Points #2 2012 post script

[EvoLady]

try if you must.

[HPEVOX]

I did a LOT of cooking in the off season to prepare for this year Heath....

You're the devil lol I went ahead and knocked C off his high horse. It's only a matter of time before you and Matt get bumped down

[TouringBubble]

Agreed. We are heading in the right direction.

[Erv]

You know I am willing to help. I still feel the event ran rather trouble free

[TouringBubble]

I think the lights were fine Mark. But yeah, we need to try to isolate the issues and work them out. John wanted to meet up and work on a BMW soon, so maybe I can get the lights from him at that time and try to work out some issues before the May event. I'll likely ask Ervin to help so we can work on all concerns.

[e30Racer]

From what I understand, issues should happen with the lights when the sun is low in the sky due to the angle of reflections that result. Changing lights should not matter in that regard.

But, all we know for sure is that we have intermittent issues. Red cars break the timing board, shiny cars and sunlight reflect funny and case the lights to not trip, and there is a weak signal getting to the trailer. Let's aim to address all of these to be sure we have solid events in the future.

Lights or wireless transmitter? The lights take three AA batteries and we have always changed them every other event. The wireless transmitter has a large watch type battery in it that should be change yearly.

Then we have a bigger problem. The receiver was only getting about 2 bars signal from the transmitter at finish. Something is screwing up the signal if it's not the batteries. Is that the one that's missing the screw on the bottom? Any chance the internal antenna connection could have been compromised? We might need to look the transmitters over before the next event.

Let me clarify! I only changed the batteries in the wireless transmitters. I did not change the ones in the lights. So that is something to address. We will move the trailer closer to see if that helps in getting the signal as well. And the one with the screw missing could have an issue. That one has had wires re-soldered in it to take care of it not getting power from the battery. But we did not address any other issues because we didn't see anything other problems.

The good thing is we are working out the system and getting issues figured out. Progress is good!

[JohnW8]

I had a great time, but not great enough to overtake Bobby Lyle for the CSP win. Congrats to Lyle and Darryl for some very good times on course. I wish we had access to a parking lot sweeper to get the grit off the course instead of just blowing it out of the way. By the time the afternoon sessions came about you could see the line and if you got off it just a bit you were in fresh grit. Argh, snagged a grit again 2 DNFs!!

Casey co drove my car and showed some remarkable car handling skills, places where I would gave it up and took a DNF, he flicked and wiggled and saved it. It was fun to watch. Unfortunately, I had lots of cone marks to wash off on Sunday.

Thanks to the HSV folks for coming down and embarrassing us on our own turf.
Many of you have really stepped up your game! Good job!

Thanks to everyone that had a hand in setting up the course, it was my first so I was open to opinions and ideas. The first half remained pretty close to the original design but the 2nd half was opened up by Clay McCool since he thought 13 C-boxes coming back was too Chicago for Pelham. Lane changes and deceptive slaloms really sped things up.
Clay is a really bad influence that I'm glad came out to play Saturday. Thanks!

Well run event.
Good Job ALSCCA!!

PS: The truck needs some love.

[TouringBubble]

the reason I say the lights need to be shrouded is while there was a constant light(cloudy, sunny) they ran fine, but, whenever the sun ducked behind the clouds there was a rerun to be had, same goes for when the sun came out from behind the clouds.

From what I understand, issues should happen with the lights when the sun is low in the sky due to the angle of reflections that result. Changing lights should not matter in that regard.

But, all we know for sure is that we have intermittent issues. Red cars break the timing board, shiny cars and sunlight reflect funny and case the lights to not trip, and there is a weak signal getting to the trailer. Let's aim to address all of these to be sure we have solid events in the future.

[EvoLady]

We guys just have a mutual agreement to let her win and us just compete a few seconds behind with one another..... that's all. How she go so fast??

I did a LOT of cooking in the off season to prepare for this year Heath....

[EvoLady]

GREAT event! I got faster because I now have way more hp thanks to C for letting me co-drive. Great job done by all the novice, hopefully you guys will bring a friend next event. Thanks to the setup crew, the event went smooth and the course was AWESOME.

If you need more car time come out to the time trial this weekend and get some worker laps and free passes to future autox events.

[Erv]

the reason I say the lights need to be shrouded is while there was a constant light(cloudy, sunny) they ran fine, but, whenever the sun ducked behind the clouds there was a rerun to be had, same goes for when the sun came out from behind the clouds.

[TouringBubble]

Then we have a bigger problem. The receiver was only getting about 2 bars signal from the transmitter at finish. Something is screwing up the signal if it's not the batteries. Is that the one that's missing the screw on the bottom? Any chance the internal antenna connection could have been compromised? We might need to look the transmitters over before the next event.

[kilgojr]

Lights or wireless transmitter? The lights take three AA batteries and we have always changed them every other event. The wireless transmitter has a large watch type battery in it that should be change yearly.

both were changed before the event so that we could make sure that everything was brand new.

[zukitek]

sounds like I missed one heckuva event. I had to work yesterday and I had the usual married man easter assignments today . Wish I could have been there !!!

[jeallen]

Just adding my 2 cents, I thought the course was excellent, fun and challenging. Great job John W, props to all involved!