<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 9:45 AM, SavagePossum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:savagepossum@gmail.com" target="_blank">savagepossum@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">This is a "cross post" from the PX-888K Yahoo Group. Any comments or<br>
knowledge of this planned radio life span?<br>
<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</blockquote><div><br></div><div>What does this have to do with the VX-3? I notice you tagged your post as "in-reply-to" the VX-3 thread, and also used that subject:</div><div><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">References: <003701d082a8$54eeb0f0$fecc12d0$@<a href="http://wildblue.net">wildblue.net</a>>
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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:45:38 -0500
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Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Setting up banks/groups on Yaesu VX-3
</pre></div><div>I bet thousands of chirp_users subscribers who don't own a VX-3 will never open this message.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, please keep messages related to Chirp. It sounds like this issue is more influenced by power on/off cycles than programming cycles, and is limited to a few specific radios. Please keep discussion of non-programming issues with these radios on their own mailing lists.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom KD7LXL</div></div></div></div>