JPI EDM700 v EI UBG16 - comments?

Hey guys,
I am a fim believer in the edm 700 I have used it in about 4 airplanes
(182 210 421 barron) I find it easy to use and highly reliable. I wish
that I could give you some info on the EI product but I just have no
experience with it. As a professional pilot I fly nearly every day and
I am sure glad to have this piece of equipmet to tell me what my engine
is doing. It really allows you to precisely operate your engine. I also
have fuel flow on the 210 that is the main bird right now and I love
it. It has been truly accurate down to within about 1-3 gallons per
trip. Wish your bussy good flying with whatever he chooses!
matt tiberii
Com CFI CFII
ASEL ASES AMEL


Peter wrote:
Hi

A colleague (who is not on the internet) is looking at one or the
other, for his 4-seat IFR tourer.

I personally have an EDM700 and after an initial replacement when new
(buggy firmware, could not download data to a PC) it has been working
fine. I am not impressed with the probes; I've had two fail in 4
years.

The EDM data download feature is dreadful; often I get corrupted
downloads which need to be emailed to JPI and then I have to hassle
them to get around to retrieving the data. This tends to result from
the data queue having overflowed, but obviously one should still be
able to retrieve data on *complete* flights.

On paper, the EI version looks a lot better, but I have never met
anybody who has one. They claim more rugged probes in particular.

Any views would be much appreciated.

As an aside, wasn't there a big lawsuit in this department, some years
ago?

Peter.
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