Well, I have had an enjoyable telephone conversation (half an hour ) with Dave from Electronize and he assures me that he is still going to produce the 15 amp speed controller - he also told me why he actually stopped making the 30 amp speed controller because people were
connecting the battery
around the wrong way and destroying the speed controller.
He was telling me at a later date he may upgrade the design for the 30 amp one to prevent this from happening. I asked him also about him retiring and he said not yet
he is on a slowing down process but he is still fairly active. Healthwise he says his health is good
, but he is like others plus myself -
stone deaf so sometimes its difficult to communicate on the phone with him.
Now for the important bit - if you do a web
search - you can find his postal address - if those who genuinely wish to purchase speed controllers and are having difficult locating his address send me a personal message.
Derek, to answer your query on a real ship with twin engines - yes they do start out of sequence when
they first start up but once started they are regulated by the tachometer to bring them in line with one another. Sadly, though, this doesn't happen on an autoset twin speed controller - if one is out of sequence on rpm it maintains that and sometimes the gap increases in rpm so if you leave it without correction of the rudder the vessel will veer off to one side.
john