Testing with a brand new TAG 502 with firmware 1.8 e revealed that it will not send data to the ALGE GAZ4 circuit board used here. TAG 705 timers still send data to the displays just fine. TAG must have forgotten to add this feature to the software, or they left it out to try to promote sales of their own displays. The major attraction of this timer seems to be cost. Our customer who brought the TAG 520 over to test it left with an ALGE COMET for less.


Originally posted 16 Dec 2001 by Fred Patton

I had a very long and fruitful conversation with the staff of TAG-Heuer in Switzerland today. They were nice enough to call me to explain their policy with the 520. Last year they started manufacturing their own display scoreboards in Europe. Previously they had marketed the RRS Smart Display in Europe and RRS sold it here. The investment in manufacturing their own product required them to make it unique. This is of course a common fact of life in all aspects of our technology driven world and we at PST have nothing against it. Therefore the 520 will only send data to their HL series of displays. So there is no mixing and matching for stand
alone systems. TAG>TAG, ALGE>ALGE The only way you can use an ALGE display with the 520 is to use the timer as time base into the PC and then the PC sends data to the display.


Originally posted 20 Dec 2001