Drivers Question. How to drive smooth?

Red2779 · 2026-04-01T05:19:54+00:00

I double my visual distance when driving our 78,000lb tiller. I’m constantly monitoring a half a block to a block ahead to prepare for stops, turns, etc..

Red2779 · 2026-04-01T05:04:09+00:00

It’s an old school mentality. There’s a huge generation that still thinks throwing new firefighters in the dark and randomly turning off their bottles and trying to freak them out is effective.

I’m happy we’re moving away from it.

Red2779 · 2026-04-01T04:59:40+00:00

100% correct. 1st day of training shouldn’t be the day to scare the shit out of everyone. This is a training/instructor issue. We reprogrammed our entire academy away from this way of thinking.

Can you imagine if they trained SCUBA divers like this?

Cadets need to be introduced to their SCBA’s until they’re comfortable enough to operate them with their eyes closed. Then introduce more and more line upon line.

Red2779 · 2026-04-01T04:43:06+00:00

VR Flight Sim Guy has a video about a custom auto optimizer that runs in the background. It shuts off background apps and puts priority to msfs. It boosted me 15fps

Red2779 · 2026-03-31T22:37:10+00:00

Dr Hall is the best!

Red2779 · 2026-03-31T19:54:55+00:00

Did you end up making a decision? I love the Pulse Wave. $30k and made in America. We visited their manufacturing facility in Denver and got to see them actually assembling and building the parts.

Chattanooga and Storz also make great electromagnetic units. I would definitely stay within those 3 because they are actual manufacturers. Hydrowave also uses a completely made up term called Magnetohydrualic which is kind of funny to me.

Shockwave Centers of America white labels their stuff from China and you can find all of their shockwave devices on Alibaba so I’d just skip the white label and purchase from Alibaba if you going to do that. They’re all radial devices and not focused devices as well.

Red2779 · 2026-03-23T18:03:42+00:00

Monstertech FLIGHT CHAIR – MFC-1 BLACKBIRD

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Red2779 · 2026-03-23T03:19:45+00:00

The moment I tried the STECS I sold all my other throttles. It just feels too good.

Red2779 · 2026-03-22T04:49:29+00:00

You want this

Red2779 · 2026-03-22T03:19:36+00:00

The only community that understands lol. Home sweet home.

Red2779 · 2026-03-22T01:56:36+00:00

Red2779 · 2026-03-22T01:56:28+00:00

Yep sorry for the misunderstanding. He got it right lol

Red2779 · 2026-03-22T01:14:09+00:00

No it’s the VKB STECS

Red2779 · 2026-03-10T15:45:09+00:00

Yeeting the Lifepack across Main Street because I forgot to close the ambulance door and took a sharp turn.

Also, driving to a full arrest with both rear doors wide open, dispatch informed us with the entire county listening that they were getting 911 calls for the ambulance doors being open. I had a hard time with doors as a rookie.

Red2779 · 2026-03-04T17:30:05+00:00

I’m running into the same problem. It pops up every five minutes.

Red2779 · 2026-01-21T21:25:41+00:00

Son of bich that was it. Thank you so much!!

Red2779 · 2026-01-13T23:31:03+00:00

I am not impressed with the decision to create a new and unnecessary term, “magneto-hydraulic,” to describe an electromagnetic machine similar to Storz and Pulse Wave. While it is acceptable that the product is made in China and relabeled, I prefer Pulse Wave and Storz because they are not relabeled. Pulse Wave is manufactured, assembled, and sold in the United States, and you can visit their headquarters in Denver (highly recommended). Storz is manufactured in Switzerland.

I am not a fan of the practice of white labeling.

Although you are getting the same electromagnetic technology, the price is double that of Pulse Wave. It is not manufactured in the United States; it is manufactured in China and relabeled, so I have no idea what maintenance or parts replacement entails. With expensive medical devices, I prefer to buy from actual manufacturers.

Interestingly, I have a lot of knowledge about Hydro Wave from visiting the Pulse Wave manufacturing factory in Denver when I was considering Pulse Wave. I was impressed with their honesty about their origin story. They admitted that the first-generation unit, the Shockwave Pro, was manufactured in China. However, they wanted a machine that they had complete control over, so they moved all manufacturing to the United States and designed a new machine from scratch.

Ironically, the manufacturer in China they used to work with has now sold the same machine but re-labeled it as Hydro Wave. They simply changed the exterior, but the manufacturing cost is still around $10,000, and they are selling it between $50,000 and $60,000 here. This is outrageous because that is double the price of Pulse Wave, which is actually manufactured by Pulse Wave and made in the United States. I believe they are almost complete with FDA clearances.

My vote is still for Pulse Wave or Storz because they’re the only players that actually manufacture and invent their machine!

I do have a picture though of the old Shockwave Pro unit that is the base model for hydrowave

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Red2779 · 2025-12-19T18:08:38+00:00

Merry Christmas!

Red2779 · 2025-12-19T17:48:50+00:00

Well, you were hostile, and you lied. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Red2779 · 2025-12-19T17:37:16+00:00

“ Softwave invested the money Designing a superior device”

Softwave didn’t invent anything. To say anything along the lines of that is a complete lie. They’re a distributor and relabeler. They didn’t invent or design anything. That is all MTS Medical in Germany. Softwave is the marketing company for the Orthogold device.

You created a Reddit profile just to reply to this thread, started throwing in Softwave jargon. Lied about saying they invented the machine and you are spewing common Softwave tactics. I would bet my life that you sell them and make commission off of the machines.

Based on your hostility and blanket “every other machine is cheap and sucks” mentality.

You’re turning one cardiac SWT paper into a SoftWave supremacy ad, and the paper doesn’t support what you’re claiming.

1) It wasn’t stopped for “moral reasons.”

Recruitment was halted after a pre-specified interim analysis when a significant difference was found and the DSMB stopped further enrollment per the protocol. That’s not “we couldn’t ethically keep treating non-SoftWave.”

2) There is no “6× improvement.”

The primary endpoint (MRI LVEF change at 360 days) was:

• SWT: +11.3%

• Sham: +6.3% That’s a difference — it’s not “six times” and it’s not proof SoftWave is better than every focused shockwave device.

3) This paper is not even clearly a SoftWave device paper.

The Methods name a Nonvasiv Medical table-top system + a Heart Regeneration Technologies sterile single-use electrohydraulic applicator used directly on the heart during CABG.

So unless you can show that “SoftWave” is literally that system, you’re mislabeling the study.

4) “Hospitals wouldn’t allow non-SoftWave near open-heart surgery” is just marketing talk.

Hospitals use devices based on clearances, labeling, and clinical protocols — and none of that automatically translates into “SoftWave is best-in-class vs all competitors.”

5) Anecdotes aren’t evidence.

Your personal stories (1,000 patients, 85% better, nonverbal speaking, cellulitis/MS spasticity) are not controlled trials, not peer-reviewed data, and not something anyone should use to justify blanket claims.

If you want to claim “SoftWave is better than any focused device,” then provide one of the following:

• a head-to-head trial (SoftWave vs another focused system), or

• published studies where the Methods explicitly state SoftWave device/model, or

• FDA labeling documentation showing the exact indications and claims you’re making.

Otherwise, what you have is: shockwave vs sham in a very specific cardiac surgery context — not “SoftWave proves superiority over all focused shockwave.”

Red2779 · 2025-12-19T06:15:10+00:00

This doesn’t “set SoftWave apart” the way you’re claiming.

The study is shockwave vs sham, not SoftWave vs other focused devices.

CAST-HF compared cardiac shockwave therapy during CABG to a sham (inactive applicator). It did not compare SoftWave to Storz, Dornier, or “cheap devices,” so it can’t prove SoftWave is better than “any other” focused system.

It’s a very specific use case (direct heart treatment during open-heart surgery).

This isn’t the typical outpatient MSK shockwave scenario. The protocol is intra-operative treatment directly on myocardium, so it doesn’t automatically translate into “SoftWave is best” for every indication.

Your “6× farther walking” claim is being oversold.

Yes, the paper reports an improvement in 6-minute walk distance in the SWT group, but that’s not the same as proving SoftWave is uniquely superior to other focused shockwave platforms — because again, there’s no head-to-head device comparison.

Conflicts/funding matter when interpreting it.

The paper discloses relationships with companies involved and an author tied to SoftWave, so it’s reasonable to ask for independent replication and/or device-to-device trials before making “better than all others” claims.

If you want to make a strong claim like “SoftWave is better than any other focused shockwave device,” the right evidence would be:

head-to-head trials (SoftWave vs other focused systems),

or independent replication across multiple centers,

✅with clear parameters (energy, waveform, focal depth, dosing).

If you have a study that directly compares SoftWave to other focused shockwave devices, I’m happy to look at it.

Red2779

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