Yes I mean sticky.
My Zulu or should I say my wife's Zulu headset gets very little flight time and mainly resides in a comfortable padded environment (case) on a shelf in the hanger. So it has been sheltered for most of its life. Recently we started noticing the battery back/controller was starting to get sticky/tacky.
I called Lightspeed support and it turns out they use a soft touch coating on the battery back/controller on the Zulu (original) headset. This type of coating deteriorates over time and gets annoyingly sticky (tacky).
$100 to "repair" according to the tech support with the same soft touch coated parts. I don't think the soft touch coating is worth it. The rest of the headset is in fine condition.
So if anyone from Lightspeed reads this post, bag the soft touch coatings. It made a great headset not so great anymore. I have a feeling my wife will not want to touch the sticky battery/controller or she will spend most of the flight trying to clean it with the thousands of sanitary germ fighting wipes she carries everywhere she goes.
FYI-The tech support person did not know if the newer generation Lightspeed headsets have the soft touch coating or not.
Have any others experienced this sticky situation?
My Zulu or should I say my wife's Zulu headset gets very little flight time and mainly resides in a comfortable padded environment (case) on a shelf in the hanger. So it has been sheltered for most of its life. Recently we started noticing the battery back/controller was starting to get sticky/tacky.
I called Lightspeed support and it turns out they use a soft touch coating on the battery back/controller on the Zulu (original) headset. This type of coating deteriorates over time and gets annoyingly sticky (tacky).
$100 to "repair" according to the tech support with the same soft touch coated parts. I don't think the soft touch coating is worth it. The rest of the headset is in fine condition.
So if anyone from Lightspeed reads this post, bag the soft touch coatings. It made a great headset not so great anymore. I have a feeling my wife will not want to touch the sticky battery/controller or she will spend most of the flight trying to clean it with the thousands of sanitary germ fighting wipes she carries everywhere she goes.
FYI-The tech support person did not know if the newer generation Lightspeed headsets have the soft touch coating or not.
Have any others experienced this sticky situation?