LX Era 80 vs S80/S100

I've been seeing some pilots prefer the Borgelt variometers as well, how would the modern ones (B600/B800/dynamis) compare to the modern LX variometers?

I have a B800, and I’m very happy with it, only the vario, no GCD or Borgelt GPS, just use flight computer to set mcready and ballast.
Dynamis certainly sounds great, but at over $5000 aud + extra on top of the B800, It is very costly.
The basic B800 was much cheaper than the LXs, both kinds.
I’m wondering the same question, looking at an S80 that is for sale here.

I have a B800, though just the vario, without the Borgelt GPS, GCD and Dynamis. I control the settings on the B800 via the flight computer, bugs, ballast and Mcready,
Dynamis sounds great, but at $5000aud + is not cheap, maybe one day.
I’ve been wondering the same thing myself, though my recent flights with the new B800 have been satisfyingly fast, so there’s that.

On Sun, 03 Nov 2019 23:33:54 -0800, Senna Van den Bosch wrote:

I've been seeing some pilots prefer the Borgelt variometers as well, how
would the modern ones (B600/B800/dynamis) compare to the modern LX
variometers?

Most of the LX units I've seen strike me as cramming too much information
into the centre of the display, but of course ymmv.

Currently I'm very happy with an SDI C4 (with cruise/climb switching
controlled by airspeed) and a 3.5" PNA running LK8000 (3.5" because of
panel size limitation) and a Borgelt B.40 as secondary vario.

Back when I used a Garmin GPS II for navigation I had that connected to
the C4, which let it calculate arrival heights etc. That doesn't work now
because the PNA/LK8000 doesn't have a suitable data out connection and,
even if it did, it doesn't output the GPS sentences the C4 needs. So, I'm
considering using a port of LK8000 to a Raspberry Pi with a touch screen
and writing a custom module to generate the data feed to the C4.


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Martin | martin at
Gregorie | gregorie dot org

On Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 1:25:06 PM UTC+1, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Sun, 03 Nov 2019 23:33:54 -0800, Senna Van den Bosch wrote:

I've been seeing some pilots prefer the Borgelt variometers as well, how
would the modern ones (B600/B800/dynamis) compare to the modern LX
variometers?

Most of the LX units I've seen strike me as cramming too much information
into the centre of the display, but of course ymmv.

Currently I'm very happy with an SDI C4 (with cruise/climb switching
controlled by airspeed) and a 3.5" PNA running LK8000 (3.5" because of
panel size limitation) and a Borgelt B.40 as secondary vario.

Back when I used a Garmin GPS II for navigation I had that connected to
the C4, which let it calculate arrival heights etc. That doesn't work now
because the PNA/LK8000 doesn't have a suitable data out connection and,
even if it did, it doesn't output the GPS sentences the C4 needs. So, I'm
considering using a port of LK8000 to a Raspberry Pi with a touch screen
and writing a custom module to generate the data feed to the C4.


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Martin | martin at
Gregorie | gregorie dot org

Hi Martin,

you can adjust the layout as you wish. You can have only one NAVBOX and no other data. At LXNAV we indeed have many options and many information, but the most important is that you can totally adjust the screen as you wish.

More you can read he
https://gliding.lxnav.com/wp-content...er710rev29.pdf

page: 25

Best regards, Toni