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Originally Posted by mark christopher
nearly chalky, your cars electrics can not tramsmit data to an external source, it does not specify its to the driver/pitman etc.
ROb does it transmit via radio waves or wireless signal??
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"Harry also sends its operating voltage and temperature as part of the ID"
Transponders are a Radio Frequency ID device, so its transmitted by radio waves.
If yours cars electrics are not allowed to transmit data by radio waves, then essentially our current PT's are illegal (your PT is part of your car electrics and the ID number is data).
Unless your pitman assembles his own loop over/under the track and invests 2K in a decoder kit then the information is only available to race control.
I suppose the usefulness of this is for investigating miss counts / duff transponders, especially for the 1 cell lipo racers. Race control will be able to tell if miscounts are being caused by low voltage to transponder - normally caused by fatigued wire, or in the case of 1 cell lipo could be BEC voltage dip.
Being able to read voltage with lap counts would be really great for handout transponders as you could monitor for a transponder with a battery on its way out. So substitute it before it goes duff in somebodies race.
All good if the price really is going to be half!
