rvmills
Well Known Member
Mark Scheuer and the gang over at PS Engineering launched a new Audio Panel tonight, the PAR100EX. This unit combines an audio panel/intercom with a radio control head and a remote mounted radio, along with Bluetooth capability! It looks like this could be a game changer in the awesome parade of panel goodies we in the experimental aircraft community are being treated to, and it looks to add a unique choice to experimental builders designing or re-doing their panels!
It can be seen on their website here. Here is a picture from that site:
From reading the literature, it looks like the PAR100EX incorporates the following:
- 4 place stereo intercom with Intellivox
- 2 switched transceiver inputs (COMM 1/2)
- 2 switched aux audio inputs (receive only)
- 4 unswitched audio inputs
- Bluetooth capability as seen in the PMA9000EX
Slide-in replacement for a PMA8000, GMA-340 or GMA-240. Remote radio is a Microair 4"x4"X2" unit. Looks like a neat option for a second radio with some real savings in panel real estate. An IFR RV with a 430W as COMM1 could use this instead of another audio panel and a second radio (if they did not want VHF NAV from that radio...ILS/LOC), or a VFR RV could replace an audio panel and a second radio. In either case, this one box replaces 2, and could potentially give panel designers some pretty cool options! With so many integrated EFIS radios out or on the horizon, it may offer even more panel layout options. At an MSRP of $2595, it seems pretty competetive as well (with the multiple items it replaces).
I'm bettin' it'll be at Sun N Fun!
I've just been workin' the COMM2 install plan lately, and man, just when I thought I had studied it all up, and had a plan figured out, this kinda stuff happens!
Still working on how I can get a second aviation radio in the tight panel for formation lead work, and salvage a SAR aux radio capability (still workin' it!), but its pretty cool to have so many choices (and to have guys like Mark from PS, Rainier from MGL, Matt from Garmin and Stein as contributors!).
Its good to be experimental, eh!![Big grin :D :D](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Cheers,
Bob
It can be seen on their website here. Here is a picture from that site:
![PAR100EX.jpg](/community/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Flh6.googleusercontent.com%2F_YJjY_iLdt5M%2FTYloOfl7QvI%2FAAAAAAAAAEw%2FDw9ieZJ6AkM%2Fs640%2FPAR100EX.jpg&hash=21cb74eec28e5ecb769089a719d36c26)
From reading the literature, it looks like the PAR100EX incorporates the following:
- 4 place stereo intercom with Intellivox
- 2 switched transceiver inputs (COMM 1/2)
- 2 switched aux audio inputs (receive only)
- 4 unswitched audio inputs
- Bluetooth capability as seen in the PMA9000EX
Slide-in replacement for a PMA8000, GMA-340 or GMA-240. Remote radio is a Microair 4"x4"X2" unit. Looks like a neat option for a second radio with some real savings in panel real estate. An IFR RV with a 430W as COMM1 could use this instead of another audio panel and a second radio (if they did not want VHF NAV from that radio...ILS/LOC), or a VFR RV could replace an audio panel and a second radio. In either case, this one box replaces 2, and could potentially give panel designers some pretty cool options! With so many integrated EFIS radios out or on the horizon, it may offer even more panel layout options. At an MSRP of $2595, it seems pretty competetive as well (with the multiple items it replaces).
I'm bettin' it'll be at Sun N Fun!
I've just been workin' the COMM2 install plan lately, and man, just when I thought I had studied it all up, and had a plan figured out, this kinda stuff happens!
Its good to be experimental, eh!
Cheers,
Bob
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