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Technology Stocks : VALENCE TECHNOLOGY (VLNC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg Smith who wrote (4841)	11/11/1998 2:21:00 PM
From: kolo55	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

Several mistakes in your analysis. Lev is talking about laptop batteries, not cells, I believe. A laptop battery usually has three cells. Further, my latest estimate based on recent specs was about 15 Wh per cell, so a battery holds 45 Wh. If I'm wrong on this, could someone please correct me ASAP. Lev previously said they could do 5 per minute, so that is 3000 batteries per day per 10 hour shift. The lower figure of 1800 would imply a yield of 60%, which is reasonable. If they add a second shift, and can sell the batteries, the bottom line will improve substantially. Finally, the 'design' speed of the assembly line is probably at 8-10 batteries a minute. If they can speed the assembly operations up, the quantities produced will increase greatly. The other processing steps have a lot of surplus capacity. Paul