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Blew $400 on a fancy remote control for my crawler crane and it died after 3 weeks
I bought one of those aftermarket wireless remote kits for my Grove RT at a trade show down in Houston. It worked great for the first two weeks, felt solid in my hands and had good range. Then last Tuesday the display started flickering and now it just won't pair at all. The company won't answer my emails and I can't find a repair shop that'll touch it. Anyone else had bad luck with those cheaper third party controllers?
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taylorcarr14d ago
Yeah man that sucks big time. @nora10 I get what you're saying about OEM but sometimes you just gotta try something else when the price gap is that huge. The real problem nobody's talking about is how these aftermarket companies use totally different frequency bands and encryption protocols that don't play nice with the built-in receiver on older cranes. Your Grove RT probably has a specific handshake routine that the cheap unit just can't replicate correctly. I've seen a few guys at the yard swap out their OEM controller and end up messing up the entire wiring harness because the pinouts don't match. It's not just about quality control, it's about the fact that these third party guys don't have access to the proper schematics so they're basically guessing.
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