Hard-wired transponders

[Doxgon22]

So I spoke to the folks at Westhold yesterday, and I was talked down off the ledge a bit.  As long as you DO NOT mount the hard-wired transponder VERTICALLY, like the battery-powered ones, it will be okay.  Yes, the antenna in on the top of the circuit board, but it will broadcast thruough the pc board itself.  They just don't think it will do well if broadcasting horizontally across the track, since the pickup is in the track surface.  And, yes, the hard-wired unit was designed for cars.  What a surprise.  It will be interesting to see if it will work as I now believe, or if I will have to fabricate something trick to make it work.  I have already started designing a bracket made of plastic to be mounted inside the nose fairing of my Ninja 300, just in case.

[dpelt73]

this is what I did with mine.



plugs into the headlight wiring.


and my buddy on his cbr500

[clarustnb]

Wow... That's a lot of safety wire...

[shagzomatic]

FWIW... I bought one of the hard wire units when I started racing in July. I'm also one of those people who sometimes doesn't pay a whole lot of attention to instructions, so I mounted mine on the fork leg just like the battery-powered units.  I had zero issues with it getting picked up in the three rounds I did at Blackhawk.

[LWT Racer]

Are zip ties so 2014 or something?

[Doxgon22]

That's good information, Bryan, because that is the one thing they told me not to do.  On the other hand, Eric Kelcher said the hard-wired unit has something like ten times the signal strength of the battery-powered unit, so I can believe it.

[ymracing]

Those BMW guys are like that!