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Wild Country new 8-Jun-2016 At 2:16:40 PM Drake

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Here's a link to a thread on another discussion board, with a video with a british tradster at the bottom introducing the device: https://www.mountainproject.com/v/wild-country-revo/111880037

I think it's best to think about this device as two ATCs with an ASAP in between them. (Petzl's ASAP is an inertial reel autolocking device that is widely used in the rope access world.) Inertial reels lock when the rope speed exceeds a specified velocity- Petzl's ASAP is designed to lock at ~2.5m/s. They lock up reliably and it's harder to interfere with the autolock mechanism on an inertial reel than something like a grigri.

The more I think about this device, the more I think I might like it. However I'm not sure how to transition from catching a fall with the interial reel engaged, to lowering the climber. It seems like the climber would need to unweight the rope to release the reel.