JPI EDM700 v EI UBG16 - comments?

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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I have installed the UBG-16 in my Arrow ( with an A&E supervision ). The
folks at EI are great, and answered all my questions. I can't say enough
about the support. I also installed a fuel computer from them. I also
have the data recorder, and often download the data to my computer. With
the EI, I can use whatever software I want to analyze the data, I wrote
my own. I believe the JPI locks you into using there software. On the
downside, the EI is composed of several separate boxes: display unit,
data recorder, manifold pressure interface, fuel flow interface, etc. It
took a lot of work to get all the wires hooked up.

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:51:20 +0000, soxinbox wrote:

I believe the JPI locks you into using there software

I don't believe that this is [still] true. For example, see:

http://www.geocities.com/joshhurtel/

I'm going through the same decision process: which to buy, JPI or EI.

- Andrew