RE: Whow cheap turbine!!!!
Mike, please note that there are MANY (like hundreds or more) of sucessfull home built turbines, that are balanced by hand without any electronics. Mine for instance, (two of them) with one engine having run up to 160,000 for allmost 13 hours now (my Wren 54 MKII kit I balanced myself and fly regularly) and a home built KJ66 with about 3 hours on it.
There is nothing wrong with a home balanced engine, as long as it is donr properly, and the person doing it understands what to do (where to remove material) and when is it "good enough"...
For more info join the GTBA and read up on it. Thats not to say electronic dynamic balancing is not better (in most cases) but you wouldnt beleive how smooth an engine balanced statically by hand can be. Nothing unsafe about it.
AJC