What Is the Life Expectancy of a Fieldbroadcaster?
Our oldest broadcasters out there are over ten years old, and we don’t see much sign of aging. But we designed them to last at least 20 years and we guarantee all internal components for 5 years. A word of caution, however. It has been found that use of a powerful CB radio transmitter in the near vicinity of a broadcaster probably will blow out the choke coils and both wells will then cease to function and the well circuits will have to be replaced. Farmers and ranchers driving around checking remote locations should definitely avoid using such equipment within a few hundred meters of their fieldbroadcasters. Other than that and the possibility that if the field broadcaster is not sealed moisture may condense within it, we have found almost nothing that can go wrong. As a precaution we build in redundancy of components as fail-safes. The most serious problem we found with the earlier Hieronymous type broadcasters was they tended to fill up with water and there were no test terminals to
