Can a Tait portable survive a six-minute car wash?

An essential requirement of any public-safety-grade portable radio, especially for fire and emergency response teams, is that the radio should work — even in wet conditions. While military standards require the radio to work after being immersed in water to a depth of 3.28 feet (one meter) for 30 minutes, Tait tests it at double that depth, and ensures it remains water-tight and functions perfectly. The bottom line? Tait radios exceed military-grade durability.

Over the last few weeks, we’ve put the Tait TP9400... Continue Reading

Can a Tait portable survive a 24mph (40km/h) bowling-ball smash?

It started out rather innocently. We were thinking about fun ways to test the TP9400 — throwing a ton of rubber bouncy balls at it, aiming a tennis ball shooter at it, taping it to a rugby ball, and so on. However, we weren’t satisfied with just fun. We yearned for a challenge. We needed a tougher test, a really tough test — to see if we couldn’t destroy the radio in the process.

We wanted a challenge. We wanted suspense. We wanted impact. We wanted to smash it!

So, naturally, we came up with... Continue Reading

Can a Tait radio survive a 100-yard catapult launch?
By Evan Forester, Tait Tough Tester

I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, a city with very hot summers. One of our favorite ways to escape the heat was to have a water balloon fight. Every once in a while, some kids would show up with a three-person catapult that could launch balloons the length of an entire field, making them instant legends of summer.

I’m not sure why, but when we started to create the Tait Tough videos, my mind naturally returned to those three-person catapults. A part of me wanted to see how far we could make a Tait portable fly. More importantly, I wanted to see if it could survive the test. Continue Reading

Can a Tait portable survive a heavyweight boxing bout?

We all know technology can be frustrating sometimes. You accidentally turn things off or press the wrong button or it just doesn’t do what you want it to.

While we don’t think you’ll ever get so frustrated by our TP9400 portable radio that you’ll want to punch it (because it’s been designed with a high level of intuitive usability) we reckoned that matching it up to a heavyweight boxer would be a great “real life” way to test just how tough it is.

TP9400 vs. boxer: who wins? Continue Reading