(ET) Alltrax survey

[Stephen & Carol Welch <welches paonline com>]

Hi All,

Jeff's recent questions about the Alltrax got me to thinking....(a  
dangerous activity under any circumstances)

I'm on my 3rd unit in my E20.  Both prior units failed and would not  
switch from forward to reverse or vice versa.  There were sometimes  
some PTO symptoms as well.  The first unit failed last spring after a  
very short period of use, the second failed at the end of last fall  
with one full season of mowing use.  Steve Richardson and the folks  
at Alltrax have been very willing to exchange the units at no cost,  
and I've gotten my removal/installation time down to about 10  
minutes.  Steve R. thinks that the "H-transistor" has been the  
culprit each time.  He has never questioned my installation or  
indicated that anything was at fault other than components within the  
unit.

I thought maybe I'd do a little unscientific survey here.  I'll post  
the results here in a couple of weeks hopefully.

If you have an Alltrax, please answer the following questions:

1.  Which ET do you have?
2.  Since we don't have hour meters, how many months of active use  
has your unit seen (take your best guess)?
3.  If your unit has required replacement, how many times?
4.  What was the nature of the trouble that lead to each replacement?
5.  Something significant I forgot here??

I'm only doing this survey to satisfy my/our curiosity, *not* to  
"build a case" against Alltrax.  They've been good to me and I very  
much like my controller.  I assume Alltrax does it's own product  
performance tracking, but maybe this survey would uncover something  
useful?

Thanks,

Steve

P.S. I'll be out of town next week, so will respond to any messages  
upon my return.