*ding, ding, ding* we have a winner On Aug 26, 2017 10:29 AM, "Kurt Fankhauser" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Where do these MTBF ratings come from by radio manufacturers? Are they > just made up numbers the manufacturer "hopes" that the product can achieve > or is actual testing done to get to these numbers? I thought i seen a radio > once with a 90 year MTBF rating. How they hell can they determine that? The > components in the radio didn't even exist 90 years ago. > > If a radio manufacture states in the spec sheets that the radio has a 40 > year MTBF rating but then also admits that after 4 years expect to have > problems due to a design flaw, what does that mean? Is the expected MTBF > rating only good in a "lab environment" under "ideal conditions"? > > Seems to me the MTBF is just marketing fluff and actually doesn't mean > crap.... >
