6809 trunking controller

[kc0sdu]

is there anyone on here who can do the codeplug for the smartnet 6809 smartnet controllers and burn it to the eeprom, i read on here somewhere there was some software out to do this and a prom burner was involved..id rather someone on here do it then have to get moto involved because they bawk when you say ya got a older controller.

[escomm]

http://www.genesisworld.com/

Get your checkbook out.

[kc0sdu]

21 Channel Capable System, price for each is $3,460.00.

28 Channel Capable System, price for each is $1,298.00.

MTC3600 System, price for each is $2,336.00

thats motos qoute with out my price i have partnumbers

would they be cheaper

[escomm]

My understanding was that Motorola wasn't making 6809 codeplugs anymore and sold the business off to Genesis. Perhaps I'm confused

[N4DES]

My understanding was that Motorola wasn't making 6809 codeplugs anymore and sold the business off to Genesis. Perhaps I'm confused

If I remember correctly, due to rebanding Moto had to start again....

[kc0sdu]

yeah i had called them right after i did this post.

[kc0sdu]

Yeah KS4VT your right, i did infact call Genesis and they quit doing it because motorola picked it back up again.

[desperado]

If it's a rebanding change that is required due to the Sprint / Nextel rebanding that is going on in some areas then allow the Motorola ST that's assigned the project to worry about the programming changes. Here is the issue. 6809's are very unstable due to age, and taking one down and repowering it may be enough to crash it for good. We still have several that we are supporting in my service area and one typically creates major issues every time it's looked at funny.

[escomm]

Bumping an old thread

The major problems with 6809s are the capacitors. Electrolytics from the 90s. Where have we heard this before??

Replacing caps goes a LONG way to making trunking systems happy again. A customer of mine had me pulling my hair out with their system going apeshit and doing things it wasn't supposed to be doing. Replacing caps got rid of a lot of gremlins.

[d119]

Bumping an old thread

The major problems with 6809s are the capacitors. Electrolytics from the 90s. Where have we heard this before??

Replacing caps goes a LONG way to making trunking systems happy again. A customer of mine had me pulling my hair out with their system going apeshit and doing things it wasn't supposed to be doing. Replacing caps got rid of a lot of gremlins.

Care to elaborate on the observed problems prior to replacing the capacitors? And I assume you replaced caps on all boards?

[escomm]

Sorry to bump an old thread, didn't see D119's question way back when

Let's see here

System randomly fell into failsoft from time to time, and it would take a random number of resets to bring it back online

System would randomly not assign the next control channel at midnight and would jump down the list

RIB and TIB would randomly say a channel was disabled, resetting the button on the card would sometimes bring it back online, sometimes it wouldn't

Since my original post I've had exactly 0 service calls on this system. The capacitor replacement really got'er done