Hi everyone,
I have worked with some lite electronics before, but now I'm probably in over my head and on the line to produce.
I am part of a Drag Boat Race Club and we are going to build a Scoreboard. It will display the ET (elapsed time) and MPH for the 2 racers running. It will be 5 ft tall and 30 ft long on a floating platform.
I have been researching using 7 segment displays and using super bright LED's. I will probably be using the Moto- 14489B IC display driver.
The company that we bought the computer from is going to supply the new code to drive the segments. But I have to get the data to the Scoreboard.
Now here is the rub. because the race takes place over 1/4 mile the Scoreboard is typically 1000 ft from the computer. I am concerned that the length of the data cable is going to degrade the signal to much.
So my question is what is the best way of sending the serial data to the controller?
Please feel free to post here or e-mail me at Bham78@aol.com.
Thanks
jim
I have worked with some lite electronics before, but now I'm probably in over my head and on the line to produce.
I am part of a Drag Boat Race Club and we are going to build a Scoreboard. It will display the ET (elapsed time) and MPH for the 2 racers running. It will be 5 ft tall and 30 ft long on a floating platform.
I have been researching using 7 segment displays and using super bright LED's. I will probably be using the Moto- 14489B IC display driver.
The company that we bought the computer from is going to supply the new code to drive the segments. But I have to get the data to the Scoreboard.
Now here is the rub. because the race takes place over 1/4 mile the Scoreboard is typically 1000 ft from the computer. I am concerned that the length of the data cable is going to degrade the signal to much.
So my question is what is the best way of sending the serial data to the controller?
Please feel free to post here or e-mail me at Bham78@aol.com.
Thanks
jim