[Elecraft] Any thoughts about rig LONGEVITY???

[WILLIS COOKE]

We used to wear out rigs by wearing out the tuning gears on the tuning capacitor.  Lately, it by display readouts going obsolete and the rice box manufacturers not offering a replacement part.  It will probably be the push buttons or the display on the K3 if Elecraft does not continue to stock them.  I doubt if turning the rig on and off will be a deciding factor.

Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ


--- On Tue, 12/30/08, JIM DAVIS <nn6ee at astound.net> wrote:

> From: JIM DAVIS <nn6ee at astound.net>
> Subject: [Elecraft] Any thoughts about rig LONGEVITY???
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 12:17 PM
> Gentlemen,
> 
> This I'm sure has been thought about by many
> individuals for many years especially myself.
> 
> Do you think that by cycling a rig (turning it off and on)
> for years has anything to do with it's
> LIFE, especially since with that process the internal
> components would be subject to current 
> surges,
> maybe eventually breaking them down? Especially with the
> IC/micro-processors we all have in our 
> more modern rigs now!
> 
> Or do others out here just leave their rigs on 24/7 with my
> initial thought in mind???
> 
> WHADDAH YA THINK???
> 
> Regards to ALL & a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!
> 
> Jim/nn6ee
> 
> 
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