I think having a "hire" charge for transponders is ok. I race occasionally at the Aylesbury club. They use AMBrc and encourage every member to buy their own. They charge to borrow a PT for racing. The hire charge will very slowly pay for the cost of buying the transponder in the first place. The lifetime for a club PT will always be lower than for one that is owned by a racer due to it constantly being plugged and unplugged.
I think charging is fair enough, and if there is no charge to "Hire" a transponder then there is no incentive to buy your own. I have just ordered one of the new PT's as the price is now right, but with the old prices it would have taken a lot of £1 per night hire charge for it to be worth me buying my own!
I have also tried using optical PT's racing at the Newbury track. This never missed a lap for me, the only problem I had was trying to get line-of-sight through a window in my XX4. Sussed it in the end though.
Ben
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