Here's one for you techno boffins out there. Sitting at home is a envelopes for both the FLM 1/2 and Reading 1/2 marathons. Both with similar looking timing chips in them. What happens if I take the wrong one to the race this Saturday and how do they work?
Also an after thought, are they really worth £10 a piece, must be millions of them out there.
Cheers, M.
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I guess if you take the wrong one then it would either think you were another runne with a different number, or possibly if the signal includes more info then might recognise that it wasn't a chip for the race in question.
I know they are loaded with info before the race, I remember them feeding it in at the FLM exhibition the other year, plus some people buy their own chips.
They have a unique ID that is picked up by sensors around the course (Normally mats) that relay the info to a computer that holds the info that relates to that ID
Simple systems just contain a number which is linked up to your identity on a computer somewhere. More expensive systems do use more complicated chips to contain more information.
Certainly picking up the wrong chip would cause problems.
They have a unique ID that is picked up by sensors around the course (Normally mats) that relay the info to a computer that holds the info that relates to that ID
HEY THIS MESSAGE IS REPLACING OTHERS
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Picked up the URL though, thanks.
Seems to be a Friday feature at the moment.
Sorry guys
Sean, RW
Venom had a nice link. Maybe if we ask him nicely he'll repost.
(Got me, now were's those glasses.)
Link was www.championchip.com by the way.
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<<meerkat wrings her hands and warbles plaintively>>
Bugger, that's ruined my race strategy for the FLM.
FLM2000 not one timing mat registered my progress and therefore I was not in the official results. It was not until I received the photo's 6 weeks later along with finishers certificate that I could prove that I competed.