Bob I have been able to fit the ICS Basic controller in the front in place of the tone bd. similar to the NHRC retro. So far not had any problems.
Randy --- In [email protected], n...@... wrote: > > At 3/27/2009 07:36, you wrote: > >Bob, I've been considering getting one of the NHRC controllers for a GE > >MVP. Are they dependable, or like your email mentions, having some > >occasional failures? > > IMO, no. Our NHRC-micro has failed 3 times. The first time NHRC was nice > enough to repair it under warranty, but the 2nd time they stopped answering > e-mails, so I fixed it myself as well as the 3rd time a couple of months > ago. Each time the problem was a bad chip capacitor. On the last failure > the chip cap shorted the V+ line, vaporizing a trace as well as some of the > board material. I managed to fix it but it's barely hanging on now. > > The repeater itself is installed in a rather benign environment (3 story > medical office building) & I've been told there hasn't been any lightning > in the area during the entire time it's been in operation. Also nothing > else in the system suffered any damage during this time, including the > Astron power supply, which never crowbarred. So my conclusion is that a > bad batch of chip caps found their way into this unit. Given this > conclusion & NHRC's failure to communicate with me on the 2nd failure I > can't recommend their products, & have been looking for a non-NHRC > replacement controller that would fit in the multi-freq area of an > MVP. Looks like we finally have something available in the RC-99. > > Bob NO6B >
