Don, I don't follow. Why are you faulting Flex due to the way your computer is built? Have you ever looked inside the case of a 5000A?
Kirb - VE6IV -- Don Rasmussen wrote: > The K3 is light for what it does, and simple. I have no doubt that if the K3 > were wrapped with bubble wrap and double boxed, it could be dropped from > almost any height without harm. Some of the K3 contemporaries, I'm not so > certain about. FT2000 - yikes. There is a power supply in there and there are > so many interconnected boards spread over a large area. Nice reliable looking > radio in there but I wouldnt want to test drop it for any reason. I would be > nervous about sending it in for repair that some little thing could work > itself out of position, etc. > > Orion is better but still a lot of unsupported open space. > > FLEX - ;-) ha - my PC falls apart just sitting on the floor. I am constantly > slapping my DELL back together. Fairness to FLEX, they are not racing with > Icom to be the Dxpedition transceiver of choice. > > There is an old school term for some gear, MTBF. It just seems to me looking > at the K3 simplicity, that there is a whole lot less to go wrong, even though > Elecraft is always the first one to make anything that may happen, right. > > So I am wondering. I have an FT101 from 1975 that's still going great and > it's as complex as heck inside and so many moving parts to stick, caps to > harden, bandswitch contacts to foul. How long will K3 go, in comparison. > After burn in, years I'd guess, lots of them. Seems that like jets, daily > expansion and contraction might be it's biggest stresser. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
