R Net programming dongles ( dealer ) for sale

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There’s a couple of R net programming dongle’s ( dealer ) for sale on eBay

Item number 334607019100

[Burgerman]

£400? Is that for the two?

They are £280 and 43p, retail from any sunrise medical dealer with software, cable etc.. Less still if direct from PG.

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My best friends husband buys from PG all the time and for a dongle there quoting 6/9 months delivery due to parts and it’s the same for the CJSM2 joystick with or without Bluetooth

Sunrise are now saying they will only supply the dongle to registered dealers

[Burgerman]

I will sell you as many dealer ones as you want. At the retail price above. And its right there on the order form for any powerchair you want to buy.


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I just looked on the order forms. The programmer option has been removed...
Thats new! May be because of the chip shortages. Since PG have non either as you say. So temporary.

There are still many places and manufacturers like dietz that will supply you one though. And many dealers.

And places like https://www.partssource.com/parts/sunri ... s38tcltta6 for a fullr OEM version... And the powersoccershop etc.

And another OEM one from aus where theres about 30 dollars to a UK pound!
https://www.activtec.com.au/rnet-dongle-oem

[LROBBINS]

Don't be so sure. P&G may also be blocked by the lack of chips. CAN transceiver chips, for example, have become quite difficult to find - none of the major distributors have MCP 2015 and I had to drill down among smaller Szenzhen resellers to find a couple that have the severe-use certified version.

[Burgerman]

They will eventually catch up. If china stops locking people up in their homes!


I just did a quick look. I have at least a dozen links to places that sell dealer and or OEM across the world. You are right. Every last one says out of stock. Inc sunrise. Some say supply chair shortages no idea when new stock will arrive.

So its a chip shortage issue.

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I think you may be mis-reading the origins of the supply chain snafu. When Covid hit and people stayed home, by choice or by mandate, the demand for some things - automobiles, air travel etc. and the demand for other things - PCs, tablets, smart phones, entertainment gadgets - boomed. Chip manufacturers responded as might be expected; they shut down production of the chips needed for unwanted products, such as CANbus and other automotive and industrial chips, and massively increased production of chips for the things in great demand; memory, central processor chips, motherboards, etc. It takes a good bit of time and investment to switch chip production from one thing to another. Each production run will be for millions of a given item, not for a handful, and production lines and even the machines involved need to be at least modified and oftentimes even replaced. So there's a lag. By the time production of chips for PCs were in full bloom, the PC market tanked and everyone is now left with massive inventories of already getting out of date stuff. Even in the best of times it's not infrequent that things get out of cycle; a few years ago there was a several-months backorder of high quality 3.5mm audio jacks. But these have not been the best of times so when demand for autos or air traffic took off, the manufacturing infrastructure for making the needed components was no longer there. So if you want a car that's not already on a dealer's lot, expect to wait at least a year, same if you just want some CAN chips, or if you're a major airline wanting 100s of 737Max10 just forget it - Boeing can't get the parts needed to make them.

Capitalism works by matching supply (and prices) to demand, but it's a dynamic process, and as with every dynamic process the inputs and outputs don't always run in sync. One sine wave ends up on its positive swing while the other is on the negative. Add to these unforeseen, perhaps unforeseeable, effects of seemingly sensible commercial decisions, full containers sitting in ports because there's no way to load them on already full ships or rail cars, and empty containers sitting at other places unable to get back to where they can be refilled just makes the two oscillators run further out of sync. So far, things are not getting any better. The winners will be the few who, by brilliance or just by luck, manage to match the supply and demand curves.