The "weapon of choice" in the sports car racing venues is the AMBTranx260,
which retails for a bit over $300, but the tracks sell at adiscount to get you
to use it, since that is what their recievers areset to use. The neat thing
about it is it immediately broadcastslap times (even if it was a 5-mile lap in
a straight line) to monitorsin the pits, TV or better yet, directly to an
event site on theinternet ( that you or anybody else can follow in real-time,
and, it isarchived for later viewing.) It has some drawbacks; Would it really
be Bonneville without Glen Barrett announcingyour times!?? I think not. Also,
Nobody could replace Amo'sdetailed blow-by-blow accounts to the
non-attendingpublic.... Oh, and did I mention, the current version of the
AMBTranx260 only times a lap to a maximum of 180 MPH???
Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary LaRonge [mailto:saltracer552@juno.com]
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 04:22 PM
To: ed@vetteracing.com
Cc: gary_ellen@msn.com, jon@infodestruction.com, Mike.Meierle@alcatel.com,
land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Timing light wires
Ed,
What is the approximate cost of a transponder? I'm not familiar with them.
Gary LaRonge
Pahrump
-- "Ed Van Scoy" <ed@vetteracing.com> wrote:
If you wanted to go wireless on the cheap, you could require each carto
have
their own transponders. A computer would take care ofidentifying 500
different
freqs...... And all of this could be set uplong prior to the meet, with
only
the "new" transponders with car infohaving to be entered at the time of the
meet. As for accuracy, if itsgood enough for F1, IRL, SCCA
etc,.......... As
for reliability, thetower could "read" the car on the start line, if they
didn't get asignal, it would probably be a dead battery in the transponder
(Commonroad-racing driver error) and you could give them the option of
gettingout of line to fix the transponder or run with no time. If they
can'tfix their unit, sell 'em another! This could be another profit
centerfor
SCTA/BNI.
Ed
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