Topcon, sokkia are they the same or what??
I have always run topcon surveying gear an have been considering a new conventional total station as one of mine is getting on in years, so I go the hayes instrument website(thanks for supporting s.connect) to see what is out there. I looked through conventional, robotic, and GPS gear and it seems like Topcon has died and sokkia is labeling their gear as Topcon. The new Hiper2 looks like the sokkia unit that has been out for years. The conventional “Topcon” ES and OS look like sokkia guns with Topcon colors/logos… The knobs are not on the same side of the gun as they have been and the tribrach is not even yellow?!??!? (the knobs not being in the same place is a deal breaker for me) The QS robot still looks like the 900/9000 topcons color scheme and the operation looks like traditional topcon robotics, but it is the only thing with a Topcon label that looks like a Topcon product.
So what gives? Did Sokkia buy out Topcon? How does GOWIN fit in… Their gear looks like a topcon that is grey??? Is topcon yellow a thing of the past? What happend?
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