Certate vs Branzino Gears

[chopperdog]

I've been trying to understand the difference in gearing between the two. Didigear Drive II system (Certate) vs Hyper Digital Gear System (the soon to be relelased Branzino).

Am I right in assuming that they're made of the same material (the marketing blurb makes me think so) but cut by a different process? Is there actually much difference at all?

[The Doctor]

Originally Posted by chopperdog

I've been trying to understand the difference in gearing between the two. Didigear Drive II system (Certate) vs Hyper Digital Gear System (the soon to be relelased Branzino).

Am I right in assuming that they're made of the same material (the marketing blurb makes me think so) but cut by a different process? Is there actually much difference at all?

Chopperdog, I hope this paragraph from Alan Hawk's review on 2010 Saltiga answers your question:

"Before I move away from the gear, I need to comment on something because I heard a lot of misinformation regarding Daiwa's gears. People think that "Hyper Digigear" and "Digigear II" are different than the original "Digigear". That is not right. At the beginning all drive gears made using that process were called "Digigear" by Daiwa regardless of what material was used. Then Daiwa renamed their first tier gears to "Hyper Digigear", which is a drive gear made of C6191 aluminium/bronze alloy (usually coupled with a stainless steel pinion), and they renamed their second tier drive gear "Digigear II", which is a drive gear made of duralumin (usually paired with a brass pinion). So it's just new designations, but gears are still made the same way as the originals. I've seen some people mistakenly describe the gears in the new Saltiga as "Digigear II" instead of the correct "Hyper Digigear", but hopefully now there will no longer be such confusion."

See the whole review here if you want to read more on his review:

http://www.alanhawk.com/reviews/salt10.html

[chopperdog]

Thanks Doctor. Great info!