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quote:Originally posted by JamesM:
Here are some stupid questions and observations:
When the three years comes around do the chips just stop, do they get flakey like heart rate transponders, or do they send out a help change my battery tansmission.
What would happen in a race when the chips get to flakey age ? Can you change the battries?
The transponder in a champion chip chip is just a TI RF chip that came out many years ago. They are dirt cheep. You can get them by the barrel full. I am not sure why people are still paying so much for them. All it is is a dirt cheep transponder that has been embeded in a plastic blob with wings. It seems that the only thing that could possibly be paintented by CC is the mats and the blob because TI owns the chip. So get some chips and make your own plastic blobs. Would reduce the cost of chips no end.
The parking structure by the start of one of our races uses the same IT chip in its parking token system. Go in, machine spits out a chip embedied in mini hocky puck. Check out, it eats the puck and calculates the time diffrence.
Run a race with hocky puck in pocket and the timing man about has a heart attack because there are hundreds of finish times with no runner name attached to that chip ID !