Originally Posted by
padailey
Right now just a stop watch but a photo eye/timer/light system is being built for when we get going in the spring/summer. Basically will be green light on... cross the eye and the timer starts and turns on a red light... 10 sec later red light goes out and green light on designating the pits are open. We may at a later date put in another eye that will catch those that try to leave the pits early.
Sounds cool. Our pit timer does not have the optical eye, but we have found that having the human in to loop is an important part of the pit stop.
If you want to take a short cut, you can use our design posted on the
UF1 website.