Pit Lane Menu

Set Entrance/Exit Lines

Before you can use the Pit Lane Timing mode, you must define the entry and exit points for the pit lane.

Setting the start and end of the pit lane should ideally be done by the competitor, as the points sometimes change from meeting to meeting. Because you are going slowly at the time, you must set the entrance and exit lines for your race meeting as accurately as possible.

To define the pit entrance and exit points you must do a drive-through of the pit lane.

Note: You must drive at a speed of more than 10 km/h to be able to set the lines.

Press the OK button with the Set Entrance/Exit Lines highlighted. This will open a submenu where you can define the entrance and exit points.

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Set Pit Lane Entrance

Drive out of the pit lane, around the circuit and back into the pit lane. As you cross the pit entrance timing line, you must press the OK button to mark the entrance point. The screen will automatically move to Set Pit Lane Exit. Drive through the pit lane, and as you cross the end of the timing line, press the OK button again.

Set Pit Lane Exit

Drive through the pit lane, and as you cross the end of the timing line, press the OK button again. The pit lane entrance and exit point are now set. These values are held in memory until you visit another circuit or manually override them.

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Press the OK button with this option selected to navigate back to the Pit Lane Timing Menu.

Pit Timing Mode

This is where you set the Pit Timing Mode you wish to use.

Press the OK button with this setting highlighted to toggle between the 2 available Pit Timing Modes:

Entrance to Exit

When you are using the Entrance to Exit mode, the Minimum Pit Time setting is the minimum number of seconds required from when you cross the entrance of the pits until you cross the exit of the pits.

Stationary in Pit

When you are using the Stationary in Pit mode, the Minimum Pit Time setting is the minimum number of seconds required to be spent stationary in the pit box.

Minimum Pit Time

This setting gives you the ability to set a time value for the Minimum Pit Time.

Press the OK button to enter the value screen. Use the Up and Down buttons to increase or decrease the time value. You can set a value between 15 and 600 seconds in 0.1-second increments.

Enter the regulation minimum number of seconds spent either in the total pit lane (if you are using the Entrance To Exit mode) or stationary in the pit box (if you are using Stationary in Pit mode).

Note: This setting is used differently depending on the selected Pit Timing Mode.

Press the OK button to confirm the selected value and exit to the Pit Lane Menu.

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Pit To Exit Time

Note: This setting is only used in the Entrance to Exit mode.

When you are using Entrance To Exit mode, you must enter an estimate for the time it takes to get from your pit box to the pit exit, between 1.0 and 90.0 seconds.

This time will vary slightly every time you drive it, so this should be an approximate value.

If you decrease the Pit To Exit Time, the Pit Lane Timer will keep you in your pit box longer, making you less likely to leave the pits too early.

If you are consistently staying too long in the pits, you can increase the Pit To Exit Time to make the Pit Lane Timer release you earlier.

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Pit Lane Speed Limit

This Pit Lane Speed Limit is the maximum speed that you are allowed to travel in the pit lane. You must define the limit that has been set for your race event. If you exceed the defined speed limit by 20 km/h, the Pit Lane Timer will assume that you are staying on track and will not trigger the pit lane counter.

Press the OK button with this setting highlighted to enter the value screen. Use the Up and Down buttons to increase or decrease the speed limit to a value between 25 and 100 km/h.

Press the OK button to confirm the selected value and exit to the Pit Lane Menu.

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Speed Limit Warning

The Speed Limit Warning is the margin to the pit lane speed limit at which the driver will be warned to decrease the speed.

For example, if the Pit Lane Speed Limit is set to 40 km/h, and the Speed Limit Warning is set to 3 km/h, the Pit Lane Timer will use visual and audible alerts to warn the driver that they are close to the limit at 37 km/h.

Press the OK button with this setting highlighted to enter the value screen. Use the Up and Down buttons to increase or decrease the speed to a value between 0.0 and 10.0 km/h.

Press the OK button to confirm the selected value and exit to the Pit Lane Menu.

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Manage Pit Locations

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Track

The Pit Lane Timer will remember all the pit lane locations that you have set on it. When the unit is close to a previously set location, the points will automatically be detected and loaded as soon as the unit achieves a good satellite lock.

You can also manually ask the unit to search for Pits close to you by pressing the OK button with the Track: setting highlighted.

Note: You can find more information about how to save, rename and load pit locations on an SD card can be found here.

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Save Pit Locations to SD Card

Although all set pit locations are stored in the unit's internal memory, you may want to save the list of known tracks as a text file, either to share new locations with other drivers or just as a backup.

Press the OK button with the Save Pit Locations To SD Card option highlighted to create the file and save it on the SD card.

The file will be named PITLOCATIONS.txt. If there is already a pit location file on the SD card, the Pit Lane Timer will add a version number (the highest number indicates the latest revision available on the card).

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Clear All Pit Locations

IMPORTANT

Selecting this option will clear all stored pit lane locations from the Pit Lane Timer's internal memory. You may wish to do this if you have previously saved the file out to the SD card to add new pit lane information or edit the track names.

When new pit lane locations are added from the SD card, these will not overwrite the currently stored location but add to them. Therefore, when you are making edits it is best to clear the old list from the unit memory before you load the edited list to avoid duplications.

Press the OK button with Clear All Pit Locations highlighted to clear the pit locations.

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Load Pit Locations from SD Card

You can load a shared or edited Pit location file to add the Pit locations on it to your Pit Lane Timer's internal memory.

Make sure that the required pit location file is in the root directory on the SD Card before you insert it into the Pit Lane Timer.

Press the OK button with Load Pit Locations from the SD Card highlighted to load the pit locations from the file to your unit.

Pit Location Loading Logic

When you select to load pit locations from the SD card, the unit will apply the following logic from top to bottom:

PITLOCATIONS.txt found - rename the file to add the next available number and load the pit locations from the file.
PITLOCATIONS.txt not found - look for pitLocationIn.txt or pitIn.txt files.
pitLocationIn.txt or pitIn.txt found - load pit locations from the file.
pitLocationIn.txt or pitIn.txt not found - look for PITLOCATIONSXX.txt (XX is a number).
PITLOCATIONSXX.txt found - load pit locations from the file.
PITLOCATIONSXX.txt not found - Failed to load file.

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Back

Press the OK button with this option selected to navigate back to the Pit Lane Timing Menu.

Back

Press the OK button with this option selected to navigate back to the Main Menu.