I agree completely on never installing something from the big 4. There's a reason equipment is always modded away from their equipment. I always see big 4 equipment being modded to any of the non proprietary equipment. I never see a job that was a canton or similar that was modded to a Tac20 or Ecospace controller.
I once heard from a high up guy at a large independent company who only installed Vertical express, that it was normal for a couple boards to go bad in the first year on all of them and after that the "bugs were worked out". Blew my mind he's sitting there defeding the inexcusable lack of reliability. My thought process was I would've put up with that for 6 months and never installed another. I'm used to installing non proprietary equipment that darn near simply doesn't have breakdowns due to the controller.
