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    Yes you can from what I have read, they are available up to a 30 foot range but how would you wire them to the stopwatch? and what would you use for a delay?
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    Need Help

    I sure can, just need to know what components I need and a schematic for dummies. I've been looking online and I can't find anything simple enough for me to understand. Not sure what kind of IR sensor, or how I can make it trigger a relay or the start stop button of an electronic stopwatch. I...
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    Need Help

    Thanks so much for all the help, you guys are the best..... Not!
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    Need Help

    Can anyone here help me figure this out. Need to setup two IR beams that when broken will trigger a relay of some sort. Here is what I'm doing, trying to build a timer for a local mud truck rally. the track is setup like a drag strip and is 100 foot long. I found a setup where they used a...
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    Can this be done??? or

    got any links to how I could wire all this up? i have know idea how I would use the safety beams to trigger a relay or switch, if I could do that I could use the radios like in the video
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    Can this be done??? or

    the track is just under 200 feet, future upgrades to the track might put it around 100 feet.
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    Can this be done??? or

    Thanks so much for the reply and your time. Yes that is what I am trying to do. I would be happy with just using the wireless radios and the hand held stop watch like in the video I posted but would need to make some sort of triggers at the start line and the end of the track. In the video...
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    Can this be done??? or

    OK I have been looking around at building some kind of timer, start and stop. It's for a local Mud Truck Rally. What I was thinking of doing is using some garage door saftey beams one at each end of the track to trigger a timer or relay. I found some DOS software that uses pretty simple stuff to...

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