Here's a flyer!!

Count me in Tim. Time to dust off the old fgx and give it a good tune up!

I'll have a second McLaren Honda chassis to run the series, anyone interested? I already have a few names on my short list for a driving test. Let me know if you're interested, I can arrange a test session.

Tim Ski

oh oh oh me me me!!!!

What do you guys use to time your pit stops?

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.

How does this work if a second car comes in a few seconds later? Or do you only pit one car at a time?

One car at a time... so if you come in while someone is in the pits you'll have to go around and re-pit.

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.

Guys, if we decide to build this pit box for our local racing, let me know. I can help with the Arduino part since I have experience with that.

Thats what was thinking to Visal it would be a pretty simple sketch

The sketch is posted on the web site.....

My idea came from trying to eliminate the need for a human in the loop. Probably why we stopped using pit stops for club racing because of the lack of marshalls. UF1 series that may or may not be a problem and we may have one there anyway. But I'm curious why you've found a human in the loop is important?

I'm a little out of the loop as to exactly what is being done because we've gone to plan B. Plan A was to use an on delay timer with a photo eye. But I would have had to buy most of it and Bernie came up with some old boards and such at work that we could use so it is obviously cheaper and will accomplish the same results.

Actually it would be real simple without any human interaction. You have a an optical eye or any sort of sensor once the sensor is armed the led goes from green to red for a certain amount of time and resets. If you use a msp430 it would be even cheaper. I have a guy that has all the parts needed and could do it all for free if needed. Parts included. Just let me know.

Our plan does not have human interaction. I was asking 240Z why they were finding human interaction important.

As far as I know everything is going forward and they have everything needed but the lights and a box (which we intend to build) to put everything in. Like I said I'm not horribly involved anymore since my idea is no longer being used. I just know about it because I approached Tim with the idea.

So your offer is appreciated and sounds like you could get it done and cheap. I'm just not the one to say go ahead and build it. We could always have one for Omaha and one for Lincoln though.