Decided on a Ranger 2995 DX!!!

[Butcher318]

Booty, if you check out his list of goodys he has a 2990 with 2879's in it. Why that needs to be done is beyond me but I'll just stop there. I bet 4 swinging 200 looks great on a scope.

Think about it like this, It sounds like Carl runs a cb shop to me. If he tunes say 100 RCI 2995's in a year he only wants 3 or less to come back not working. You start jacking them way out and guess what, now he gets 30-40 upset customers back with blown radio's. If he says don't over do it there is a good reason.

Observation, if a power supply has a tough time keeping up with 2290's in these radio's you won't help things by swapping in 2879's so don't do it.

 

[Unit 194]

RCI makes a nice radio, but do you actually expect them to admit a problem in the power supply side? You bet now they will tell you ALL those problems have been solved, thats a no brainer. I hope they do have it fixed because that ended up being a serious problem for shops all across the country sending back radio's. Several years ago they stopped selling the 2990 and 2995 for several months so they could fix the issues.

Excellent point !!!!!!!!!!

 

[lords]

ReEdited by lords because Butcher318 can't read a post right and it just aint worth putting the fire out for!!! thank god i do know a lot of companys on a personal matter

Booty, if you check out his list of goodys he has a 2990 with 2879's in it. Why that needs to be done is beyond me but I'll just stop there. I bet 4 swinging 200 looks great on a scope.
reread dude!

QUOTE from ME...
hell the main thing i like is the killer power supply and the main board is you can update it to dual finals(which i won't as the 2290's get what they need safely for drive and if i do it 2879's all the way with IRF520's driving them

that means that the powersupply has been updated and so has the 2995DX ..you forgot the DX..also the receive and the main board being mounted unstable and cracking in shipping thats only a few of the many updates... it is the updated BETTER verson of the 2990.... so before you going posting misinformation...think you might learn something besides being a fast poster.....
unless I see what you can do you really don't have any helpfull info DuDe....

in the end RCI still rocks all over the world and proves it...look at all the radios with RCI boards.....stick that in your scope...

 

[lords]

lords am i reading correctly that youre dead keying 4 watts swinging to 200 watts with that swing kit ? :shock:

I said it is capable of doing that...I didn't say I was doing that...
right?

 

[Gearhead]

For anyone with power supply/regulator problems with the 2990s, saturn turbos, etc, there is a new fix for it. It's a modular power supply, similar to what's in the 2995. Easy for anyone to install, and under $200. Not sure if it's actually on the market yet, but I saw it in person with my own eyes.
My 2990 is peaked, and blew up the supply twice, now I run external supply. My saturn turbo is stock and blew up the supply once, got it fixed, so far, no problems...yet, but keeping it stock...it just sounds too good to mess with.