[rachelholladay]

Well this is fairly exciting. I must confess that I would like to do a three way comparison of Victor vs Jaguar vs Talon. Last season we had issues with our gun for a while and were able to track that in part to what seemed to be the non-linear-ness of a Jaguar. We ended up swapping it for a Victor, which greatly improved the situation. Based on the supplied charts from the User Manual, the Talon seems to have pretty good linearity. That would certainly be an interesting series of tests for Beta Testing. (I am also wondering if the David Relay will be coming back for more testing, it was a neat little box of fun)

Although a rather minor point, I really like the lights feature, "The rate at which the led blinks is proportional to the percent throttle. The faster the LED blinks the closer the output is to 100% in either polarity." From the Jags and Victors I am very reliant on the color change for basic testing and while the blinking will probably serve more as a qualitative measure, it seems like a neat feature to have. (Although I'm sure that if I work with the Talon, a month later I'll have stared at blinking lights enough to go a little crazy).

I am a little surprised that there seems to be no CAN support, especially since this comes from Cross the Road Electronics, a vendor that supplies not only a lot of CAN equipment but 2CAN as well. There would have to be a major change in hardware to accommodate it, so I guess we should not be expecting CAN + Talon any time soon.

Looking ahead for the season my two logistics questions would be: what will come in the Kit (Rookie and Veteran)? If AndyMark is not selling Jaguars, who will?