Steve
Any chance you can make available your
Visual Basic programme and or hardware / wiring system information. I
have been looking for a computerised race management / starting / finishing
system on and off for a couple of years, but as yet, have not found anything
which quite does what we need. We tend to stick to fairly standard ISAF
type rules for class and handicap racing, except that we start at 3 minute
intervals when we have multiple fleets. Hence would need to be able to
edit starting sequences etc without having to delve too much into programming (am
basically an idiot when it comes to programming).
Regards
Colin Davis
Staunton Harold SC
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From:
sailwave@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Willis
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005
6:26 PM
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [sailwave] Elapsed
Time Scoring
Thanks for the cautionary note Mark,
We used to do the same but I have written a Visual
Basic programme to control a relay board (with manual override
controls at 12volts if the 240 mains is lost) to do the start sequence lights
and klaxon in timed sequence and thence to count up - push one button to
do the whole start sequence. When fully operational the RO can click on a boat
number on screen to advance it by one lap or finish and it
automatically stores the intermediate/finish time. One laugh is that
it works OK at home but when I tried it at the club everything worked fine in
terms of timing and sequence - but the klaxon did not turn off !!! -
Calls from visual basic to the light relay and klaxon relay at T=0 (start)
blocked turning it off (old slow PC at the club needs replacing!).
At present we use a desktop countdown/up timer from 5
minutes and thus time for each lap and finish is elapsed time. The PC
based system will replace it when the programme is debugged and silence is
heard after the start.
Steve Willis
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark
Townsend
Sent:
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 5:22 PM
Subject:
RE: [sailwave] Elapsed Time Scoring
FYI - We avoid using
elapsed time scoring and instead record the start and finish times and allow
sailwave to calculate the elapsed time. If the RC synchronizes their watches
with a GPS you never need to worry about accidentally stopping the watch recording
the elapsed time.
Mark Townsend
From:
sailwave@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sailwave@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mal Hartland
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005
5:15 AM
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [sailwave] Elapsed
Time Scoring
On
version 1.84 (onwards) you set the default under the series options (race
scoring tab), but can then override this by editing the race by either right
clicking on the race column or within the sail number wizard - select the start
to be edited and then click edit, and amend the Finishes to be recorded as drop
down box.
This
is also where you find the information for the course, wind strength etc that
used to be seen on the front sheet when editing a race.
I
hope that this helps.
Regards
Mal
From: “Steve Willis”
swillis@me139ty.fsnet.co.uk
Reply-To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [sailwave] Elapsed Time Scoring
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:02:55 -0000
Mike,
Many thanks for this very quick response and helpful
advice. I will try that out tonight.
Regards
Steve Willis
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Croker
Sent:
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 8:37 AM
Subject:
Re: [sailwave] Elapsed Time Scoring
for v1.57:
* Edit Scoring System
* Race Scoring
* change Finishes to Finish Time
You can also right click individual race column headers to do this, and
set up the race start times, on a race-by-race basis.
Mike Croker
LancingSC
seasaltersailing wrote:
>Most of our races are to be entered giving elapsed time for each
>competitor (only pursuit races are to be entered as a place). I find
>that for each competitor I have to click on the elapsed time button
>before entering the time in the box - a pain if you forget because
>when you try scoring the system comes back and says there is a
>mismatch but not where!
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>Is there any way to set the radio buttons to elapsed time as a default?
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