FAQ Question
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| Why do Speedlight gates have two light beam sensors? |
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| I am having trouble aligning my Timing Gates. |
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| Does it matter which socket I plug the cables into on the back of the Speedlight Gate? |
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| How long will the battery last? |
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| What if I lose my battery charger. What else can i use? |
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| What is the life of a battery in a Speedlight Timing Module? |
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FAQ Answer
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| Why do Speedlight gates have two light beam sensors? |
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| Thorough testing by our research and development personnel demonstrates that a single beam system can be triggered early by a swinging arm, and may produce individual errors up to 80mS, and mean errors in the vicinity of 13mS. Investigation has proven that a three-beam system is not necessary, as accuracy improvement is less than the system resolution of 10mS. The Swift dual beam System requires the athlete's torso to break the beam thus triggering the system, eliminating error and standardising all test results.
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| I am having trouble aligning my Timing Gates. |
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| First, check that the gate is turned on. look into the photocells themselves and you will be able to see the red lights.
Be aware that on early Swift Dual beam gates the little red indicator LEDS are ON when gates are aligned. On later systems , the little red LEDs are EXTINGUISHED when the gates are aligned.
Also be aware that although you may have a message saying Gates OK on your Speedlight Timing module, you must also be sure that there are no buzzers sounding on the gates. If a buzzer is sounding it means that at least ONE beam on a gate is not aligned.
Always align by adjusting from the gate , not the reflector. |
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| Does it matter which socket I plug the cables into on the back of the Speedlight Gate? |
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| No. Both connection sockets are identical. |
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| How long will the battery last? |
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| This depends on many things.
If you had 4 x Dual beam gates powered up, and the timing module actually timing, a fully charged battery will last approx 7 hrs.
But, if you consider that the Speedlight timing module disconnects power the gates between events, then power is really only being used in significant amounts when an event is being run.
i.e. you could time @10sec we have 60sec/min x 60min/hr x 7 hrs = 25200 seconds. This equals 2520, 10 second sprints (in theory anyway!!)....you'd run out of daylight first! |
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| What if I lose my battery charger. What else can i use? |
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| There are several parameters to be met.
18V DC regulated
Min 500mA output
2.5mm DC plug with CENTRE NEGATIVE. |
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| What is the life of a battery in a Speedlight Timing Module? |
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| Approx 3 years. Maybe 2 years depending on usage.
This cannot be gauranteed due to variabilties in the way and frequency people recharge their batteries. |
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