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When the opponent’s top yellow light comes on the button is released the Crossover time starts counting down. When the Crossover
time reaches zero the Transbrake is released and the words “Transbrake On” are removed from the display. When it is desirable to go
off your top yellow, set the Dial-ins to the same number. When the Elite 500 does the subtraction of Your Dial-in time from Their
Dial-in time the difference will be zero. This result is then added to Delay 1 but because the added value was zero only the Delay 1
time will be used as the delay amount for the Transbrake.
The Elite 500 also allows a second hit at the tree. This is where the Delay 2 time is used. Depending on the Push-button
Mode, the second hit at the tree can be done with the same button connected to P.B. 1 or a second push-button connected to P.B. 2.,
this is explained in
Understanding the Push-button Modes
. The Delay 2 time is usually set so that the second hit at the tree is on your
top yellow. The Delay 2 time can be used even if the main Crossover delay is not being used, however this is not recommended.
For this example of two hits at the tree, two buttons are used and the Push-button Mode is set to two. The vehicle would be
staged and both push-buttons would be pressed and held. This would engage the Transbrake and the words “Transbrake On” would
be displayed on the screen. When the opponent’s top yellow light comes on the button connected to P.B. 1 would be released. This
would start the countdown of the Crossover time. Then when your top yellow light comes on the push-button connected to P.B.2
would be released. This would start the count down of the Delay 2 time. When either the Crossover time or the Delay 2 time reaches
zero the Transbrake is released and the words “Transbrake On” are removed from the display. If the two times do not reach zero at
the same time a new How Late time is generated and stored in memory. The How Late time is displayed on line 2 of Screen 2 and is
explained in
Understanding the How Late
.
Note:
No
Delay Box
including the Elite 500 can tell which hit at the tree is better, only which hit at the tree reached
zero first. This means that if the first release on the opponent’s top yellow was a perfect light and the second release on your
top yellow was red, you will red light.
Understanding the Tap-Up and Tap-Down Feature
This improved feature of the Elite 500 allows the driver to Tap Up and Tap Down on the same pass. The tap information
displayed is made up of two parts separated by a blank space. The left most digit shows the Tap count or the number of times the Tap
push-button was pressed. The two right hand digits show the programmable time (0 to 99 thousandths of a second) to be subtracted
from or added to the delay time every time the Tap-Up or Tap-Down push-button is pressed. For this example the Elite 500 is in Tap-
Down mode with a Tap amount of .010 seconds and set in Push-button Mode 1 with one second of delay for Delay 1. If after the
push-button connected to P.B. 1 is released and before the Transbrake releases, every time the push-button connected to the Tap
terminal is pressed and released .01 seconds will be subtracted from the Delay time. Assuming the Tap push-button was pressed
twice, the total amount of delay time the box would count down before releasing the Transbrake would be shortened to .980 seconds.
Then after the pass when viewing the Tap information the numbers 2 .10 would be displayed on the Tap line. With the left digit
indicating the Tap push-button was pressed twice and the two right digits showing the amount of time subtracted for each press of the
button.
N
OTE:
When taking two hits at the tree the Tap will only affect the Delay that is started first.
Both the How Late and Tap information are stored in memory until either a new How Late or Tap count replaces the
old one or the Clear is pressed and released will the selection arrows are on line 3 of Screen 2.
Understanding the How Late
To display the How Late information, repeatedly press the Set Up key until the text “
How Late
” is displayed on the left side
of line 3. When taking two hits at the tree, the How Late feature of the Elite 500 will display which hit at the tree was used to release
the Transbrake. Displaying a 1 in the left digit means delay 1 was used, displaying a 2 means delay 2 was used. The remaining digits
are used to display the How Late time. For example if the number displayed is “2.012” the left most digit indicates that Delay 2 was
used to release the Transbrake and that Delay 1 would have released .012 seconds later. This means if your reaction time was .510 on
the time slip, add the How Late time of .012 to the .510 for a total reaction time of .522 on the crossover delay.