UPDATES: The NC Factory & Vortex
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I am still in NY working on the operating manual. I delayed my trip to NC because the electronics are being finished buy a professional electronics engineer and me watching him asking 1000 questions would not help so I would end up just pacing back and forth like an expected father. They have the diagram and how we want it to look on the control box etc. Our NC partner Ron is also overseeing that control box as well and we talk many times a day, HE IS ON THE CASE!
I will still be going to NC to hoist the VORTEX GNGR sign on the building which is being painted and touched up. (ill have pictures later today)
A 30' x 30' clean room in the 25,000 sq ft. location will be used to assemble the boxes made by the electrical engineer at his location and attached to the kettles at our site. We will ship from NC nationwide UPS ground. Each unit will be tested and given an OK by me personally.
I would have liked to see 500 units sold this year but the delay with the change to fully auto based on the requests forced us to take a step back but still in a forward direction for the better.
Although my focus has been 2015 any sales made in 2014 would be great as well and I do still hope to sell 150 at the least this year.
We still managed to go from an idea I had years ago and actually put it into motion just a few months ago and after 3 prototypes and the change from the manual unit to fully auto unit, I am pleased to say we did what many engineering firms and machinery manufacturers take years to do and at tremendous costs. I personally still use the one prototype manual unit with ease and I am more excited to get my hand on this auto unit and watch it do exactly what I intended it to do, WORK VERY WELL!
I have also set up a Shopify website which is far better then the ones we have and are more up to date with payments and such as we separate our self from PAY PAL into the ability for any credit card acceptance. We are on our 14 day set up trial but today I will seal the deal and than launch it when its complete.
Other then working on the computer to do the owners manual which I have stopped until I get the units so I can take images of the electronics and controls for the manual with how to operate and program the unit, so I am pacing here in NY not NC waiting like everyone else and working on the shopify website.
I will try and get to making changes to the current sites limiting our product selection until I have more time and I don't trust anyone to use the kettle without my help. every day has been about the kettle to get it available before the chocolate making season is upon us in September and when we are most likely to sell more kettles to confection makers who start their inventory and production. And I want our kettles to be 100% perfect!
Once this unit is finished and I test the hell out of it I can then have the patent attorney finalize the patents to reflect the changes we made and add them to our patent pending filings. The Patent office give a year from PAT PEND to Patented so we can make changes and still be protected.
The kettle shells are under construction and the valves and motor etc are all perfect and in production, I just need to make sure the electronic controls perform as stated by the suppliers which I believe they will because I bought only the BEST components. Once I test this first units electronics we simply have to just have the electrical engineer make duplicates and install them.
Grant
