I like to give credit where credit is due. And in this case, the guys at Fluxeon did really good by me.
I was an early adopter of the Annie annealer. It had a serial number in the low 100's. Well, I used it over the years in fairly small amounts and it worked fine. That is, until recently. I had heard stories of these things burning out, and finally after a batch of 50 6.5cm more quickly in a row, mine stopped working. I had even purchased their water heat exchanger to help prevent this problem.
I contacted them about warranty vs repair. Well, they covered it 100%! It did take some time. They got affected pretty badly early by Chinese export problems.
Apparently over the years they improved it quite a bit. They said the new one I got has a larger capacity transformer, a new temperature actuated cooling fan with changes in the box for air flow, and some different heat protection circuitry. They also went ahead and sent me new coils, and a new heat exchanger! Both of these had improved quality over the ones I had from long ago.
So now this product seems much more robust. I'm really pleased with it for what it now offers. I tested it with a batch for 200 308 lapua, and the cooling fan did spin up. But this was much more than what I did to it when it burnt out. But the annealing was perfect and really quick. Just over 2 seconds annealing time each. That's what I was always wanting with this machine.
tl:dr - Fluxeon guys did good on warranty of old unit which is now a much improved design. So far so good!
I was an early adopter of the Annie annealer. It had a serial number in the low 100's. Well, I used it over the years in fairly small amounts and it worked fine. That is, until recently. I had heard stories of these things burning out, and finally after a batch of 50 6.5cm more quickly in a row, mine stopped working. I had even purchased their water heat exchanger to help prevent this problem.
I contacted them about warranty vs repair. Well, they covered it 100%! It did take some time. They got affected pretty badly early by Chinese export problems.
Apparently over the years they improved it quite a bit. They said the new one I got has a larger capacity transformer, a new temperature actuated cooling fan with changes in the box for air flow, and some different heat protection circuitry. They also went ahead and sent me new coils, and a new heat exchanger! Both of these had improved quality over the ones I had from long ago.
So now this product seems much more robust. I'm really pleased with it for what it now offers. I tested it with a batch for 200 308 lapua, and the cooling fan did spin up. But this was much more than what I did to it when it burnt out. But the annealing was perfect and really quick. Just over 2 seconds annealing time each. That's what I was always wanting with this machine.
tl:dr - Fluxeon guys did good on warranty of old unit which is now a much improved design. So far so good!
