Comments for AndrewMartens.com http://www.andrewmartens.com/blog Who cares? Sun, 13 May 2012 20:15:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Add an internal Zip to your ESI-2000 by rodrigo http://www.andrewmartens.com/blog/?p=27&cpage=1#comment-32254 rodrigo Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:28:40 +0000 http://andrewmartens.com/blog/?p=27#comment-32254 hi, does it work if i try to add a iomega internal jaz drive 2gb insteade the zip drive? hi, does it work if i try to add a iomega internal jaz drive 2gb insteade the zip drive?

]]> Comment on MMT-8 keypad repair for dummies by BRENDA PETTY http://www.andrewmartens.com/blog/?p=6&cpage=1#comment-20427 BRENDA PETTY Fri, 02 Sep 2011 06:18:47 +0000 http://andrewmartens.com/blog/?p=6#comment-20427 I purchased 2 alesis mmt8's at different times on ebay and both arrived DOA (no paypal insurance) One device dumps data as soon as it is saved and begins flashing strange data on the screen, the other one has strange letters and numbers rapidly flashing on the screen always. Could this be a battery issue, Can you help me? BJ a href="#comment-7">@nick </a> I purchased 2 alesis mmt8’s at different times on ebay and both arrived DOA (no paypal insurance) One device dumps data as soon as it is saved and begins flashing strange data on the screen, the other one has strange letters and numbers rapidly flashing on the screen always. Could this be a battery issue, Can you help me?

BJ

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]]> Comment on About by Karl Baltz http://www.andrewmartens.com/blog/?page_id=2&cpage=1#comment-13157 Karl Baltz Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:48:07 +0000 #comment-13157 Dear Mr. Martens, I am researching the Chinook Whirlwind Guide 5 person tent that you wrote an excellent review of back in 2008. I am a motorcycle rider and I am looking for a tent that will allow me to have the bike inside the vestibule when I am not riding it while camping. The tent that I am replaceing is very similiar to the Trailwind Long Star 3 person tent or the Whirlwind 3 person tent (without the ridge support system). These two tents are about two feet short in supporting my having my bike in the vestibule. I need at least 100 inches and the doors going into the vestibules from the side are too narrow. The Guide 5 tent is more than big enough in the vestibule narrow axis to shelter my motorcycle, but I don't have a feel for how big the side door or the end door on the vesitbule are in the height and width. Also it appear from your photos that your version of the Guide 5 tent has two side vestibule doors where it looks like the current 20011 catalog version of the Chinook Whirlwind Guide 5 only has one side vestibule door. Can you provide the deminsions of the side vestibule door on your Guide 5 tent? Also how big is the packed tent? in you opinion is or would this tent be a lot of over kill for a one person camping trip traveling on a big touring motorcycle? The other tent that I am considering is the Nomad Tenere tent. It was designed for the adventure motorcycle rider and allows the motorcycle to be driven into the larger vestibule and the driven out without having to back the bike out. It is a two person tent with room to store gear both inside main tent as well as in the vestibule areas. It is a hoop design that allows the outside fly to be completly stand alone with the inner tent being clipped to the outer fly. Bike garage area. It is less than half the floor space of the Guide 5 in the inner tent and the largest vestibule is only 100" X 50" is size. and it is twice the price of what I could buy the Guide 5 for. Both tents provide 6 feet of head space. The Guide 5 has heavier coatings, more inner tent floor space and larger main vestibule. Larger packed footprint (I think the Guide is 9 inchs longer than the Nomad) and almost twice the packed weight of the Nomad tent. Inner tent for Guide has to be assembled first then the fly/vestibule where with the Nomad the FLy and tent can go up at the same time. If it is raining, the Nomad will get you out of the rain faster than any other tent. Also when striking camp, the Nomad is designed to allow the camper/motorcycle rider to repack inner tent and other camp gear on motorcycle without anything getting wet ( cause everything is inside the stand alone fly) put rain gear on and then exit the fly and drop the fly and pack in separate waterproof bag to keep the rest of gear from getting wet. So I am having to weigh the plus and minus of both tents. and then weigh the $200 price of a Guide 5 versus the Nomad $400 price, floor space of both, ease of driving my motorcycle into the vestibule and nice feature of erecting both fly and tent as one (or separately drop if raining) or separately erecting the tent then the rain fly. With the Chinook Whirlwind Guide 5 tent, a lot will depend on the size of the single side door opening of the vestibule and the height of the vestibule above the side door. I would appreciate any information you can provide. Thank you very much! Regards Karl Baltz Houston, Texas Dear Mr. Martens,

I am researching the Chinook Whirlwind Guide 5 person tent that you wrote an excellent review of back in 2008. I am a motorcycle rider and I am looking for a tent that will allow me to have the bike inside the vestibule when I am not riding it while camping. The tent that I am replaceing is very similiar to the Trailwind Long Star 3 person tent or the Whirlwind 3 person tent (without the ridge support system). These two tents are about two feet short in supporting my having my bike in the vestibule. I need at least 100 inches and the doors going into the vestibules from the side are too narrow. The Guide 5 tent is more than big enough in the vestibule narrow axis to shelter my motorcycle, but I don’t have a feel for how big the side door or the end door on the vesitbule are in the height and width. Also it appear from your photos that your version of the Guide 5 tent has two side vestibule doors where it looks like the current 20011 catalog version of the Chinook Whirlwind Guide 5 only has one side vestibule door. Can you provide the deminsions of the side vestibule door on your Guide 5 tent? Also how big is the packed tent? in you opinion is or would this tent be a lot of over kill for a one person camping trip traveling on a big touring motorcycle?

The other tent that I am considering is the Nomad Tenere tent. It was designed for the adventure motorcycle rider and allows the motorcycle to be driven into the larger vestibule and the driven out without having to back the bike out. It is a two person tent with room to store gear both inside main tent as well as in the vestibule areas. It is a hoop design that allows the outside fly to be completly stand alone with the inner tent being clipped to the outer fly. Bike garage area. It is less than half the floor space of the Guide 5 in the inner tent and the largest vestibule is only 100″ X 50″ is size. and it is twice the price of what I could buy the Guide 5 for.

Both tents provide 6 feet of head space.
The Guide 5 has heavier coatings, more inner tent floor space and larger main vestibule.
Larger packed footprint (I think the Guide is 9 inchs longer than the Nomad) and almost twice the packed weight of the Nomad tent.

Inner tent for Guide has to be assembled first then the fly/vestibule where with the Nomad the FLy and tent can go up at the same time. If it is raining, the Nomad will get you out of the rain faster than any other tent. Also when striking camp, the Nomad is designed to allow the camper/motorcycle rider to repack inner tent and other camp gear on motorcycle without anything getting wet ( cause everything is inside the stand alone fly) put rain gear on and then exit the fly and drop the fly and pack in separate waterproof bag to keep the rest of gear from getting wet.

So I am having to weigh the plus and minus of both tents. and then weigh the $200 price of a Guide 5 versus the Nomad $400 price, floor space of both, ease of driving my motorcycle into the vestibule and nice feature of erecting both fly and tent as one (or separately drop if raining) or separately erecting the tent then the rain fly.

With the Chinook Whirlwind Guide 5 tent, a lot will depend on the size of the single side door opening of the vestibule and the height of the vestibule above the side door.

I would appreciate any information you can provide.

Thank you very much!

Regards

Karl Baltz
Houston, Texas

]]> Comment on MMT-8 keypad repair for dummies by Alex http://www.andrewmartens.com/blog/?p=6&cpage=1#comment-13107 Alex Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:51:37 +0000 http://andrewmartens.com/blog/?p=6#comment-13107 Hi, I just bought an mmt8, it powers on fine, original power supply, it powers on fine with the screen reading the typical alesis mmt8 version 1.10 message, but then it sticks to the message reading 'select song 90, no song name', the red LED next to the song button as well as all the track button LEDs are all lit up and pressing other buttons does nothing, help! Please! Hi, I just bought an mmt8, it powers on fine, original power supply, it powers on fine with the screen reading the typical alesis mmt8 version 1.10 message, but then it sticks to the message reading ’select song 90, no song name’, the red LED next to the song button as well as all the track button LEDs are all lit up and pressing other buttons does nothing, help! Please!

]]> Comment on About by Eric http://www.andrewmartens.com/blog/?page_id=2&cpage=1#comment-10699 Eric Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:17:44 +0000 #comment-10699 Andrew, Read your blog on the Mungo Juno 6 retrofit.. I just picked up one myself but can't find all the parts I need! Where do you go for 24 gauge AWG cable?? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Eric Andrew,

Read your blog on the Mungo Juno 6 retrofit.. I just picked up one myself but can’t find all the parts I need! Where do you go for 24 gauge AWG cable?? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Eric

]]> Comment on Review: Chinook Whirlwind Guide 5 Tent by Lynda http://www.andrewmartens.com/blog/?p=32&cpage=1#comment-10478 Lynda Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:25:20 +0000 http://andrewmartens.com/blog/?p=32#comment-10478 Thanks for the informative review, your pics enabled me to examine the tent more closely. I love the configuration - we have a 7yo son and have been in situations where he needs a place to sleep and we need somewhere under cover to hang out for the evening. The tent arrived a few days ago and have set it up in the garden to go over the seams - we are taking it to the Mile High campground in NC at the weekend, so anything could happen with the weather. I did notice that there are no loops at the bottom of the side-door zips to hold the doors closed while there are loops at both the end doors on the fly - so the side-door zips are under tension. Have you found any problems there? I'm really looking forward to using the tent. Thanks for the informative review, your pics enabled me to examine the tent more closely. I love the configuration – we have a 7yo son and have been in situations where he needs a place to sleep and we need somewhere under cover to hang out for the evening. The tent arrived a few days ago and have set it up in the garden to go over the seams – we are taking it to the Mile High campground in NC at the weekend, so anything could happen with the weather.

I did notice that there are no loops at the bottom of the side-door zips to hold the doors closed while there are loops at both the end doors on the fly – so the side-door zips are under tension. Have you found any problems there?

I’m really looking forward to using the tent.

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