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longg(at)pjm.com
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject: Vertical Power transcends on Z-19

Bob,

	Just wanted to get your opinion of the integration of Z-19 and

Vertical Powers' V-200 unit. I believe they are charging about 10k for

that package. Do you feel there is enough valued added integrity there

to substantiate that investment? It seems to me that Z-19 already has

enough robustness built into the design. VP does perform some fancy

automation stuff, but that becomes personal rather an integral to the

system. I will be using an external EIS 4000 which is married to the

Subaru and provides all necessary engine parameters. The V-200 supports

just a few of the Subaru engine functions at this time - more planned

for 2008.

http://www.verticalpower.com/docs/VP_Z-19.pdf

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nuckollsr(at)cox.net
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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:18 pm Post subject: Vertical Power transcends on Z-19

At 10:18 PM 8/8/2007 -0400, you wrote:



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Bob,

         Just wanted to get your opinion of the integration of Z-19 and

Vertical Powers' V-200 unit. I believe they are charging about 10k for

that package. Do you feel there is enough valued added integrity there

to substantiate that investment? It seems to me that Z-19 already has

enough robustness built into the design. VP does perform some fancy

automation stuff, but that becomes personal rather an integral to the

system. I will be using an external EIS 4000 which is married to the

Subaru and provides all necessary engine parameters. The V-200 supports

just a few of the Subaru engine functions at this time - more planned

for 2008.


	


   Return on investment is a decision you'll have to

   make. What are your proposed design goals for

   incorporating the system? Are you wanting to save

   time? How would the time "saved" be put to better

   use in the conduct of your flight? What's the

   cost of ownership? Is there risk that you'll spend

   more money over your ownership of the airplane such

   that you're going to come out money ahead for

   compared to not having incorporated the system?



   I have no doubts that the product performs as

   advertised (or will if any bugs are detected).

   The questions to be asked and answered have to

   be based on perception of performance or hazard

   shortfall for not having used this system to replace the

   traditional hardware and techniques.



        Bob . . .



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        ( give some practical results, but     )

        ( that's not why we do it."            )

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aadamson(at)highrf.com
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:16 am Post subject: Vertical Power transcends on Z-19

For the sake of complete disclosure, there are multiple versions of the

Vertical Power product.  The 10K version is slated primarily for a dual

buss, dual alternator environment.  There are also other versions for $6495

and 3495 as well.  These are slated for less complex environments and also

have differing feature sets.  Here's a very complete version of the 2 major

product lines, the VP-200 comes in a single Control Unit and Dual Control

unit version (the latter is the 10K priced version).



http://www.verticalpower.com/features.html



Hope this helps further, I should have mine flying in the next couple of

months and I just can't wait.  I know it's hard to think about it as

something different than just a wiring solution, but there is so much more

capability to the product, it really is better positioned as a Smart

Aircraft Management system.... But I'll let you all make your own

decision...



Btw, I'm doing a VP-200 Duo in a 24v dual alt, dual batt system.



Alan



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