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Re: Question on Timing Equipment

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Subject: Re: Question on Timing Equipment
From: JVHT@aol.com
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 05:42:32 EST
Gustave,

Gulfcoast Autocrossers Ltd. highly recommends the following system for timing 
and scoring:

JACircuits timer <A HREF="http://www.mich.com/~jacircts/";>JACircuits Home Page
</A> 
AutoX T/S software by Rob Gregg <A HREF="http://www.autox.kawvalley.net/";>Auto
X/TS</A>
Our old TAG Heuer through beam lights work best. (still trying to find a good 
set!)


Ask your club members for any old computer systems they may have that they 
would be willing to donate to the club.  We asked our club members and ended 
up with three complete systems including printers. Any computer from 386 up 
is powerful enough to run the software.  We recommend a dot matrix printer 
for economy.  As I said above we are still looking for a good set of lights.  
At this time we don't have a particular set to recommend, but it does seem 
that through being systems work better than reflector systems.  Although you 
have the additional batteries to worry about they are able to span greater 
distances which keeps your lights out of harms way. Our old set of Tag Heuer 
through beam lights have good distance capabilities and give NO problem's.  I 
am still trying to find out if we can get newer versions of the same lights.

We recommend the software mainly for scoring and keeping yearly points 
automatically.  I do recommend that if you do go with software you have at 
least one knowledgeable computer literate person available to setup and 
train.  Once a club is trained the system its fantastic!  The only problems 
we seem to be happen at this time is with the lights (which seems to be a 
problem for most Clubs).  Also we keep a manual log at every event for backup 
and confirming times.

Feel free to ask anymore questions.

Sincerely,
John Taylor
assistant timing and scoring
webmaster at <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/jvht/gcac.html";>GCAC Website</A>

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