Is it made for eternity?

Elektron Gear
#21

judging from the popularity of the 808 and 303 Elektron stuff is probably too good at what it is designed to do to become timeless anyway.

make stuff crap again!

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#22

The posts from people having issues with the new encoders got me worried though. Specially the ones that describe scratchy heavy feeling encoders. I hope these are just a few exceptions but I do worry about the longevity of the encoders. Only time will tell :sweat_smile:

#23

It is unfortunately inevitable that things break or have defects regardless of how high quality it might be, but considering the amount of units we have shipped with these new encoders, these posts on the matter is an incredibly small percentage, meaning that the failure rate is very, very low.

(And in the case of a defect or encoders breaking we do have a 3 year warranty)

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#24

No custom DSP or other CPUs in our units. Theoretically you could do that, but it sounds like a pretty big project! :smiley:
Having said that, we try to repair boards down to the component level if things are broken or defective, and are most times successful at doing so.

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#25

I’am woried about a rubberised layer that the new buttons have, like on the digitakt.
I have the 2 items that are nearly 10 years old that are using this rubberised layer on plastic and it started to “melt” on them.
One is microsoft mouse and other is motorcycle helmet.
That tiny rubber layer lost all of it’s properties and as soon as you touch it it glues to your hand, smears. All sort of dust/dirt is getting glued to the surface. After you take the items in your hand part of the layer will stay on your fingers. Totall mess.
I’m really worried that it will be the same on the elektron boxes.
But as I said about 9-10 years time was needed for that rubber layer to go completely bad.

#26

We’ve stress tested them quite extensively and honestly, they’re hard to ruin with a knife. It will be fine. :slight_smile:

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#27

yes, i hope so. Time will tell. I plan to keep my elektron for more than 10 years :smiley:

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#28

Cheers Ess, good to know that in theory people could fix up these devices long beyond their expected lifetime even if Elektron stop servicing :slight_smile: