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As most of you know there have been issues with Race Coordinator on some of our tracks, Mine, Al's, Montes, Howies, ect.

Some of these have been fixed by switching to Trackmate hardware.

My issue wasn't loss of power like the others, Mine would go to a blue screen and having to restart the PC. Sometimes this would happen while idle, most of the time it was when adding racers or setting up a race.
I took the PC down to the local guru in town  He checked it out and told me there was nothing wrong with the unit and it was probably something in the digital download. His suggestion was to remove the program and install it again.
I did this repeatedly to no good affect. 
  Monte and Al set up my timing system while I was recovering from my stroke so my awareness was somewhat limited, but since I had no wifi or internet downstairs at the time we downloaded the program on the PC upstairs and put it on a memory stick to transfer to the race PC.
  After adding Wifi downstairs I had never tried a direct download to the race PC. That was the trick, in my case it has worked flawlessly since. I think part of the program is getting corrupted in the memory stick transfer.

Just an FYI for those of you who are wanting to set up a timing system at home.

I received a box of proxy cars today.

These are Nascar cars divided into 2 groups, COT which is open to all makes, have an open motor, and pods with after market chassis are allowed.

The other is Winston Cup which is made up of Scalextric '80s Monte Carlos and Thunderbirds. These car run stock chassis and either H&R, Piranha, or Predator 18K motors.

I'm here every day, I'm open to a weeknight (even # Thursday) or a weekend time to run these. Chime in here and let me know what works and I'll come up with something that works for the most volunteers. 

Thanks, I'll try to qualify these cars tomorrow.

Finally after a couple of years of my timing system not controlling power it's fixed. I had it working with UR but at some point The computer stopped seeing it so I reverted to Race Coordinator. It would count laps but not interface with the relay that shuts off the track.
  Over a year ago I bought the Trackmate hardware and started the installation, actually I prepared the present wiring to make installation easier but somewhere I got distracted and never finished.
  So a couple of days ago Al came over and we crawled under the track and finished the installation. I also downloaded the Trackmate software and have run several mock races and practice sessions. It appears to be working flawlessly.
  So by the next NASTE race we'll be ready.

Also sometime later this month (August) I'll be receiving the DeVols NASCAR proxy cars in the mail and will be looking for a group of racers to run those.  We don't race NASCAR here as a group but these guys build some quick smooth cars. I entered a car a couple of years ago.
  It was fast and smooth and managed to finish last in every race.
  In my defense, I had never built a car for an oval track (all they ran that year) and while the other cars weighed 95 grams, mine was 130. So you learn and move on.