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Does anyone have any experience with the Tasman V1000 vario?

Very positive experience.

We have two of them, one in a two seater with a repeater -a vintage
Bergfalke, Other in my std Cirrus.

Both have proven to be 100% reliable over 4 years. They get flown on a
very rough field. Vibrations have killed other electronics - so far the
Tasmans just work. The repeater system is useful - it's so nice to KNOW
what the student is seeing on the vario. Unfortunately it is a remote
display, not a remote head - so you can't change settings from the back
seat.

Support is excellent - have a problem, it gets solved over email. We
even ended up installing new firmware because it was cheaper to ship the
chips one way than instruments two ways to Australia. The internal
construction is neat and the upgrade worked as advertised. Original
units had somewhat counterintuitive sink tones - new firmware makes
depressed pacman sounds as you head for the ground.

The built in averager is really useful, and accurate - it agrees with
the logger. In a contest situation I would like more integration with
PDA / flight computer, and Malcolm is apparently making that available.
For a club, or club class single seater it is a decent vario at a good
price.