Monday, February 11, 2013

Out with the Old in with the New

Over the years dad and I have accumulated quite a bit of equipment.  Most of it is from the era of traversing and we had to take stock in the situation.  We are hard pressed to throw any thing away simply because replacement parts are hard to come by.  Plus the nearset survey supply store is 200 plus miles away.  So we we were sitting in the office and decided to see what was useful and what wasn't.  We had on hand a set of Topcon Legacy RTK equipment, pre bluetooth that we don't use.  A set of Hyper plus RTK equipment that is gathering dust.  We have become a trimble shop so the Topcon stuff was laying around doing nothing but taking up space.

We concluded that we should make the Topcon equipment work for us so we traded it for a Robotic Total station.  I can not wait to get my hands on it.  I was a little disappointted that the Topcon gear didn't fetch a higher trade in but it is Pre L2C so it is only a matter of time before it is KAPUT.  Plus we found out the "local" Topcon dealer would no longer support the legacy or the hyper so the decision was easy.

I wish the equipment dealers were a little more understanding but they are in the business of making money selling thelatest and greatest gizmoes.  When the equipment relies on computer systems and such it is a little hard to keep up when they decide to no longer support the old technology and adopt new.  So here we are.  At least we can make the older gear work for us to aquire a robotic total station.  It seems that will be of some benefit rather than sitting in the office not being used at all.  So it will be somewhat of a win if at all.

I really hate trying to keep up with the technology race but some times you just have to.

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