"Padeen" wrote in
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What's failing?



The main chassis of the stupid thing is made of pot metal! Every day the
little drain tube breathes out in the sunshine then back in all that
humidity when the sun goes down and the guts of it cool, making it
literally rain inside all over this zinc. It eats the chassis, rusts the
magnetron's core and any exposed tuning screws until some of the potmetal
oxides drop off onto the PC boards inside the open-frame box. Of course,
this and the internal rainstorm shorts out the electronics, rendering it
useless.

They don't "leak". The water all over the inside is fresh, not seawater.
There's no cracks in the radome cover or the seals between the top and
bottom. It's just condensation because the damned thing breathes.

Raymarine has been quite nice about it. We send the trashed unit back,
they determine it's trashed completely, then send us a new one, even paying
the freight. But, how long can this go on? Their answer to why is "this
happens in certain climates". Yeah, any place near the ocean!....

It would seem the whole thing needs a good redesign using ELECTRONICS
ENGINEERS, this time, instead of cost accountants. They can't be making
any money building them and sending me new units every year.....