Too Simple To Figure Out Dept...!?!
The more smart or automatic an appliance becomes the more time and money you'll spend trying to make it work. Net result: You lose time and you lose a ton of money. Great for technician's income...
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Yes DrewE that is exactly the point. When I built the BORG I had to muck my way through hundreds of points. I insisted on reliability. Therefore incandescent and fluorescent pilot lamps were chucked in favor of LED.
Wind up Intermatic Timers are found in gas station bathrooms because of their reliability. Thousands of cycles are shrugged off. A cam over mil spec snap action selector switch will last three lifetimes. Same with the premium rotary 10 turn potentiometers.
Finally inside the Megawatts upgrading to Panasonic capacitors and 80 ampere 200 volt Schottky diodes over 20-amp 100 volt originals makes all the durability difference in the world. Improving fan flow by 200% is the final kicker. PROOF? Seven years 24/7 flawless operation.
When my thirteen hundred dollar Norcold cost me more than a thousand dollars just to access warranty repairs and a Norcold factory tech spent more than a week scratching his A$S trying to figure out why the unit and two new cooling units had intermittent plus continuous other continuous problems -- it was the end of the line. The Danforth compressors have been flawless for 26 years. I tend to get cranky when a 1957 Servel refrigerator operated flawlessly for six years but a 1992 Norcold was a failure. The Servel definitely needed air circulation enhancement inside the Vestfrosts do not.
The Atwood 10 gallon MANUAL hot water heater has never failed to light with a match. Heaters are sort of exempt as I do not have a basement and all the plumbing I have is buried deep in insulation. I chickened out of cold weather.
20 years. no heater, no AC, no refrigerator, no hot water control malfunctions. Because everything is manual. ZERO repair cost, zero driving to a repair warranty station, no lost days, no lost hours -- ever since I wised up to the zoo of automatic system control.
Like I mentioned, look at the list of forum topics. I meet travelers who chuckle and reveal they too have chosen to retrograde to the land of arising from the recliner and getting the job done manually. You should see the failure rate of some of that electronic hoo-hah down here after rough roads and Mexican campground power gets through with it.
Wind up Intermatic Timers are found in gas station bathrooms because of their reliability. Thousands of cycles are shrugged off. A cam over mil spec snap action selector switch will last three lifetimes. Same with the premium rotary 10 turn potentiometers.
Finally inside the Megawatts upgrading to Panasonic capacitors and 80 ampere 200 volt Schottky diodes over 20-amp 100 volt originals makes all the durability difference in the world. Improving fan flow by 200% is the final kicker. PROOF? Seven years 24/7 flawless operation.
When my thirteen hundred dollar Norcold cost me more than a thousand dollars just to access warranty repairs and a Norcold factory tech spent more than a week scratching his A$S trying to figure out why the unit and two new cooling units had intermittent plus continuous other continuous problems -- it was the end of the line. The Danforth compressors have been flawless for 26 years. I tend to get cranky when a 1957 Servel refrigerator operated flawlessly for six years but a 1992 Norcold was a failure. The Servel definitely needed air circulation enhancement inside the Vestfrosts do not.
The Atwood 10 gallon MANUAL hot water heater has never failed to light with a match. Heaters are sort of exempt as I do not have a basement and all the plumbing I have is buried deep in insulation. I chickened out of cold weather.
20 years. no heater, no AC, no refrigerator, no hot water control malfunctions. Because everything is manual. ZERO repair cost, zero driving to a repair warranty station, no lost days, no lost hours -- ever since I wised up to the zoo of automatic system control.
Like I mentioned, look at the list of forum topics. I meet travelers who chuckle and reveal they too have chosen to retrograde to the land of arising from the recliner and getting the job done manually. You should see the failure rate of some of that electronic hoo-hah down here after rough roads and Mexican campground power gets through with it.
