Does anyone else find it hard to lower a climber using the Edelrid Ohm? ie there is too much friction?
Trialled one at the wall recently with my relatively inexperienced partner. I am approx an additional 35% heavier than her. While she found the experience of holding falls to be much more pleasant - no more being lifted considerably in the air towards the first clipped bolt, she did struggle with lowering me.
Using a Clic-up which she is very familar with she had to hold the device fully open and even then had to hold her brake hand above the device and amost feed the rope into the device to lower me.
This was even the case on flat panel walls with no changes of angle and therefore no additional friction from rope rubbing on the wall. When routes were done on walls that had varied angles that added friction points the problem was even worse and resulted in a painfully slow decent that saw me get very dizzy as I slowly spun while hanging in space.
Given most routes at walls have less friction than outdoor routes I imagine the problem would only be even worse outside?
While we both had no issue with the device while I was leading or falling off the problems with lowering are a big put-off for such an expensive device.
Anyone else have similar observations?