Hi everyone,
Following on from our previous MTS webinar (on openness and collaboration), we’ve got a new one coming up in early February - this time from our R&D team! 
Like last time, you can register to join it live, ask questions about it / continue discussion here, and we’ll be posting the video recording afterwards for anyone who couldn’t make it 
Reminder to anyone interested that this webinar is happening tomorrow
For anyone who missed the webinar, the video is now available!
Chapter timestamps will be added soon, to help jump to your favourite sections
What exciting news! But since you’re showing off this treat, could you give us a release date? When will those magnificent cables be available? What’s the maximum amperage rating? And when will those American-made thrusters be available approximately?
Thanks
Indeed - it’s an exciting world we’re pushing towards, hopefully collectively as a community!
This was asked at 38:51 in the webinar, and responded to at the time. Short answer: not yet!
By nature new developments involve a bunch of unsolved problems, including in creating production lines and testing processes to make things at sufficient scale and quality to meet demand at a reasonable price point. Timeline estimates for that are not guaranteed[1], so while we may share some of the frontier boundaries we’re pushing, we don’t provide release estimates until the groundwork has been laid[2].
This webinar shared a few significant aspects of the future we envision and are trying to help manifest. The ideas range from products that are nearing the end of their validation cycles, to concepts we’re investigating but are still very fluid on.[3]
The BR team is working hard to make sure our contributions can help enable a future full of possibilities, and …
Range-based technical details like this are generally one of the last things to finalise, because they depend on validation results and the safety factors we determine are important for the level of reliability we want (and need) to provide. As was discussed in the webinar, the longer term vision is for components (from us and others) to at least have the option to be swapped or added to a system without too much hassle, and the connector lineup will need to support that.
Eldin mentioned in the talk that the connector had been through multiple full redesigns, for example ↩︎
at which point the remaining efforts have more known scopes (like writing documentation and creating product pages and the like) ↩︎
How they were presented will likely give some sense of the expected release order. ↩︎
Great to see all the cool products coming down the pipeline.