A our ski club we use 5 Timy for the ski race.
We use 2 hold timy for the manual chrono
Everything has double redundancy, The start gate feeds 2 pair of wires. At the finish, we have 2 set of photocell. The chrono 1 gets the input from the start 1 and finish 1. The chrono 2 use the start 2 and finish 2.
The Backup chrono receive the info from the start 1 using a wireless TED. and the finish from the wire from the photocell 1.
The problem is to sync 2 PC and 5 Timy. Setting the time on each is quite long. we Give them the impulse from a single button that feed 5 DB25 connector.
We would like to use a GPS to feed all 5 at the sime time. We have found out that the TIMY only support GARMIN GPS because it uses a non standard NMEA instruction PGRMF proritary of garmin.
Can someone tell me why they didn't use the real NMEA Standard and the proper time of day instructions. In their instruction they say that we need a GPS that support NMEA 0183 standard with a sync pin signal at the top of the second. They never mention anything as far as supporting GARMIN Commands.
Does someone have a PC program to set the time on the PC with the GPS...
The alternate solution would be to have a PC program that send the instructions to set the time to the timy and use a CTS signal from the PC to sent the SYNC to the TiMY. Does anyone have a program to send the TIME and Date instruction from the PC to the TIMY