Hello,
Today, while timing a biathlon race with two TDC4000s, I encountered an incident I have never seen. We were doing 30 second interval starts, with the TDC autoincrementing through the start bibs and printing start times to its built in printer. At a certain point during the starts, bib 113's start did not record on the printer -
all previous bibs and all subsequent bibs did. The TDC did however receive a start impulse as reflected by the fact that it did autoincrement to bib 114, and it did print a start time along with a finish and run time when bib 113 finished. (For what it's worth, we were using two TDCs, each tied to separate Alge start gates, which
in turn are bracketed together such that they use a single wand. The start signals are received via the standard banana jack input on the back panel. The backup TDC hanled bib 113 without exception.)
I have never seen a TDC fail to print a start time, and cannot understand what might have caused it to fail to print one particular bib. I am just wondering if this might be symptomatic of some forthcoming failure which we need to be aware of. Any thoughts?
Thank You, Dale Magnant
Originally posted 22 Jan 2001 by Dale Magnant
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