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Reply to "Optical fibre for starts"

Thank you for contributing to the forum! I believe that people are not looking at the best and legal method of using optical fibre. Everyone seems to be focused on transmitting impulses as opposed to data. Why not just adopt the current rules for wireless timing and use fiber instead.

All you need is a serial>udp converter such as a Moxa to take the data from any brand of timer and send it down the fiber to software doing the time calculations. Or you could use a timer such as a CP 545 that has the Ethernet built in. Assign different ports to the timing locations and make it all work.

These converters work happily on DC voltage and it would not be difficult to create a combination battery- carry case- timer in a Pelican or similar plastic case. 

 

 

 

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