Periodically clear Timy memory

This season's timing had been running very smoothly until about a week ago when I noticed a disruption in communication between our Alge Timy PXE and the Nastar software. We were hearing double and triple beeps from the Timy for every single impulse the Timy should have been receiving.
In addition, after a period of time operating our system, the Timy would indescriminately not register impulses from both the start and finish.
The Timy seemed to be frozen and would not even register manual starts and finishes.
Temporarily, it seemed to help by closing the dual course timing of the Nastar software and then reopening the dual course timing. But even this did not work consistently.
After speaking with Fred Patten, we have now realized the memory function of the Timy and the need to clear this database periodically. We had been starting the Timy by plugging in the external power supply, which had defaulted that startup past the backup option. Thanks Fred.
I am still hearing double and sometimes triple beeps from the timy for certain singular impulses being sent to the Timy. Is this normal?

You can get multiple impulses from the start if you are usinig a auto return gate. Sometimes it bounces a few times when it closes. You can ge multiple impulses from the finish if the beam is low and the skier drags a trail of snow behind. You can tell what you are getting multiple impulses for (start or finish) by looking at the LCD screen or tape from the timy. The software can ignore this stuff if the delay on the start and finish are set to reasonable levels. You can also set the delay higher on the TIMY for ignoring multiple starts or finishes and you can set the delay on photocells to ignore multiples. We get the multiple starts with our bouncing gates for NASTAR but it really doesnt bother me. The software still only puts one person on course.
If you do your firmware upgrades your timy will capture over 7000 impulses before becoming full. When full your timy will still print channel/time stamps for each impulse but it will stop sending data from the RS232 port. S4s will also do this when full. Clear memory regularly.

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