Weather Station? What's the best?

[btrc]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

If you have a laptop at the track, I would recommend getting Crew Chief Pro software.
I put the data from the weather station, and use Crew Chief Pro to dial your car. Give it a few qualifying, or testing passes to learn your car. It has been almost deadly for my car.

Has not yet taught to drive. SMH

Ed, What do you mean by "learn your car"? Do you somehow tie a run to the original prediction that crew chief pro made? Or are you just looking for different prediction methods that match your car's actual runs? We are just getting started with the Crew Chief Pro and have a lot to learn.


Thanks
Bob

[Lenny5160]

Originally Posted by btrc

Ed, What do you mean by "learn your car"? Do you somehow tie a run to the original prediction that crew chief pro made? Or are you just looking for different prediction methods that match your car's actual runs? We are just getting started with the Crew Chief Pro and have a lot to learn.

Crew Chief Pro does not use a multiple run trend to predict the ET. You select a single 'base run' to predict from, and the formulas take care of the rest. As you make more runs, the software does not change at all as far as 'learning' your car.

Now, you can customize the 'factors' used in the prediction formulas and use historical run comparisons to do that. I do data analysis for a living, and have spent a bunch of time creating custom factors. However, it is extremely easy to get lost, and this season I have reverted to using the default prediction factors.

As for weather station, I was shopping a couple years ago and ended up going with the Altalab trailer station with wind and paging. It seemed like that was the top of the line at that time. I haven't regretted my decision to use the Altalab with Crew Chief Pro, but I don't have a basis for comparison to say that it is better or not as good as something else.

[Ed Wright]

Tony, the more runs I put in Crew Chief Pro, the more accurate the predictions became. Other people have told me the same. Not every car reacts the same, to the same weather changes. The hand held stations I have owned seem to assume they do.