Selway wrote:Thanks! I actually already bought the unit.... just wondering if a quote if 50-60 hours to install is reasonable... it seems a bit high, but it’s a shop that I’ve worked with and was very happy with their work.

Stolhunter wrote:I have one in a 182 RG and one in a Husky. I love them but you will have a cylinder show bad readings. Both of mine have one that needs work. I assume its connections. Those are really pretty poor. But I love the monitors. Just have to stay on top of them a little. I would buy them again

Helio295 wrote:I just installed the 30P/30C combo in my plane along with a pretty complete firewall forward. With everything taken apart in the front the install was pretty easy and straight forward. A few extra boxes for this and that but nothing too absurd. No idea how many hours it all was but I am guessing it was under 40. And now that it is installed, I really like the set up. I wish I had arranged the screens a little differently, but I still like it a lot.

Two big down sides are the connectors and the egt probes. On the first flight an egt probe went out. We checked the connector and it appeared fine so we tightened the set screw a little more and hoped for the best. Second flight the probe worked better but still very chattery, and a second probe went out. Replaced both those connectors with standard knife connectors. Third flight things improved a little on those two probes but still not correct and a third probe went out.

Checked resistance across the three failed probes. Two read 0/infinite the third read 6 ohms. Ei says less than 5. Ei would not send me new probes on warranty, I needed to send mine in have them tested and if they were bad I would et new probes....a week or longer wait on a brand new product, effectively grounding the plane. My local avionics shop sensing my frustration gave me thee new probes and said they would charge me only if my old probes didn't meet warranty at ei. New probes connected with knife connectors seem to work great.

Long and short of it... The CGR 30 is awesome, great screen, features, and the round shape looks great in the panel. Probes/connectors are apparently hit or miss. Three failed probes in three hours of flight is a little excessive. Especially since ei wasnt really accommodating on getting me back in the air quickly. A solid product, that I would probably buy again. But would buy it from a local shop with excellent customer service to assist I'm case of premature probe failure.

Hopefully the new probes and the three old (4 hours time in service) probes have a good long life. If they do I will be quite happy with my purchases in the long run.

mtv wrote:Actually, that report does not speak well about either the quality of the product or the company's product support.

I'd be pretty pissed if I had three probes fail.....in the first few hundred hours. I've used a lot of JPI stuff, and only failure was a fuel flow transducer. That after 500 hours in service. Called JPI and received replacement in the mail in three days. No charge.

MTV

1:1 Scale wrote:Does the 30C combo just add another screen so more data is displayed, or are there extra features available in the second display that aren't in the single 30P?