KD8DVR
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Has anyone opened their radios to determine if the New UV8D and 9D radios have the "suicide chip" that causes failure after it fails. The chip is the 24C64 EEPROM. It is alleged that ALL of these chips regardless of manufacturer will fail as they have a limit to the number of read-write cycles.
As a refresher: Most Wouxun radios will write out their memory to the 24C64 upon power off and do a read from the same chip upon power on. As a result the chip fails; due to this action after a number of power cycles.
If the new Wouxun radios also have this chip; it is entirely possble these radios will fail in the same fashion as the UVD(X)P series radios.
As a refresher: Most Wouxun radios will write out their memory to the 24C64 upon power off and do a read from the same chip upon power on. As a result the chip fails; due to this action after a number of power cycles.
If the new Wouxun radios also have this chip; it is entirely possble these radios will fail in the same fashion as the UVD(X)P series radios.