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Old 05-11-2015, 10:19 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by Pau Hana View Post
We have Glendinning controls, swapped from standard cable controls, and love them. The flybridge station has mechanical backups- so we have the best of both.

We just started playing with our Glendinning synchronizer. Seems to work great. I engage it after clearing the dock and then only need one throttle stick to control both engines.

Got a little scared when I tried to use slave engine throttle after shutting off the synchronizer and got no response. Then I remembered it had to be put all the way back to slow before it would reengage.

I think it's a pretty cool system.
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