Dynomike and Skillets excellent timing adventure

Ain’t it crazy how a cars performance changes at different tracks.  Sometimes a car that’s screaming at one track will be a dud at another or one that’s just running so-so really wakes up at a certain track.

Traction, power supply, rail night and of course car set up play important roles.  It seems that some tracks have higher magnetic attraction.  Probably due to rail height, width or material.  There are certain tracks that I will raise the traction magnets up higher.  I seem to recall that in one instance that a car that ran well at home had its fixed traction magnets dragging the rails at another.

I'm still running mine as a direct hook up Gale. Just in all my investigation I learned the mega could go wireless. Not that I want wireless but it sure had me thinking that was part of the problem.

I tried unhooked the computer from arduino and it doesn't work so there has to be a place to set the blue tooth. Im not going to look for it. I just wanted to see if it was hooking up automatically.

From my understanding (which doesn't say much) I believe that Debounce us actually controls those pull ups i was looking for.

What happens is when your car is not on the sensor. It is a open circuit. Being open lets run off energy inter the wire and the arduino will sometimes pick that up. By turning up Debounce us (putting power to pullup) puts a small load of power on the open side of the wire going to arduino. Not enough power to set it off but let's arduino know there is a value to look for. Well the value is higher than run of energy, so even though the arduino is still getting the run off energy its value is not high enough to set anything off.

So I'd say yes gale turn it up.you can always put it back easily enough.

I could be totally wrong in how I'm wording it but im going with it.

Now I'm wondering what would be to high of a Debounce us. I messed around for hours after it was working and at 232 Debounce us I haven't seen a hic up. I didn't see anywhere that told me to set it there, I just randomly put in a number to see.

I think I was dreaming about that purple chevy when it was at Gales last night.i can't remember if I broke it in before I sent it in. I know I had stuck new brushes in it. Maybe they weren't seated because the more I run it the better times its getting.

Hoping when I get a new dragstrip our times come in a little closer. I imagine over time even if they're not close one will be able to adjust their time to another track in preparation for a race.

I did give myself another question last night. As far as us staging cars for a race. Are we lining up the front nose of the car or front tire to front tire or back tire to back tire ?

I know you wanted me to talk with those guys on that other site Mike but im way to dumb to speak their language. Everytime I looked in there my head was spinning with them rewriting code. I may still break down and ask them how we do sound.

The thing i like about Dave of race coordinator is he is very quick to respond. Somewhere early on there was a wish list and a to do list. Do you have race coordinator for the road course. I have a small 4 lane road course and i plan to use race coordinator for it. It does have sound for start and lap counting i think. You only need 4 sensors
and a unio.

As far as sound the guy said its on the to do list so no sound for now.

I only have limited heat where my track is located in my garage. It has been really cold here along with 11" of snow, so i haven't messed with the track much. It is 60 degrees here today,so i plan to get back with the program. Were you able to send a email or video to drc with a descripion of your weird numbers every so often?