I installed this today, it was a gift from another slotter. I am having issues with it counting laps every time a car crosses the dead strip, sometimes it does OK, sometimes it won't count at all. It is clean and I cleaned the brushes on the cars. It has directional arrows on th sensor tracks. I have them installed backwards according to the arrows on the track, but that is the only way they hook up to the counters in the order I want. In the directions (on line) it says something about cars only running one direction if you use a sensor track:
TRACK: Let you connect the sensor for lane 1 and 2, different options are
available: dead strip (available on most track systems, only 1 direction of running), infrared
bridges (available on most track systems and for 2,4,6, and 8 lanes and works in both ways
of running).
I can't grasp the idea that car direction makes any difference for a dead strip in your track, but maybe this stuff is not as simple as I think it is. Anybody think car direction actually makes a difference with the dead strips. The strips are about 3 inches long and the friend bought them. I guess they worked OK for him.
Is it possible I need to rewire the dead strips for the opposite direct and for the counters I want them to feed?
mattb