REFLECTOR:Balancer

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In a message dated 6/7/03 6:45:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
wamowens@bellsouth.net writes:

<< One  mechanic at my field gets $250.
 Get your EAA chapter to buy a $900 balancer from Norm
 Seranno.vibetech@bellsouth.net <vibetech@bellsouth.net>
  >>
I got my balancer with the "big purchase" late last year and have yet to get 
a reliable readout from it.  It looses it's lock on the RPM above 1300.  I 
went so far as to make brackets for the optical sensor for both my Velocity and 
C-172 with no luck.  It has been back twice to Vibetech with no change.  
Vibetec says it checks out fine on the bench.  It also eats a battery if I leave it 
installed for a couple weeks, even though it goes to sleep after 3 minuets.  
This is not right.  I even sent JPEG photos of my installation and the brackets 
I made.  Norman said the installation is far superior than necessary.  They 
are reluctant to replace it with a different unit.  So far, it has been a waste 
of $900 bucks and a lot of my time(far more than $900 at my rate;-).  I have 
tried it on 4 different aircraft, twice.

TEC.