Curtiss-Wright Programmers

[martin007]

I'm reading a little today.
Knowledge is money.

> https://www.cw-industrial.com/en-gb/med ... rogrammers

PC Programmers are complete and useful.

The rest of the programmers have many shortcomings and are little useful.
Why are there Wireless Programmers, On-Board Programmers, Portable Programmers?
Are they just a way to sell?

[Burgerman]

PC Programmers are complete and useful.

I would suggest that a powerchair with no way to properly program it of configure it is pretty much useless. A programmer isnt useful its essential!

Not all PC based programmers are really that useful or batter than handheld units either.

With most systems the only programmers that you can get your hands on are very restricted. These are dealer/end user programmers. They can be handheld with a cable, PC based, with a cable or wireless and via a phone or PC. But they frequently cannot change the very things we want to change. Walls that restrict various settings. Or a thread here today has a user trying to swap motors as stock ones no longer available. He has a PC based programmer but its isnt capable of changing the brake voltage, or the load compensation that will allow him to safely swap to different motors. So frequently dealer level tools are a waste of time. https://www.wheelchairdriver.com/board/ ... =2&t=12613

The rest of the programmers have many shortcomings and are little useful.

Also not completely true. There are OEM level programmers that are hand held. I have a pilot plus version here.

Why are there Wireless Programmers, On-Board Programmers, Portable Programmers?
Are they just a way to sell?

Earlier in the development of powerchairs programming was simple and basic. And most systems used hand held tools. Portable programmers. These could be basic, dealer or OEM or manufacturing level tools. IF they would sell that too you... And thats a big problem.

It remains a problem with wireless programmers, too. The wireless part simply replaces a cable. And the dealer level dongle has its own "web server" and website that is built in. So anything with a web browser can connect and program the chair. At a dealer level.
OBP or on board programming is just the same thing as a dealer programmer, or a wireless dealer programmer really. But it uses the joysticks 3 inch screen instead to program the chair. So it BUILT IN. Depending on the original manufacturers firmware requests when they configured and set up their systems this MAY or may NOT be available, and also sometimes its not even available if you access the system with a OEM level dongle and PC software and try to enable this.

[martin007]

OK.


Now...

> https://www.cw-industrial.com/en-gb/med ... programmer

Suppose I own a powerchair with VR2.
I manufacture a PC to powerchair cable.

Is the manufacturer's software more complete than the OEM's software?

[Burgerman]

Not by much. But we have that too.

[martin007]

Many thanks.

[Burgerman]

Suppose I own a powerchair with VR2.
I manufacture a PC to powerchair cable.

Do you have a VR2 chair?
If so a cable is easy, woodyGB. And the software is easy too...

[martin007]

I have reserved a VR2 powerchair.
They are assembling it.

In any case I'm learning about the Curtiss-Wright products.