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<font color="#9FA2A5"><span style="padding-left:6px">Thursday, April
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__pbrmquotes="true" class="__pbConvBody"><div>This is a "cross post"
from the PX-888K Yahoo Group. Any comments or<br>knowledge of this
planned radio life span?<br></div></div></blockquote><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tim-yvonne.com/ham/wouxun-memory/index.htm">http://tim-yvonne.com/ham/wouxun-memory/index.htm</a><br><blockquote
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__pbrmquotes="true" class="__pbConvBody"><div><br>The PX-888K radios
have the family of "suicide chip" that causes failure<br>after it fails.
The chip is the 24C32 EEPROM. It is alleged that ALL of<br>these
chips regardless of manufacturer will fail as they have a limit to the<br>number
of read-write cycles.<br><br>This chip is verified inside the Puxing
PX-888K Radio. If anyone has any<br>issues please let the group know.<br><br>As
a refresher: Most Wouxun radios will write out their memory to the
24C64<br>upon power off and do a read from the same chip upon power on.
As a result<br>the chip fails; due to this action after a number of
power cycles. <br><br>The 24C32 is a smaller capacity of the same chip
family. There have been NO<br>cases of this failure as the design of
the radio may possibly not be as<br>read-write intensive as the Wouxun
radios.<br><br>The Savage Possum<br></div></div></blockquote>-- <br><div
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