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Originally Posted by alantani
as far as their blue line maintaining a constant drag pressure, i see no mechanism to allow the reel to compensate for the decreasing diameter of the line on the spool as a big fish takes his run. what they had to do was bolt the reel to a bench with a full spool of line, tie the line off to a fixed digital scale, and then hook up the handle arm to a variable speed electric motor and turn the handle. if the graph is accurate, then it looks like they had a 25% drop in drag pressure over time, probably due to heat. that is not good either.
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i had assumed the reel was somehow attached to a scale and the graph was was over the entire dumping of the line as it was being unspooled
i don't understand how turning the handle of the reel with an electric motor could allow for measurements to be taken as if a full spool is being reduced to an empty spool if all that's being done is winding the handle
i don't really understand their RDSystem, (and, of course, no doubt, they used a 'worst-case-scenario' disc drag for comparision purposes in their advertising), but the out-of-the-box performance had caught my eye.......... no tweaking of the drag required (and possibly less maintenance?)
i'm with you on the heat build up and loss of drag pressure...... especially if an electric motor was used to spool line OFF the reel, increasing the diameter of line coming onto the spool attached to motor all-the-while reducing the line diameter of the reel's spool
anyway, thanx for the reply and your info on disc drags