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Originally Posted by Bellyups
Here is the diagram on the Shimano DCs http://fish.shimano.com/media/fishin...9830637843.pdf It is interesting Shimano marketing as I only see magnets and no digital technology. None the less, I am tempted by the reel and hope it works awesome. Perhaps the digital dial contains the digital chip. It is nteresting how they do not label the digital dial on the diagram. |
It's very interesting how the magnets are mounted on the spool, not on the side plate. The Trinidad DC doesn't seem to have the digital control coil pack that the Calcuttas do... I've yet to see a disassembled Trini DC and the "Digital Control" assembly, but I've got a suspicion that this may be a case of massive marketing and less substance
On the beaches of the East Coast, magged reels are nothing new, the most popular of which are the Penn 525 Mags. Magnetic braking works on the Lenz Law, which basically states that a spinning metallic, non-magnetic object (such as the aluminum spool) generates a magnetic field proportional to the speed it's spinning. By placing magnets on a side plate of a conventional reel near the side of the spool, the mags will slow the reel down
when the spool is at it's max speed. At slow speeds, the spool does not generate a detectible magnetic field, thus the magnets do not have an effect on it. By varying the strength of the mags (usually varying the number of magnets or the distance between them and the side of the spool), the reel can be tuned to perform at a certain level (ie casting far with heavy lures, or casting short with light lures) with no backlashes. Having an adjustable control means that it can be easily dialed in, while static mags require partial disassembly of the reel.