On the left: 2009
On the right: 2017
Ok they're different brands, but that "depower rope" is only as thick as pigtails or leader lines.
No wonder it snapped after less than 100 hours, half of them foiling.
he is showing the line inside the pvc tube that holds the kites center lines, I agree its very thingrigorib wrote: ↑Thu Mar 15, 2018 12:27 amCabrinha depower rope is way thicker compared to what you show. Look at picture of my Cabrinha bar (24m lines are Best) used for 11 weeks of kite trips in 2017-2018, and notice thickness of depower line compared to lines and pigtails.
In your picture the thin line might be the quick release line, and these are never as thick as depower lines
The thick line that goes through the cleat for trim is lark's headed onto the depower lines just above the cleat -- you'll see it's actually two loops there, as the depower line is the long thin one that runs down the PU tube and around the top half of the spinning head and back. Supposed to be 650kg breaking load, so it should be enough but crikey, it doesn't *look* enough!grigorib wrote: ↑Thu Mar 15, 2018 12:27 amCabrinha depower rope is way thicker compared to what you show. Look at picture of my Cabrinha bar (24m lines are Best) used for 11 weeks of kite trips in 2017-2018, and notice thickness of depower line compared to lines and pigtails.
In your picture the thin line might be the quick release line, and these are never as thick as depower lines
Yeah these are maybe 3mm, if not 2.5. Fairly annoying job of pulling everything to bit to replace them too, it's not like the Flysurfer etc where you can replace a depower line in a couple of minutes, without tools or needing to splice anything.edt wrote: ↑Thu Mar 15, 2018 4:20 amold depower line was 6mm (1/4 inch), about 4,000 kg strength (about 4 tons), newer depower line is 5mm (3/16th inch), about 2,400kg strength (about 2 tons). Leader lines are somewhere around 3mm (1/8th inch) about 1,000kg strength, about 1 ton. Leader line thickness depower is perfectly strong enough to handle the kiteboarding loads and the only reason we don't use lines that thin is because you would be changing them out every other week from wear. as long as they are new 3mm should be strong enough. But who wants to be replacing the depower lines all the time, give me the thick ones.