We've built out 50 and they are on the shelf ready to sell! Oh wait, April Fool's has already passed, nevermind.....
Actually, things are going pretty good. We did begin building out 10 more beta units and found they were just taking way too long to build, possibly one per week, not good. So we redesigned a few of the hard to build items (not mechanical, mainly frame structure) to make them go much quicker. With the new design and no wiring, the line can now build 1 per day. Once we have all that correct, then we can scale up to whatever is needed.
So this did set us back, but I'd rather have a delay up front then have to tell someone they have a 16 week wait before they can get a unit. We have preliminary parts for the new build and we should be able to finalize our tweaks to the new build and start on our manufacturing line. Our newest goal is to have our manufacturing line fully ready to go by end of 2nd quarter or beginning of the third. Once that goes fully live, we will have to tweak it as well in order to build and fill the shelves. We are not taking pre-orders, but once we have more defined dates and are taking orders, I'm sure we will be back-logged. My guess is by third quarter, if someone orders, we can ship it the same or next day, just like the Mod1. It will take some take getting the line working like that, but we are pretty close.
As always, don't take my word 100% on this, as you know plans change, but this is our goal. As we progress, if anything changes, we'll try to keep the information out there. This is one reason we've been so tight lipped for so long. It was time to at least make an announcement of what we've been doing for the past couple of years and now the Genesis can't come fast enough!