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Just hit 200 hours on my new Kirby Morgan hat and the comms are still crystal clear
After my last helmet had constant static after about 80 hours, I was expecting the same. Has anyone else gotten way more life out of a new comms system than they thought they would?
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blake_owens21d ago
Honestly, maybe it's less about the hours and more about what you're doing in it. A helmet getting banged around in a service truck twice a day for 80 hours is taking more of a beating than one that lives on a clean boat and gets used for two long projects a year. The wear isn't always just on a timer.
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lucashenderson21d ago
Yeah I was just reading a forum thread about this last week. Somebody said they got like 300 hours out of a set before any real drop in quality. Makes me wonder if the older batches just had worse wiring or something. I mean, 80 hours with static sounds rough, so hitting 200 clear is a solid win. Maybe they finally fixed that issue.
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ward.tara21d ago
Doubt it's a batch issue at all. Blake_owens has a point about how you use the gear being the real factor here. People just love finding patterns where there aren't any, don't they?
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