Lx 1600 vs Borgelt 50

Mike the Strike wrote:
Glen Kelley wrote:
Would anyone with experience flying with both of these varios
please
provide
comments on their views of the two devices? Audio, ease of
adjustment,
accuracy, etc?


An additional point - if you're going to fly anywhere hot, make sure
your instruments are properly temperature rated. I chose Borgelt
instruments (tested under Australian conditions) after a German
flight
computer I owned died in the Arizona heat. Cockpit temperatures can
exceed 50 C when the glider's sitting in the sun prior to takeoff.

We have a number of LX instrument users and they do seem to survive
here too, though.

If you're flying somewhere cold and wet (Britain or Holland, for
example), any European gear will work just fine.

The B 50 is a fine vario and I prefer the analog dial, but polar
adjustment is internal, as noted by others.

Mike

ASW 20 WA

I'm using an LX1600 with twin Colibri's and an iPaq 3630 running Mobile
Seeyou. The LX has no trouble in Spain in the middle of August ( 40
degrees plus in the cockpit on the runway ) contrast of the LCD is
good. The LCD also maintains its response time at -10 degrees in wave
in the UK.

I am a little unhappy with the automatic alert sound level that is
issued by Seeyou and transmitted through the LX1600 speaker system -
sometimes way too loud. I can't get the volume on the vario to stay
audible and have the speed command volume low enough, and this weekend
I battled to get the unit to ignore my flap mounted switch and use the
GPS signal to calculate when I was in a thermal. No doubt I'll sort
things out in a while.

But apart from that this LX is my 3rd LX vario following 2 LX 160's and
I'm a reasonably happy camper.
Ian