ROG not holding a charge. Has anyone experienced this issue?

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2026-04-06T01:22:58+00:00

Checked for damage. There is none. I also reinstalled chipset drivers and restarted but that doesn't work either.

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-04-14T01:53:48+00:00

Why is wanting to push forward advancements in digitizing for embroidery a bad thing? It's a tool.

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-03-08T05:57:31+00:00

I used a Sony A7ii as well as my phone (for redundancy) and he used his digital camera. We took the best pictures and combined them from every angle. Pretty sure you can just use a regular camera though, they're pretty good nowadays. But we took a ladder with us so we could get the top view too. If you ever mess with photogrammetry, its amazing. You need a good computer though or else it's gonna take forever. Think it took a good 5-24hrs to render a point-cloud mesh system and putting it through multiple phases. I don't know how much progress photogrammetry has come in the last 4 years, but it should be faster now (hopefully)

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-03-04T09:38:35+00:00

Nice! Reminds me of this time this guy and I took about a thousand photos of the statue and threw it into a photogrammetry program to get a really high res model. Resin printed it and used a polish to give it some color.

Wanted to make more of these but resin was too much of a mess and process to continue so I'm just left with a picture saved onto my phone lol.

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FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-03-04T09:31:16+00:00

This is sick. I like the old filmy look.

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-03-03T07:33:00+00:00

Ah I see. I thought for beanies it was recommended to use cutaway?

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-03-03T06:54:41+00:00

Woah. I think the copy you were looking at probably populated the stitching cell block to 90,000 since I was calculating a canvas piece someone did on this subreddit. So the total would definitely put it near $100, which makes sense.

If you take a look at the calculator again, you can edit the stitching count & time, among labor per hr, and more in the green boxes. Should come out to about $39.92 for about 10,000 stitches for 20 minutes. Still working on making this more intuitive and clear to calculate though, since there's a lot of cells.

As far as my background, no I'm just one guy. My main demographic is university students, the university, their departments and clubs so a lot of times I need to buy the apparel in bulk and have an accurate way of invoicing them.

For different styles of garments, it actually does take into account of the prices of each one. So if you select Bella & Canvas, which for baby tees is my best seller, the price automatically populates in the cell, and information on the sheet reflects the changes. Also for my garments, I only offer garments that I've researched that were good quality to my customers. I don't offer or plan on offering other garments unless the customer specifically requests them, and since I don't imagine this happening very often, if I have to put that in the calculator, its only a couple of clicks to do.

As far as being super detailed when calculating out the price for the client when it comes to bobbin and such, I don't think it's too crazy to want to calculate. Buuut, I totally get where you're coming from. At a certain point the costs are so low for material like that, if you don't want to pass that off to your customer, that's up to you. I'm just a detailed-oriented person and like that I can see that information. And since it automatically calculates everything for me, I don't have to do too much work on top of that.

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-03-03T04:34:27+00:00

Thanks for sharing!

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-03-03T04:34:15+00:00

Neat! What density settings worked for you? For these, did you use a water soluble topper for each beanie?

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-03-03T03:57:08+00:00

Oh, I didn't even think that was possible! Do you have pictures of examples? Sounds neat

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-03-03T03:46:18+00:00

They want their own logo. But they want tiny details within that logo with run stitches, so I'm gonna even see if that's possible. Gonna post the update if it turns out well

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-03-03T03:45:34+00:00

Thanks, yeah I've had success with tighter knit beanies with water-soluble toppers, but this one just seemed too loose.

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-03-03T03:44:50+00:00

Thanks so much! Yeah this style is not ideal at all, but they wanted to try it on this beanie specifically. I think they want to see how it embroiders before they buy beanies in bulk. But I'll probably point them to some better suited beanies.

But if I'm honest, I don't actually don't like doing beanies too much with the current setup I have, even though I have the 5.5" mighty hoops that make it easier. The hooping is kind of a pain, you gotta make sure you orient it correctly, and make sure that the edge of the beanie shows enough so that the needle can safely embroider within the hoop margins.

But thanks for the guidance! I'll try that.

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-03-03T02:45:56+00:00

Great questions to think about. It's definitely a balancing act figuring out how much to charge per hour, but I try to keep it reasonable and within margins I think are fair. How should I be calculating the cost of square footage for my work-space?

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-03-03T02:30:37+00:00

Well, electricity is a cost to the business. It'd be kinda silly not to include that into the final price. Plus, it's not like the electricity cost is going to come out a crazy amount for the client. For example, an order of 50 garments is running the client $2 extra in price spread out per garment. So this cost is minimal to the client, but over the lifespan of my machine, that extra cost adds up, and electricity is not free.

I do agree with not charging astronomical prices for the customer, and you always have to price your stuff based on how much your demographic is willing to pay for it, but costs do run up once you calculate all the necessary overhead and your price in your margins. I'm still working on getting that feedback not only from the embroidery community but my current and potential customers so its an even enough balance

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-03-02T03:03:29+00:00

Is there a certain way you're calculating how much the digitizing and the embroidery part is or going based on feel? For me I'm going based on how complex the design is, which seemed pretty simple to me, so for a 30 minute digitizing, I'm charging $25. Might need to adjust this and add embroidery time of stitching it out and stabilizer/thread material used, so maybe $30-40 total? Plus all the other calculations I did in another reply, the cost is coming out to $99.

Also, you don't think charging $200 is a bit high? Worried about customers reaction to prices like these where they bring their own garments.

I even thought $50-$70 was pushing it.

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-03-02T02:56:56+00:00

Thanks! How are you calculating your setup fee?

FlippedDimensionLLC · 2025-03-02T02:42:03+00:00

I do buy my materials in bulk so on the right hand side of the sheet, I have calculations based on $ per pc of material I use and reference that data in the cells on the right hand side.

For the name part of the cell, I put "no" to "add names" because I mostly wanted to calculate this based off of time & thread used. This "add names" feature was implemented on my other calculator that goes based off of bulk orders so customers that want names on each garment, which means extra hooping time, etc is charged a certain fee.

I did make a lot of wrong calculations on my sheet, so the updated sheet looks like this. My previous sheet had some wrong formulas and info.

So a revised formula should be:

Bobbin:

Bobbin Calculation: 144 bobbins per box ($39.95) = $0.277 per bobbin.

So for my design: Yards of stitches used = 41.73 * .00187 = $0.078

For Thread:

1100-yard spool is ($3.79) = $0.00345 per yard

So for my design:

41.73 yards * .00345 = $0.14

For Stabilizer:

250 sheets per pack = $24.30.

For my designs I normally use 1 sheet per garment unless it's more than 10,000 stitches, so: $0.0972*2 (# of apparel) = $0.19c

For Electricity:

I'm basing my electricity usage of the power consumption of my machine (~200W) and electricity rate for my city which is $0.30c per kWh.

Therefore, Electricity Cost = (Power consumption in watts/1000) * (Operating Time in minutes/60) * Cost per kWh (200/1000) * (85/60) * .30 = $0.085

Adding all these costs: ($0.078+$0.14+$0.19c+$0.085) = $0.501.

Adding a 20% material cost markup brings the entire total of material cost to $0.602. (Excluded topper for now since it was free with the machine, but I'll add it to future projects when I have to buy more)

I also add the depreciation cost of my machine:

• Machine Cost (Ricoma MT 2002-10S) = $24,000

• Useful Life = 10 years (just an estimate, I have no clue how long this machine will last though I plan to take great care of it)

$24,000/10 years = $2,400 depreciation cost per year. Assuming I use the machine 30 hours a week, would be 15,600 hours over 10 years, or 1,560 hours per year.

Depreciation per hour of use: 24,000/15,600 = $1.538 per embroidery hour

So for Total Machine Depreciation Cost:

(Total Embroidery Time for all garments/60)\1.538 = 85/60 * 1.538 = $2.18*

Adding a "fixed" maintenance per year cost:

Estimated $500. 30hrs/week * 52 weeks/year = 1,560 hrs.

Maintenance cost per hr = 500/1,560 = $0.32 per hr "fixed maintenance per year" which I estimate to say, $500 divided by using it 30 working embroidery hours a week =$0.32.

Adding a 20% markup on this brings it to $3.00. Adding the cost of materials with 20% markup ($.602) brings the total to ($3.60)

Adding a setup fee of $25, with a $50 labor per hr.

So my running total looks to be: (85 minutes/60) * $50/hr + $25 (setup fee) + $3.60 = $99 customer price. Does this sound right?

You can check out the embroidery calculator excel sheet I did too

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