The EW microRecorder is designed to either run from the glider battery,
or from its own internal battery, which gives up to 100 hours of recording.

The advantage of running it from the glider battery is that it will
switch on as soon as the glider battery is connected, although recording
only starts after movemnet is detected. If the glider battery should
fail, then the microRecorder automatically switches over to its internal
battery and recording continues. However at the end of the flight, when
the glider battery is removed, the microReorder would then carry on
recording on its own battery until manually switched off. Hence
forgetting to switch off would lead to a very large file. For this
reason it has an Auto-Off facility, which detects that the glider has
not moved for a period of time adjustable between 6 and 90 minutes.

When running the microRecorder only on its own battery we would
reccomend that the auto-Off facility is either disabled, or the time
period is set to 90 mins

I hope this helps.

Regards
Graham Paul
http://www.ewavionics.com


Glider Pilot Network wrote:

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Newsgroup: rec.aviation.soaring
Subject: Logger Choice
Author: Soaringxcellence
Date/Time: 04:30 06 July 2007
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On Jul 5, 2:37 pm, "Paul Remde" wrote:


Hi Jamie,

For my 2 cents, please see the following web site.

http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/flightrecorders.htm

I'm flying with an EW connected to an iPAQ hx4700 and with the Pocket


PC


powered with a Socket Mobile Power Pack (as shown on the web site).

Good Soaring,

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.http://www.cumulus-soaring.com

"Jamie Denton" wrote in
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Hi all,
I'm looking to purchase a logger for personal use
and I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations?
It won't be fitted to any single glider (I fly club
gliders mainly), so being a self contained unit (inc.
power) is essential. For me the things I care about
a
*IGC approval (I do fly comps so this is important)
*Battery life and Memory
*Reliability
*Integration with PDA (I use XCSoar)
*Price
*Ease of use


Things I'm not too worried about
*Integration with other equipment (Lnavs/Flarm etc)
*Provided navigation info


At the moment I'm torn between a Collibri V4 and an
EW Microrecorder, has anyone any thoughts?


TIA


Jamie



For the less technically adept the EW is the hands down winner.

We have one at the contest in Ephrata this week and the pilot is
usually asking for help to get his logs. He's doing just fine and no
need for a laptop at the glider.

The only possible negative it the "sleep" time. He lost a log on
Sunday (practice day) because he turned on the logger and didn't check
it at take off. Because of the long launch delay, the logger has
timed out and was off for the flight. Fortunately it was on the
practice day and since he has been careful to only turn the logger on
as he gets into the glider.

Mike


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