Doesn't ski racing time to the hundredth not thousandth like we do?
Matt Murray
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mailto:mdmurray@gwns.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Pozner <AlanP@identicard.com>
To: 'Mark J. Andy' <marka@telerama.com>; autox mailing list
<autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 4:26 PM
Subject: RE: Autocross Timing/Scoring Software (and hardware?)
>There is a "box" that already does this. Its the TAG CP-505. Its just
a very
>accurate, triggerable clock. When a timing light is broken its sends
the
>time of day and the trigger number down the wire to the serial port.
I use
>this unit in my system and let the computer decide which car its
assigned to
>etc etc. Seems to work pretty well. It's battery operated ( 4AA last
a
>minimum of 18 hours; although for divisionals I was replacing them
between
>heats ) and is rated very accurate at any normal temp and humidity
I don't
>have the numbers in front of me here ) It also has a built-in heater
for
>those winter Ice auto crosses ( TAG Heuer designed the thing for ski
racing
>)
>
>Regards,
>Alan Pozner
>
>
>
>On Friday, October 01, 1999 1:18 PM, Mark J. Andy
[SMTP:marka@telerama.com]
>wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 GSMnow@aol.com wrote:
>> > (1) do you want "the box" to give a complete time for each car,
OR give
>an
>> > absolute time of every start and finish?
>>
>> With the large caveat that I'm not planning on writing any scoring
>> software and won't be any time soon, I'd prefer to see the absolute
time
>> of every start and finish. Otherwise the box needs to know how
many cars
>> are on course, be kept in synch, etc. etc. etc. The host pc is
good at
>> that stuff. Making the box good at it will be redundent and
annoying.
>>
>> The only caveat with that is that you can't run in stand alone mode
(in
>> the event of host computer failure). To do that, you'd need a bank
of 8
>> segment LEDS and a reset switch. If that were cheap, I'd say to
add it
>> (one car at a time, etc. etc. Super simple fallback "only to be
used if
>> absolutely required" etc.). If it weren't cheap, then I could
probably
>> accept that my computer has to work for the system to work.
>>
>> Mark
>
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