[CMOTD]

Sadly and very unusual, though for some reason I am getting no replies to my emails from either Daniel at Trackmate nor Steve? from RC which is actually pissing me off considerably. Businesses are quick to take my money, provide 2/3rds of the order and then proceed to ignore my communications, grrr  bad business in my view, oh well I shall wait another three days and resend the emails

It is Dave at RC and I have never known him to ignore any email request. He has not been active on SFI for a little while so may be on holiday or not well.

[Johnno]

Sadly and very unusual, though for some reason I am getting no replies to my emails from either Daniel at Trackmate nor Steve? from RC which is actually pissing me off considerably. Businesses are quick to take my money, provide 2/3rds of the order and then proceed to ignore my communications, grrr  bad business in my view, oh well I shall wait another three days and resend the emails

It is Dave at RC and I have never known him to ignore any email request. He has not been active on SFI for a little while so may be on holiday or not well.

Yes as I said unusual for no replies to email is why I said I'd wait a few more days before resending. I am putting some of the delays down to the covid on-goings over there.

[Johnno]

Well, I've had the need to setup RC to use three out of four lanes on my track due to only four racers attending and I have to say, the setup was blindingly easy and RC worked faultlessly. 

Setting RC up this way also allows you to ditch any lane that you want, for me it was the yellow lane, which is has the nastiest corners out of all four lanes.

The feedback from the guys that raced was they were impressed with it

[slotloco]

I was just reading through this thread Johnno and Woodcote, and I was curious about whether you ever received a reply from Daniel, 
but I also wanted to correct an error -  "Debounce" in the Trackmate software, has nothing to do with minimum lap times.


Debounce is related to the polling of the sensor by the software. It is a setting in the software installation.
When people are using photo-sensors, I usually tell them to leave it at 1, but if they have a problem with reliability, switch to 3 (Options are 1-4)
For Dead strip use, 1 will always work.

Minimum lap time is in the Options menu, and simply expressed in seconds to 2 decimal places.


It goes without saying, that if you have the minimum lap time set too high, (default is 1.8 seconds), you will miss laps,
and get a loud buzz warning sound each time the lap sensors receive a trigger under that minimum time.
(But I said it anyway :)  )
That options screen above is where you set everything up that will make the software work the way YOU want it to.
In our club we run auto-advance/rotation to keep guys on point - and still sometimes have to pause the rotation...
We use something like 25 seconds till rotation so drivers and check what they did in a heat, then 45 seconds after
rotation, to get themselves stickered up and ready to go again.

We use F1 countdown and about 1 second coast time at the end of heats. That prevents any dispute of whether a lap
was counted at the end of a heat if the car is still moving and goes under the light gantry after "Heat Over".

For people's general help, I have a Quick Setup Guide available for free download.
With this most people can get a system up and running after hardware install, in about 5 minutes.