[RE-wrenches] What to do with failed Outback boards

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Kris Stone 425 233 0731
> On Feb 1, 2021, at 8:08 AM, Roy Butler <roy at four-winds-energy.com> wrote:
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> Hi Nick,
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> I have my legacy OB boards repaired by Kris Stone in Washington State.
> He was the FX repair tech at Outback for 5yrs before they farmed it out to min wage temps in AZ.
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> His prices are reasonable.
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> stkrizzi at yahoo.com
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> On 1/31/2021 10:57 PM, Nick A Lucchese wrote:
>> Hello again,
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>> Just wondering if anyone has been made aware of an ideal solution for failed Outback boards for the VFX and FX series? Maybe it’s their policy with the newer FXR series as well but ever since the Alpha Group acquired them around 2010 (I believe that’s when the headaches started anyway) and they stopped doing the prepaid shipping and replacement boards back and forth I’ve been collecting a nice little stash of their e-waste. A few times I was able to fit them in other boxes being sent to back to them but my shelves are getting a bit encumbered now and in the effort of starting 2021 with less clutter I’ve decided it’s time to stop collecting truly unusable parts. There are plenty of other pieces of used equipment I’m still going to hold onto but really can’t see a purpose for these boards any more. Is there anyone out there taking advantage of this business opportunity and repairing them or are they truly destined to e-waste collection? I thought of doing some cool large art piece out of them as well but thinking I should talk myself out of that option. Any ideas? My guess is Enersys isn’t going to come up with a solution to this any time soon either.
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>> Nick Lucchese
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