12-10-2024, 07:19 PM
The reason why "treat with caution" is that same blue painted shell is now fitted out either with the (circa 2018) original style controller hardware, or the Chinese have performed a shifty and replaced the ECU with a modern featureless unit and also altered the hardware of the controller's innards.
So controller images these days are a cesspool of "I have no f'ing idea" what you are really going to get.
The ONLY part that matters is the ECU within the heater body.
The controller is NOT required to use the Afterburner.
So yes, the Afterburner is developed around the very decent ECU protocol of 2018, it has progressively gotten worse over time with newer inferior ECUs showing up.
Not the mention "trying to catch up" with some of the ideas first proven in the Afterburner many years ago.
So controller images these days are a cesspool of "I have no f'ing idea" what you are really going to get.
The ONLY part that matters is the ECU within the heater body.
The controller is NOT required to use the Afterburner.
So yes, the Afterburner is developed around the very decent ECU protocol of 2018, it has progressively gotten worse over time with newer inferior ECUs showing up.
Not the mention "trying to catch up" with some of the ideas first proven in the Afterburner many years ago.