The MTB Downhill race I am reluctantly timing this weekend has a Tag Clock and I am hoping to use it to display Down Hill run Times from a Timy in stopwatch program. Any advice or experience on this one?

The TAG displays operate at 9600 baud. You might be able to crank up the baud rate on the TIMY and it might work. The data string is different though so don't get your hopes up.

If you cant get the TAG display to fire (I doubt it will also), an option would be to feed the display data from the TIMY to a computer running GAZEM, the GAZ Emulator program from Skunkware. This could be placed in front of an announcer for broadcast over the PA system.

This is about what I expected to hear. If I was using TT ware I supose I could do a lot of things better but no love. Using Excell to enter elapsed times from the timy. I thought Gazem only worked with TT ware so I don't think that will work either maybe I could use Com to File the same way.

GAZEM will work directly from the TIMY, if you are using stopwatch or another program that will produce net times. Unless you are using the timy to get starts from impulses you will have a bit of work plugging in all of the start times manually. I keep asking ALGE for start TOD import via Com to file but it has not happened yet.

If you are only using the TIMY at the finish to grab TOD finishes and plug them into your spreadsheet I would definatly recomend using Com to File and a lookup formula to get your spreadsheet to fill in for you. In backup program any display is worthless, without software that is.

John My spreadsheet uses a lookup table where I input the bib number and enter the time. If I can get the spreadsheet to read the table direct from the timy in com to file I might avoid some input errors. Thanks for the ideas assuming I fail at getting the Tag display to work. All the displays use BODET numbers but nobody's interface boards talk across timers. Seems cheeper to build dispays with a ribbon cable and a plug in controller. The AlGE, Tag, and chronomix all use the same number cells.

Regretably TAG uses a custom BODET driver card. We had a customer that was using Split Second software to drive their TAG display. It never worked right and they were frustrated. We tried to to turn it into an ALGE by swapping circuit boards years ago. TAG made sure that you could not do that by using the custom connections. They only way we could have done so would be to have swapped all of the digits as well. Pretty expensive fix. TT*ware never tried to drive TAG displays because of all the problems and issues that other software developers had faced.