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Originally Posted by Manav
Its a G1 but the price is tempting. God what do I do?
Brendan is it worth splurging extra for the G2?
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IMHO get a G2 unless the G1 price is right. You can upgrade from G1 to G2 for ~$1k. You re-use the motors and change the controller and handset. I'm keeping my G1 till it dies...although repairing them is pretty easy for me...so it may never die!
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The G1 is a nice kit, a bit dated, has some small quirks and is subject to damage if you plug in the motor connections wrong way around (these leads carry +12V for motors and encoder pulses). There are at present plenty of parts available for G1.
The G2 is much more modern, still a little dated in they way it presents information (IMHO), but, connectivity is excellent and they fixed the motor connection issue. Same connectors and motors (as G1) but different encoder IC's that withstand miss-connection.
I like the way the Gemini handsets (G1/G2) present info...the facts...just the facts and they manner in which they work. I used a gotostar (Gotonova) 32 bit RISC 8 line LCD readout, very modern, bling bling. But the Gemini is much better in the way it works....it just works, does the job no fuss, 100% every time. Goto's are spot on.