[RTTY] Followup on ESD from last week

[Jim W7RY]

That is Icom's standard response when they don't feel like covering 
something under warrantee. They tried to tell me that on a NEW IC-7200 that 
was dead out of the box and had never been on an antenna.

I appealed, they covered it under warrantee.

If there stuff is so susceptible to ESD , it sounds like a design flaw?


73
Jim W7RY


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From: "Bill Turner" <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 2:10 PM
To: "RTTYReflector" <rtty at contesting.com>
Subject: [RTTY] Followup on ESD from last week

> Got the report from the factory on my non working IC-7600. Turns out it 
> was ESD damage. Three diodes and one IC were destroyed on the tuner 
> control board. Not covered by warranty of course, so that learning 
> experience cost me $223.45  plus shipping of $85 each way. Ouch.
>
> There never was any lightning, just that kind of precipitation static I've 
> heard hundreds of times before, but will never hear again more than a 
> fraction of a second.  :-)
>
>
> Take a lesson, boys and girls.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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