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Originally Posted by skiv
Thanks for the quote, and as the SiCoe suggested I was talking about the Purcy not being backward compatible, where when we last switched systems the new transponders did work with the old system although only the last digit of the number was recognised.
So not really any hearsay going on there, the facts were read understood and quoted.
The facts still are that the RC4 system will only fully work with the purcy, but a club that switches to RC4 will still be able to count all amb/mylaps transponders, and probably mrt too, but we wont know until it is tested, as said before could be scaremongering. BUT a driver who buys a purcy will have to check the list of no clubs (at the moment) before their laps will count.
I was just suggesting what might have been a better use of the purcy only needing to stock one transponder and it would count everywhere.
As said above, we just have to wait and see what happens, but at the moment no club i know is going to upgrade their firmware.
Sounds like good news that we don't have to send the box to BBK for firmware upgrade though, if/when we want it.
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So I have a PSone and a PS2, do I expect PS3 games to work in them, does anyone
I have a Hobbywing V2.1 ESC and a HW V3 ESC can I run V3 firmware on my V2.1? No because the V3 has more memory in the chip.
Technology moves on and cannot always be backwards compatabile.
It always amazes me how everyone moans when they might have to spend some money on an item that will help the club they run at. The difficulty in getting drivers to part with a small amount for their club membership always amazes me, yet the same people will think nothing in spending ££££££'s on new motors or batteries or tyres etc. BBK will upgrade your MRT transponder to a mylaps one for a little over £40 - not bad.
As for the cost of the new decoder, bear this in mind if your current AMBrc decoder stops working the replacement cost to the club will be £2,400 (for an RC3 or RC4 decoder) or you could upgrade now for £415 and get a 3 year warranty.
How many clubs can afford £2,400? how many can afford £415?
I hope MRT will be able to come up with a solution, but until the new decoder is available and tested who knows whether they will work or not or whether they ever can be made to work