 Poster: A snowHead
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Pieps have a new beeper out
[url=https://www.pieps.com/en/product/pro-ips/][/url]
- the biggest 'new feature' is a claimed 80m search strip width.
Anyone seen any reviews?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Going to be a tough sell given the number of recalls they've experienced.
I had a pieps DSP 3 (I think, anyway pre black diamond purchase) and loved it. I ended up swapping for Mammut because every guide I went with would go "hey - is that a pieps...."
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| sweaman22 wrote: |
| I ended up swapping for Mammut because every guide I went with would go "hey - is that a pieps...." |
As a Pieps owner, and pardon my ignorance, but I'm just checking what's the context of the comment...is it a good or bad thing  ?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'm not sure it is so black and white. As someone that had a pieps at the time I followed it. Basically there were 2 incidents around 3 years apart of people caught in avalanches finding there beacon wasn't in send mode. They assumed the slider had moved without them touching it, which ofcourse would make the beacon dangerous. This was followed by some videos of people showing their transceiver could slide pretty easily without having to press the button in. The argument was that these people had damaged their devices by forcing the slider without pressing in the button. I gave it a good go, but even pushing it relatively hard I couldn't get any movement in mine, and based on the design it was really hard to see how you could create enough force in that exact spot to blow it. Pieps put the transceivers through a bunch of testing and they were cleared by international safety standards. However, a lot of people were understandably worried. So pieps offered free hard cases which completely lock the beacon in send mode. Im more than happy with the hard case solution which solves any potential issue (which I'm still not 100% convinced exists).
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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Yeah... I was kind of irritated by it all to be honest and my particular beacon wasn't covered by the recall at all. I had several guides though (all in Canada) who were clearly uncomfortable with me using it despite being competent with it in search mode so I decided to switch. I think the incidents were both in North America so that probably didn't help.
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@boarder2020, by chance my DSP Sport had just been replaced by Pieps at the point that the whole thing blew up. So I had a brand new unused transceiver - no question of any damage. With the beacon stowed in its holster as per Pieps' instructions, I could switch it off simply by rubbing it a couple of times against my ribs - the sort of motion that could easily happen in a fall, and that would definitely be a problem if I was caught in an avalanche. There's no doubt in my mind, based on this experience, that the fault was real and not due to prior damage.
As you say, the revised holster fixes the issue and there's no reason to believe that a Pieps beacon is any less reliable than the next brand. Pieps' initial handling of the incident was poor, and I think it's this more than anything else that has tarnished their reputation.
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Thanks for the replies. Explains why I got sent a new holster in the post then
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