4 price. Drag didn't work at all since a piece was missing in the assembly.
Anyone see data on the Athlon yet?
Is it cw bullet in beam, 24ghz like the Garmin, or 60ghz like the LX?
Does the box say "Made in -------"?
And does Made in ------- mean made with parts from China, like Briggs and Stratton castings?
I guess Garmin does manufacture some items in Kansas, like watches. What else is made here, with most of the parts also made here?
How will tariffs hit prices?
'Made in USA' is dictated by law. I don't remember the exact numbers but a certain number of subassemblies have to be made in the US and I think assembled here, but, I'd recommend you look that up. I know Harley Davidson almost got dinged because too many parts were being made outside the country. The US car makers also have to monitor this since some of them are assembled in Canada. We used to ship copper wire to a number of factories in Mexico (GM, Ford, Honda, Nissan, etc) where they made the wiring harnesses, which were then sent to the assembly plants. The PVC we used for insulation on the wires came from Mexico. Copper came from the US (NM and AZ mostly) since El Paso had one of the larger copper rod mills.
Just some of the reasons I don't really care what the label says. Sometimes it is good to know where key components come from, like Japanese optical lenses vs Chinese. Quality of the final product from a Chinese mfg can be very good, or very bad, just like some US companies.
Tariffs will just raise product prices here in the US. The purpose of tariffs is to cause the price to be closer to what could be manufactured in the US, to protect US workers. Problem is most of those businesses went overseas decades ago. The last time tariffs were imposed on Chinese goods there was a surge in the price of goods made in China that were sold here in the US. It started the inflation issues that were then aggravated by COVID handouts, then went ballistic in the last 4 yrs.
Other countries use tariffs as well. When I lived in Germany in the 70's a US made car cost MUCH more than they cost in the US due to German tariffs on US cars. A Chevy Impala cost as much as the top Mercedes model and a Cadillac was in Ferrari territory. That was done to keep US makers from hurting the German mfgs and the job market.
All of this leads a potential buyer to do this IMHO. I am the potential buyer as I need to replace my old "shoot through the sticks" Chrony. I either wait until tariffs drive prices high. Or I drop the money on a Garmin now.
Gee...thanks allot guys! hahahah
Larry
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