12
I was dead wrong about those budget machine room controllers
For years I told anyone who would listen that spending less than $800 on a machine room controller was asking for trouble. I had a bad experience with a cheap one back in 2018 on a job in Cleveland that failed after 6 months. But last spring I needed a quick replacement for a stuck unit in a small apartment building and grabbed a unit from a brand I won't name for $350. It has been running smooth for 10 months now with zero issues. Has anyone else had a cheap controller surprise them in a good way?
2 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In2 Comments
fiona_lane22d agoMost Upvoted
I was out in Denver last month and told a guy exactly this over coffee, and now I feel like a total clown. My $300 controller is still humming along like a champ while his fancy brand name unit needed a firmware update three times already. Sure, ten months is not a decade but my old expensive unit failed at month eight so what's the difference really. Maybe we all just got lucky or maybe the cheap ones finally caught up.
9