1. Slalom pull is modified with new gains intended to address concerns from the 1st year of experience about the aggressiveness of the pull. A, B, C still have a similar progression, but all three have been toned down and the phasing of the pull relative to the buoys modified somewhat. Engine control software no longer needs to be updated to make changes to slalom "pull".

2. For both jump and slalom, speed setpoints are always forced to official tournament setspeeds when on the tournament screen. This is at the request of the speed control committee. Last year's software allowed a non tournament speed set on the general screen to persist if you switched to the tournament screen without changing the setspeed once on the tournament screen.

3. Jump software has been significantly modified to improve the pull, better handle the lower end jumpers and collegiate level competitors, and to address rule changes emanating from AWSA leading to the new 52m buoy timing requirement. The system now reports 52m time, 82m time, exit gate time and speed at the 82m buoy. There is a new symbol appearing above the ON/OFF icon which ranges from 0 to 9 in normal operation. This is a "boat adjust" number which allows differences in boat power/prop setups to be accounted for in picking jump setups. A 5 is for an "average" boat, lower numbers are for strong boats that respond more aggressively to sudden loads, and higher numbers are for weaker boats. This number changes to a "$" whenever the rope switch is activated, intended to allow the rope switch to be checked before starting a pass. There is also a new "abort" feature that will allow the driver to cancel all the special responses to rope switch closures in the jump course by hitting the UP arrow anytime the boat has entered a jump course. This is to allow people jumping on very tight jump courses/lakes (Jaret) to make warmup passes with regular countercut type reponses to rope switch closures even if they are skiing down through the jump course while doing their setup.

4. A River mode has been added which can be enabled via the MENU/SET submenu. This is intended to address trick/wakeboard concerns about handling river currents. When River Mode is enabled, an estimate of the speed of the current can be entered, and the driver can then add or subtract this speed offset from the baseline speed setpoint (add when riding with the current, subtract while riding against the current) while making his turn with a single push on the SEL button (hold SEL for trick, tap SEL for wakeboard). The intent is to allow the driver a simple single adjustment means of maintaining constant speed over the water with or against currents. This function only operates from the tournament screen where the two additional selectable parameters (river current speed and an UpRiver/DNRiver icon) show up only when this option is enabled.

5. If engine software supports it, a throttle override mode can be be enabled via the MENU/SET submenu which allows the driver to introduce brief bursts of extra power by pumping the throttle handle even while cruise is active. This feature will not be available with stock '07 and probably most '08 engine software revs.

6. Support has been added for 4 and 8 buoy slalom courses, these types are now available to select while mapping a course.

7. There have been many enhancements made to the whole course autodetect function. Course autodetect or a course selection can now be disabled via the course type selection icon on the general screen (the large arrow converts to a course type selection icon when highlighted using the SEL button). If this icon is changed to the "E" selection, this will: a) deselect any course (of any type) that has been selected and b) turn off the course autodetect feature. Autodetect can be turned back on by simply modifying the course type selection away from the Off condition ("E" displayed) to whatever course type is desired. Any time course autodetect has been disabled using this feature, it will stay disabled regardless of what screen you are on until you exercise the course type selection option on either the general or tournament screens. I suspect this is what happened when you experienced your problem with the system not detecting the course you had just mapped. While adding this feature, I also modified the general screen direction arrow display to function as follows: If a slalom or jump course is selected and active, the arrow will take on a rounded shape and always show whether the boat is aligned with the course, eg for slalom or jump it will always point striaght up or down as you travel along the line of the course. If a waypoint is selected, the same rounded arrow shape is used and will point in the direction of the waypoint, in addition to showing distance to the named waypoint on the bottom text line. For all other cases, the arrow will take it's "pointy" shape and provide a true compass function, showing what direction the boat is travelling in relative to North. Course autodetect will only detect courses of any type (including waypoints) that are within 1 Km of the boat's current location. If multiple courses are within that radius, the closest one will always be selected. If a specific course is desired to be selected to the exclusion of ones that are closer, or a course that is further away than 1Km, it can be selected manually via the MENU/MAP submenu, and autodetect will be turned off. This feature is useful for two situations: 1) slalom or jump courses overlap to the point where autodetect can't reliably distinguish them on the fly or 2) a distant waypoint (eg a boat ramp) is desired even though a closer one (some river/lake location you want to keep track of for returning to in the future) has been mapped in the system. Note that the ability of course autodetect to distinguish between slalom/jump courses that are close together has been improved by 15 meters or so, but there are still situations where entry/exit gates of multiple courses can be set up so that autodetect fails. For these cases, use the manual select/autodetect disable option by picking the course manually via the MENU/MAP submenu. Last year's software also had a problem with not working properly if the same course was mapped into multiple course memory slots. This has been corrected.

8. Some of the SET menu options have been adjusted:
a. Backlight and Contrast have been combined into a single function
b. The Buzzer volume adjust at two speeds has been combined into a single function
c. A Jump Letter Select option has been added to allow a starting jump letter to be selected based on the jumper's weight and estimated jump distance ability
d. A slalom warning timer adjust option has been added to simplify adjusting the warning timer from the previous method which required navigating through the MENU/WHO submenu.

e. River Mode enable/disable has been added. If supported by engine software features, a Throttle Override Mode enable/disable option will show up at the end of the list.

Note that options c & d don't show up on wakeboard systems.

9. New software will support reprogramming in the future using Rinda/Diacomm tools used in some dealerships.

Rev O Released
03/18/08 - 10:00AM CST
NOTE: Rev O is released for tournament approved use only 

Zero Off Software, Cables and Updates:
02/03/08 - 10:00AM CST
NOTE: You must have an eComm cable for any software or future updates. After your purchase you will be given a link with the FTP address for the software and instruction downloads.