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2/7/2012 6:33 AM
 

Any chance that nice new unit has a capacitive touch screen. I'm buying one anyway but that would just throw me over the moon.

Nice Job Guys!

Bill

 
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2/7/2012 10:31 AM
 

Nope. It's still a pressure-sensitive resistive screen. Can be a little glitchy at times (the calibration on both my old 700 and current 720 seems to drift and require weekly/monthly recalibration), but at least the surface is durable.

If the calibration were not troublesome, I would hands-down prefer a resistive screen to a capacitive one for this application simply because I like the precision when using a stylus (and always have a pen or pencil near to hand in the cockpit). Stylii do not always work with capacitive screens, and my fat fingers aren't the most precise instrument in the world. : )

 
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2/7/2012 12:36 PM
 

Cobra, I'm suprised you are needing to recalibrate your screen so often. We almost never need to recalibrate screens - and I'm talking about units we refurbish, demos, and development boxes that we punish like mad. Now - if your external conditions are changing dramatically this can have a temporary affect on the calibration. IE, if you're using the screen in 30 degrees it might not be as calibrated (but should still be very close)...when it warms up should be fine.

-Walter


Walter Boyd
President, Adventure Pilot
 
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2/7/2012 2:48 PM
 

Well, to be honest, I'm not sure the screen is drifting, but as Hank Hill might say, "There's something not quite right about that screen." : )

The 720 I'm currently using is more stable than my 700 was, but even so, every once in a while I'll tap squarely in the middle of a menu option with my stylus or fingernail, and the menu option above (it's always the one above, never below!) will select instead. I will put up with this behavior for a while, but over time it will appear to become more frequent (perhaps just via perception bias, though...I don't keep a log of the events to analyze it objectively), and eventually it will bug me enough that I'll recalibrate.

I actually ran into that problem several times last night, so I recalibrated again (probably the 4th or 5th time I've done it since getting the unit in November), and the results made me wonder if there was a hardware issue. I carefully targeted the center of each crosshair with my stylus, but despite the care I took, the calibration routine took me "around the screen" 3 times before it was happy and gave me the option to keep or reject the new calibration. Out of all the time I had my 700 and the several times I've recalibrated the 720, that's the first time I've ever seen the tool force me to go around the screen more than once.

I have tried to use the built-in note-taking tool that lets you draw free-form on the screen, just to see how well the lines follow my stylus, but the window available for drawing does not include the edges of the screen were the calibration deviation seems to be the worst, so I really can't get any direct feedback to see how good or bad it's tracking along the edges.

I used to have a similar issue with a Palm V PDA I had back in the day. Kinda figured it was just a characteristic issue with this technology, but if that's not true, then I'd really like to find a solution.

 
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2/7/2012 3:59 PM
 

I would say it sounds like a bad touch screen. But if you have 2 units doing this, makes me wonder if there is an environmental cause of these problems. It really should be a rare thing. Give support a call (Ed), or email support@adventurepilot.com, if you want to swap one or both of these out. The 720 of course is still under warranty - not sure how long you've owned the 700 but if 1 year-ish we can replace that too.

Thanks,
Walter


Walter Boyd
President, Adventure Pilot
 
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