Re: (ET) Re: ET new technology and abandening the ICE (Rod Hower)

[ted r lowe <trl creativespirits org>]

> is.  It's been my limited experience that black boxes go south fairly 
> quickly
> or not at all.

I just wanted to chime in my 2 cents.  Yes, it's great we have choices
to chase the old technology or upgrade to electronic control.

i drive an on-road Chevy S-10 electric truck and my "black box" went south
last year.  i think it was a rebuilt model with about 3 years on it.
To get going again, i bought another rebuilt unit for $600 since it was out 
of warranty.
The only other charge was the $75 towing to get my EV home from where
the controller failed.  I wish i could have opened up the "black box"
and probably figured out what failed myself, but doing so would have
made it useless for a core replacement to get a rebuilt (then i was 
looking at
$1200 for a new unit).  So black boxes do fail;  they do have a certain 
MTBF, etc.
like most pieces of technology.

i'm enjoying this discussion and am currently debating whether i should
buy an electronic control or "dig in" for my E-20 which has numerous drive 
issues.

Thanks for all your valuable ideas, information and opinions!

Best regards,
ted