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Ham549!UJtfjk8V/w 02/11/24(Sun)19:13:52 R No.6509

Always find it very annoying how ridiculously expensive various items are for railroads and I'm sure this goes into other industries as well. A few IR sensors some custom printed circuit boards and a computer that most likely does not need to be any more powerful than your most basic entry level smartphone for a hot box detector cost as much money as a supercar with many thousands of precision made parts. You're basically talking something a bunch of vocational High School kids could design and build for under five grand. Furthermore why are we even still relying on HotBox detectors when you could just mount a rubber hose connected to train air over the adapter plate of a truck so if it overheats the heat generated will melt the hose dumping the train air?

Anonymous 02/12/24(Mon)08:39:48 R No.6511

The cost of equipment in the real world is in the support and contracts, not so much the hardware (though the hardware being rugged and proven is a value all of it's own).

Why are HABDs lineside equipment rather than on train equipment? Because there are so many freight cars that retrofitting hotbox detection to all of them (and having to run around maintaining them) will always be more expensive than having some fixed hardware on the track that the railroads pay to maintain (or not maintain).

1524 02/12/24(Mon)10:19:22 R No.6513
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Corporations just use different currency that has approx 10:1 exchange rate to our money.

Guess what this little trolley for freezer boxes costs? -75 €.
It's not even quality construction, they will snap under load and the bearings are open and will rust.

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