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RogueUSMC wrote:

Liberty wrote:

Dave2 wrote:

Ruark wrote:The ugly question of "battery life" arises.

Eh, the battery is only used for the "digital" mode. Unless their design ends up being horrible, I wouldn't worry about it.

How it behaves when the unit fails is important. Battery failures in a device like this might cause some erratic behaviours. Anything that is small, and combines digital with solenoids is subject to strange behavior under low power conditions.

Like power steering when the pump goes out...

I suppose it depends on exactly what they mean by "none of these modes are affected by the battery" (with "these" referring to "safe" and "mechanical semi-auto"). From how they've described it, there's no reason the selector switch couldn't be the power switch as well. If they did it that way, any low-battery strangeness would go away as soon as you put the selector in the 1st or 2nd position, because at that point the electronics would be completely unpowered.

Ruark wrote:The ugly question of "battery life" arises.

Eh, the battery is only used for the "digital" mode. Unless their design ends up being horrible, I wouldn't worry about it.

WTR wrote:Might be fun at the range. However, I'm not using it in a SD situation.

Yeah, especially for long-range ranges. I don't want a flat 1lb trigger on anything, but a 1lb trigger that you have to explicitly enable first is fine by me for range toys.

Might be good for hunting, too.

bblhd672 wrote:Plus since it is digital what guarantee is there that the software can't be modified to allow full bursts or full auto?

I'd imagine the same guarantee that all ARs come with — none, other than most people don't have the tools to make the changes.

User-upgradeable firmware is something that manufacturers generally have to go out of their way to support.