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Originally Posted by Si Coe
Except quite a lot of the MRT's in use are cloned from the same owners AMB. Thats a feature AMB did not offer (until Percy) so if you wanted multiple PT's on the same number MRT wasn't the 'copy' but the only option.
Of those who had the AMB's cloned, some now only run the MRT clone, the AMB having long since died since unlike the AMB's you can have the refitted with new leads etc.
MRT's aren't just copies - they offered things AMB did not.
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Sorry Si for not making myself clear. MRTs are not cloned from AMBs. They are copies able to deal with the AMB signalling system that are programmed with a number you give them. As it happens, MRT did what AMB did not - allowed repairs and changes of wire, made them more reliable, and allowed you to have more than one with the same number.
The fact remains that the system of signalling was developed at their expense by AMB and copied by MRT. In that respect we MRT users can expect no allowance from AMB when they update their product, we just have to suck up whatever the situation is.
One thing I can't get away from - as a new product launch designed to attract people to upgrade their lap-counting and spend some money with AMB, this ranks alongside 'new' Coke and Toyota accelerator pedals as a PR disaster!
Like Matt, I'll wait and see....