What are the probabilities for one of those to go bad? It has no moving part and I believe it uses a Hall effect to signal to the EZL, is that correct?

Not sure on that, but it seems they do go bad when they are older. Not so much from "wear" as the degradation of the wire and connections. After 20 years they seem to just fall apart.

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