I had rf die on me on a 5ghz 450 5min out of box at a new install today no red 
letters for ADI though..



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On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am sure they are doing lots of talking.... just not to us...
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Mark Radabaugh
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 8:27 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] New Cambium 450 SM's dying after a couple of 
> dayswith"ADI communication error"
> It would help a lot if Cambium was actually talking.   Or maybe I have to 
> hunt it down in their forum.
> I have not seen a lot of OOB failures.  They seem to last about 24 to 96 
> hours before falling over dead.   We are seeing a mix of ADI Communication 
> errors where they basically go deaf, and ones that watchdog reboot 
> constantly.    I don’t know if it matters if they are associated with a AP 
> or not, but I don’t really have room or facilities to do burn-in testing.
> Mark
>> On Aug 18, 2015, at 10:19 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Are most of these failing out of box, or after days or weeks in service? 
>> I suspect the failure must be at least somewhat intermittent, or we would 
>> never get past initial configuration.
>>
>> Is it possible to pre-screen for this before sending SMs out with 
>> installers?  Is it necessary for the SM to actually be registered to an AP 
>> for the failure to occur?
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: George Skorup
>> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 8:21 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] New Cambium 450 SM's dying after a couple of days 
>> with"ADI communication error"
>>
>> I had a 5GHz SM showing ADI communication failure in red. I sent a
>> screenshot. The other was a 3.6GHz SM and showed only RF calibration
>> failure. They wanted to have Tier 3 support get access to it to
>> recalibrate. I explained that the event log was showing ADI forced reset
>> invoked, and it watchdog reset about every minute or two, just like the
>> 5GHz radio. After that, they accepted it for RMA, without the
>> recalibration. Those definitely showed issues on the bench immediately
>> at boot. I have about 30 more SMs in stock ready to be deployed and I
>> hope there are no more of these.
>>
>> On 8/17/2015 8:03 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>>> I've had one so far, it ran for awhile at a customer then started 
>>> rebooting for a few hours, run for a few hours, reboot for a few more 
>>> hours.  Cambium wanted a screenshot, evidently the event log wasn't good 
>>> enough.  I ran the bad one at the office for a few hours and it didn't 
>>> screw up.
>>>
>>> They had me send it to the repair place in Elgin.  What do you want to 
>>> bet they will say no trouble found and send it back?
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message----- From: Mark Radabaugh
>>> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 7:25 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] New Cambium 450 SM's dying after a couple of days 
>>> with"ADI communication error"
>>>
>>> 3 more this weekend.
>>>
>>> One lucky customer is on the 4th radio.  We found her a 6 month old radio 
>>> for the next attempt at repairing it.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>> On Aug 17, 2015, at 7:53 PM, George Skorup <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Knock on wood.. we've had two confirmed (already RMA'd) and maybe a 3rd 
>>>> out of 60-70 so far. It sucks, but shit happens.
>>>>
>>>> On 8/17/2015 6:31 PM, Jeff Hardy wrote:
>>>>> I'm halfway through a box of 25 with 4 failures so far, all requiring 
>>>>> truck rolls and embarrassment. I'm going to hold off on sending in the 
>>>>> box of dead radios as we will probably have another one tomorrow.  Nice 
>>>>> to know they are working on it....
>>>>> Jeff
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 08/12/2015 09:43 AM, Mark Radabaugh wrote:
>>>>>> Oh, how the mighty have fallen. People used to write articles about 
>>>>>> Motorola quality: 
>>>>>> http://www.qualitymag.com/articles/84187-motorola-a-tradition-of-quality
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 3 failed so far out of a 25 pack - no six Sigma here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Cambium - what’s going on, and how many more of these can we 
>>>>>> expect to fall over dead?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not cool when it happens to the same new customer twice in 10 days. 
>>>>>> Makes us look like idiots.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mark
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>

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