Electronic Time Slips

[63corvette]

[QUOTE=Jeff Stout;616471]Just posted on another thread. No timing equipment needed. Just compare your DRAGY unit with their DRAGY unit and determine winner.

Dragy uses high speed GPS satellites to accurately measure your vehicles performance within 1/100th of a second, producing identical results to the much more expensive and cumbersome VBOX system, in a less expensive and easier to use package. The Dragy software automatically charts slope on all timeslips which you can then post to forums or social media, share with friends, or even upload to the Dragy leader board. The Dragy box is extremely compact at 1" x 3" (25.4mm x 76.2mm) and can be set on the dash when testing and stored in the glove box or center console when not in use.

Just getting the time down to .01 (1/100) is not close enough to determine a winner in a race.
I have won and lost races down to the .0001 before and most time slips does not go that far into the .0001 numbers unless those are needed to determine the race.
Just My Take
Rick Cates
Canyon, TX

[Jeff Stout]

[QUOTE=63corvette;616474]

Originally Posted by Jeff Stout

Just posted on another thread. No timing equipment needed. Just compare your DRAGY unit with their DRAGY unit and determine winner.

Dragy uses high speed GPS satellites to accurately measure your vehicles performance within 1/100th of a second, producing identical results to the much more expensive and cumbersome VBOX system, in a less expensive and easier to use package. The Dragy software automatically charts slope on all timeslips which you can then post to forums or social media, share with friends, or even upload to the Dragy leader board. The Dragy box is extremely compact at 1" x 3" (25.4mm x 76.2mm) and can be set on the dash when testing and stored in the glove box or center console when not in use.

Just getting the time down to .01 (1/100) is not close enough to determine a winner in a race.
I have won and lost races down to the .0001 before and most time slips does not go that far into the .0001 numbers unless those are needed to determine the race.
Just My Take
Rick Cates
Canyon, TX

I believe it shows 4 digits over. I'm just staing it is .02 difference from track time slip. We feel because of no rollout on dragy. You move it starts timing. That would be equal 2 both cars being .02 off actual.

[Stan Weiss]

No. The difference between draggy and your time slip will vary even in the same car between shallow and deep staging. Since it sounds like draggy starts the timing and measured distance from first movement.

Stan

[63corvette]

[QUOTE=Jeff Stout;616488]

Originally Posted by 63corvette

I believe it shows 4 digits over. I'm just staing it is .02 difference from track time slip. We feel because of no rollout on dragy. You move it starts timing. That would be equal 2 both cars being .02 off actual.

The 4 digits is only on the who crossed first and 3 digits on your and their ET.
What you posted looked to me to be for your ET only to the 2nd digit and not down to the 3rd digit.
Without the reaction time included in it how would you ever decide who won?
When I started racing in the 60's the tech person at the finish line picked the winner and hand wrote the ET cards declaring the winner and pulled the ET and MPH from a readout to put on the card. I believe the system used then was called a Crondex or something like that. I remember it doing a lot of clicking when I was near it.
I still have the winning cards for all my class win trophy's long before they were Wally's.
I really am getting old.
Rick Cates
Canyon, TX

[Jeff Stout]

[QUOTE=63corvette;616504]

Originally Posted by Jeff Stout

The 4 digits is only on the who crossed first and 3 digits on your and their ET.
What you posted looked to me to be for your ET only to the 2nd digit and not down to the 3rd digit.
Without the reaction time included in it how would you ever decide who won?
When I started racing in the 60's the tech person at the finish line picked the winner and hand wrote the ET cards declaring the winner and pulled the ET and MPH from a readout to put on the card. I believe the system used then was called a Crondex or something like that. I remember it doing a lot of clicking when I was near it.
I still have the winning cards for all my class win trophy's long before they were Wally's.
I really am getting old.
Rick Cates
Canyon, TX

Your correct. I looked at my dragy log and only 2 digits to the right of decimal. I guess the point i was making is the future is around the corner for no time slip booth. Or clocks needed. Never needed to know reaction time to determine winner. Who crosses first and dont break out or least amount to break out of the 2 would decide

[Larry Hill]

Ron for those of us with app-less flip phones each reaction time will be displayed on the scoreboard on the journey to the finish line. Fair is fair.

Anybody want to buy a Gameboy....cheep?

[NHRA1926]

And you don't think someone will figure out how to cheat during the actual run, in live time, while racing down the track? Does this not concern anyone? Absolutely NOT a fan of anything like this!

[Keith 944]

Originally Posted by NHRA1926

And you don't think someone will figure out how to cheat during the actual run, in live time, while racing down the track? Does this not concern anyone? Absolutely NOT a fan of anything like this!

Yep, my point exactly