Originally Posted by
trailranger
A company just needs to make a "cheaper" RF scoring system.
Antenna Loop: 75 Ohm Coax and 300 Ohm loop. Simple off the shelf products so tracks can install several loops just by calling Larry the Cable Guy.
Decoder box: Simple RF to USB interfaces. Adustible signal gain, Sector Loop inputs!
PTX's: Every PTX is the same. When you buy it, you login online and regisiter your PTX and USB flash your UNIQUE PTX number on to it. No need for clones, no need for having to remember what PTX # was in what car. All you cars have the same number. When you sell your PTX to friend, they can flash their number into the PTX.
House TXs: Every TX the same. The track can USB flash any number 1~99 into the TX so if they lose or break a TX a spare can be replace it without then need of a special order.
Software: Just need to Add sector timing and simultanous racing classes to the software. GTP and GT would love that.
"PTX's: Every PTX is the same."
Knew we were improving on the existing AMB transponders, making advances with transponder designs etc.. didn't realise our PTX transponder name was now used to replace the AMB 'PT' name
Agreed a company just needs to make a cheaper system (it's not RF though, it's magnetic induction) you're obviously ahead of us.. the ideas are good, we're already planning for the 'universal transponder' and other new developments to move lap timing/scoring forward with some really neat ideas for the future.
The main objective is making any new system affordable and flexible, and the transponders cheap, that's the top priority. The biggest problem is the fact that clubs are already heavily invested and locked-in with the systems they use now. It's certainly not easy, but not impossible to overcome the difficulties.. more good ideas and some clever thinking is still needed!
