Dan wrote: > I turned my Facet on when I started the engine and turned it off when I > turned the engine off. If anyone needs to know the number of hours, I would > guess, around 150. As far as I know, it is still performing the same.
OK, I can top that one. I've had a Facet pump in my Karmann Ghia since 1978, and it runs any time the ignition switch is turned on. I've put about 160,000 miles on it since then. My wife's trip computer on her Audi informs me that we typically drive about 40 miles an hour on average, so I have somewhere around 4000 hours on my Facet, and never a hiccup. I would think that the failure mode on these would be that they might stick after sitting a while, so if it starts, it'll get you there. But then mine sits for months now, and it always fires right up. If there was a big problem with these things overheating for any reason, the company would have fixed them years ago, or gone out of business by now. And these days, you have to design hardware for the folks who don't even read instructions, and there's no telling what they'll try to do with it, so it's prudent to make it bulletproof with a built-in bypass or some other means of self-defense. An excellent piece of equipment... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML at hiwaay.net see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
