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ffries61 wrote:

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Hey Larry, looking good, how`s your back after doing the last lane? lol.you`ll have to let us know what a good laptime is after you get your sensor harness hooked up

Tracy

It looks like 9 seconds is about normal... at least until we get some rubber laid down.

I'm having trouble with the timing though. About the only way I can get it to count a lap is to make sure I'm going slow across the sensor. It doesn't matter what car I'm running either... Slot.It, Fly, Carrera, etc... I've checked to make sure that the sensors are all the way up in the slot and they are. They are all they way up against the bottom of the braid... in others they can't go any higher. I'm thinking that since they do detect cars when going slower that means the sensors are aimed correctly... it's just a matter of the guide riding high under even very moderate acceleration. I don't have the sensors in a fast part of the track and they aren't accelerating where they are. Anybody got any ideas about what I can do short of elimating the sensor harness and going with a different type of sensor setup?

Yup it's Brents. My next step was going to e-mailing him.

The thing that's kind of worrying me is that the sensors are lower in the slot because of the braid than they would on a copper taped track. I'm afraid that is going to give me fits.

I figured out the problem with the laptimer... it was a simple setting in Lap Timer 2000. There's a setting in there for a delay with older computers that was defaulted at 10ms so that's where I left it. Once I switched that to 1ms it works perfectly.

I had a couple friends over to run tonight and after putting 2200 - 2500 laps on we have some rubber laid down... at least a good start anyway. The times got faster as we ran. Right now a good lap time is between 8.000 and 8.200 with the fastest time under 8.000. The fastest time right now is 7.647 with a heavily modified Carrera... in fact there isn't much of the Carrera running gear left