PowerBox Systems Weatronic Merged
03-19-2016, 09:08 AM
#26
Hi David, I have always been a fan of weatronics but due to lack of info and not many people here in the states using them I held off, butt over the years I have continued to research their radios and even played with them at the events here. I have been with futaba for about 25 years and was planning to give the bat60 a try. Like anyone would do I just decided to hold off until I found out if the company was going to stay around. I totally agree that PB and weatronics joining is a great thing, both are proven products and I'm excited to see what comes in the future. Sorry if I took your post wrong.
03-19-2016, 02:31 PM
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I hope this announcement will now stop all the knockers that have said that weatronic have gone ?, what other radio offers the same spec as this system I.E gizmo receivers no other components to buy its all there (gyro...voltage regulators ect ect ect)
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03-20-2016, 02:48 AM
#30
Will be handy using the Bluetooth that you can have in the Bat60/64 to update software directly in the PowerBoxes!
Dohhh! Just brought a Bluetooth update module off Paul at Nexus and then I thought of this!
Alan
Dohhh! Just brought a Bluetooth update module off Paul at Nexus and then I thought of this!
Alan
03-20-2016, 03:05 PM
#31
This is Good news.
I have been using the DV3/4 system for over 5 years. Like so many Wea users, I love the equipment, and the software that drives it.. When you have set up a model using Giga-control, it is hard to go back to a conventional system.
What has been frustrating is the seemingly indifference that Wea shows over basic issues, like the current lack of Gyro software, or the old English voice file chestnut.
This merger has great promise.. Looking forward to what happens..
I have been using the DV3/4 system for over 5 years. Like so many Wea users, I love the equipment, and the software that drives it.. When you have set up a model using Giga-control, it is hard to go back to a conventional system.
What has been frustrating is the seemingly indifference that Wea shows over basic issues, like the current lack of Gyro software, or the old English voice file chestnut.
This merger has great promise.. Looking forward to what happens..
04-13-2016, 05:52 AM
#32
Thngs might not be going quite as well as many thought...
“The German electronics producer PowerBox-Systems GmbH located in Donauwörth has taken over the insolvent weatronic GmbH per 04/01/2016. This message was put in this acquisition great expectations by the media and many modelers. Decisive for the commitment weatronic was an extension of the existing product range with a high quality remote control system.
After buying the weatronic GmbH at the reporting date 04.01.2016 were electronics and the management of PowerBox Systems in Berlin - Wildau and procured better insight into the technical and economic backgrounds of the company. After extensive screening of the stock and intensive discussions with employees of weatronic we came to the conclusion that a continuation of the weatronic products without major revisions of entire structures is not seamlessly possible.
PowerBox system is therefore as soon as possible to revise the entire product range. Understandably, an accurate timing of a restart is not be called.
For organizational and liability reasons no service for weatronic products will take place more. An external partner who sells the still stored original weatronic receivers and accessories, is still being sought.
PowerBox Systems regrets this necessary decision deeply.”
After buying the weatronic GmbH at the reporting date 04.01.2016 were electronics and the management of PowerBox Systems in Berlin - Wildau and procured better insight into the technical and economic backgrounds of the company. After extensive screening of the stock and intensive discussions with employees of weatronic we came to the conclusion that a continuation of the weatronic products without major revisions of entire structures is not seamlessly possible.
PowerBox system is therefore as soon as possible to revise the entire product range. Understandably, an accurate timing of a restart is not be called.
For organizational and liability reasons no service for weatronic products will take place more. An external partner who sells the still stored original weatronic receivers and accessories, is still being sought.
PowerBox Systems regrets this necessary decision deeply.”
04-13-2016, 08:33 AM
#37
05-30-2016, 10:15 AM
#38
Gentlemen:
Before this discussion gets blown sideways off track I will share something more recent than March 2016. Late
last night I made an inquiry to Richard Deutsch, President of Power Box Systems Germany relative to the fact
there have been no updates to Power Box's acquisition of Weatronics and what's next..
I enclose Richard''s reply in quotation marks:
(Quote)
"Re: Weatronicprodukte 6 months downstream...?Sent: Monday 30. May 2016, 01:58
by Richard Deutsch
Hello,
unfortunately we will no longer produce or service Weatronic products. From a technical and economic point we
cannot do that. We will work hard to make a new transmitter which should be compatible to the old receivers.
If you need any parts, our partner Fredi Quint may help you:
Superwings Modelvliegsport
Nico Quint
Nieuwe Kazernelaan 57
6711 JB Ede
Tel.: +31 0318 619807 "
(end quote)
Considering the issues over time faced by Wea, PB should not expect less, but perhaps more than six months
to resolve whatever PB does not like about Wea's current OpSys or PwrSys.
For those who have read and want to contact Power Box's Wea technical I have never seen an email address
for Superwings Modelvliegsport's Nico Quint, that worked.
With the original PwrSys capable of operating at higher voltage for reliability you may see this in a Power Box
branded replacement. Leaving their marketplace with nothing but successful roll-out of fabulously received PB
branded product...and Wea a distant memory.
Before this discussion gets blown sideways off track I will share something more recent than March 2016. Late
last night I made an inquiry to Richard Deutsch, President of Power Box Systems Germany relative to the fact
there have been no updates to Power Box's acquisition of Weatronics and what's next..
I enclose Richard''s reply in quotation marks:
(Quote)
"Re: Weatronicprodukte 6 months downstream...?Sent: Monday 30. May 2016, 01:58
by Richard Deutsch
Hello,
unfortunately we will no longer produce or service Weatronic products. From a technical and economic point we
cannot do that. We will work hard to make a new transmitter which should be compatible to the old receivers.
If you need any parts, our partner Fredi Quint may help you:
Superwings Modelvliegsport
Nico Quint
Nieuwe Kazernelaan 57
6711 JB Ede
Tel.: +31 0318 619807 "
(end quote)
Considering the issues over time faced by Wea, PB should not expect less, but perhaps more than six months
to resolve whatever PB does not like about Wea's current OpSys or PwrSys.
For those who have read and want to contact Power Box's Wea technical I have never seen an email address
for Superwings Modelvliegsport's Nico Quint, that worked.
With the original PwrSys capable of operating at higher voltage for reliability you may see this in a Power Box
branded replacement. Leaving their marketplace with nothing but successful roll-out of fabulously received PB
branded product...and Wea a distant memory.
Last edited by FliteMetal; 05-31-2016 at 02:58 PM.
