Ticking, still no idea. As Talonz states, starts, stop's, then sometimes starts again, they goes away.
Outright noise is the result of damaged bearings. We drop tested the design many times and could never damage the bearings, but I guess we where not as ruff as the couries can be.
Very few so far, even so we changed the bearing design and mounting to increase damage resistance.
We also changed shaft material from Stainless Steel to Tungsten Carbide, to avoid improper heat treating issues found in post inspection.
The upgrade the program is closed through sales, in fact sales is closed to all retail orders right now. C-Systems production is at full capacity for parent company internal use and OEM orders. AVT is also at full capacity developing product and tooling for OEM use.
The "big" pump is on the test bench, no idea yet if the contracting company wishes to release product for general use.
Many new products coming out soon, and the begining of 2006, none of which will have the "C-Systems" product label attached, but if you look in fine print you may see AVT
MAG-MKII completed developement and testing, again no idea on release dates.
AVT has sold there US automotive operations to one of there major clients and is expanding the Canadian operations with the purchase of a Toronto based pumping fixture company.
Thats about all the news I have guys.
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