Bill Swingle wrote:
Martin raises a good point. I have to confess that I've recommended
folks have their transmitters checked out every few years. But, that's
based on general knowledge that I can't "backup" for this specific
application.
I don't have any hard data on the behavior of solid state equipment over
time.
Wow, "solid state", haven't heard that in a while.
The TX does take a lot of abuse. Getting dropped, knocked around.
Antennas get pushed and pulled all the time. (As anyone with a Vision
may have experienced). The electronics are not in a sealed environment.
There is dust, dirt, humidity, lots of things that can eventually find
there way to the right place. Running TX with the antenna down might
produce some extra heat on the RF output electronics.
All the materials in the transmitter can age which affects thier
performance. Plus mechanical problems like switches and pots wearing out.
Of course, given the types of comments on this topic, there are lots of
folks out there who just keep running things until they break.
SOme people check thier batteries all the time, others never check them.
It's no fun loosing an airplane to equipment failure. You just have
to decide how much time you want to spend preventing equipment failures.
Anyway, it's almost spring. Time to start checking out your models that
may have been sitting around for a while.
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