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24th October 2011
More praise for the B700:
One customer was having TE compensation issues with the B700 in his Nimbus 2b. He asked one of his club’s leading cross country pilots to fly it and he confirmed the problem. They then isolated the old Winter mechanical vario and its plumbing and flew again. Both are now extremely happy. The leading cross country pilot came down with a big grin and likes the B700 very much.
Note that compensation isn’t a variometer problem as such. The vario will respond to the pressure it sees from the plumbing to the probe. In this case there were likely leaks in the plumbing to the old vario or the vario itself or perhaps some interaction due to the flow going through the old vario to and from the flask.
It really is time that leak and interaction prone varios using flasks were consigned to museums. The B700 has a standby power pack (4 x AA alkaline batteries) good for 8 hours or so. You will not be without a variometer in the event of a glider power failure(which itself should be rare with two batteries and correct design and operation). You might like to consider how well you are going to operate without electronic variometers, radio, transponder, Flarm and flight recorders anyway.
Don’t forget – you get the same great vario performance in the B800 and lots more!
The latest version of the B800 manual is now up. To better accommodate operation with the Oudie a couple of small changes were made to the software. Serial data output and input is now at 38400 baud and the PDA_PS and Oudie Interface module now operate at this speed. Any Flight Recorders and Flarms connected to the system should be set to output at 38400 baud also.
We made a small change to the GCD to make the third page(formerly a “setup” page) one of the operational flight pages. These three pages are cycled through with a momentary button press. The remaining pages should not need to be accessed in flight.
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More praise for the B700:
One customer was having TE compensation issues with the B700 in his Nimbus 2b. He asked one of his club’s leading cross country pilots to fly it and he confirmed the problem. They then isolated the old Winter mechanical vario and its plumbing and flew again. Both are now extremely happy. The leading cross country pilot came down with a big grin and likes the B700 very much.
Note that compensation isn’t a variometer problem as such. The vario will respond to the pressure it sees from the plumbing to the probe. In this case there were likely leaks in the plumbing to the old vario or the vario itself or perhaps some interaction due to the flow going through the old vario to and from the flask.
It really is time that leak and interaction prone varios using flasks were consigned to museums. The B700 has a standby power pack (4 x AA alkaline batteries) good for 8 hours or so. You will not be without a variometer in the event of a glider power failure(which itself should be rare with two batteries and correct design and operation). You might like to consider how well you are going to operate without electronic variometers, radio, transponder, Flarm and flight recorders anyway.
Don’t forget – you get the same great vario performance in the B800 and lots more!
The latest version of the B800 manual is now up. To better accommodate operation with the Oudie a couple of small changes were made to the software. Serial data output and input is now at 38400 baud and the PDA_PS and Oudie Interface module now operate at this speed. Any Flight Recorders and Flarms connected to the system should be set to output at 38400 baud also.
We made a small change to the GCD to make the third page(formerly a “setup” page) one of the operational flight pages. These three pages are cycled through with a momentary button press. The remaining pages should not need to be accessed in flight.