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Warranty on any VPX is from the date of purchase, whether from the old Vertical Power company, or from Ballard Technology. Nothing new or out of the ordinary here. However, I am very interested in Alex's questions at the end of his post, specifically hours flown. Cheers, |
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The hours flown in aircraft as of today 5.2. I did have a fellow builder stop by and he has flown over 200 hours using VPX and has no problems. Mine was definitely defective from the beginning but I could not recognize the problem. I kept thinking that it was the potentiometer (sends flap position info back to VPX) causing the problem so I kept adjusting the position on the VPX, eventually damaging the unit.
At the end the company came about and issued credit for $350. For future builders you can get the wiring kit first, run all your wires and then buy the VPX. This way it would be under warranty on your first flight. Received the unit today can't wait to install and fly the plane. As far as support from the company, I can't say more about Chad, he is a super guy and offers outstanding support.:) |
Thank you Alex! I'm really happy with the outcome, and I appreciate the feedback!
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I would never give up my CB's to put this stuff, it is expensive, unreliable! We are flying nice and simple machines, keep it simple.
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I wonder if Ballard would be interested in releasing the software source code for the VP units under a GPL license. It sure would be nice for the community to be able to support itself on the software side.
They could even release the schematics for the boards under an open source license and let us get our own boards made (or even modified!) so we can keep the systems flying. |
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