Multiple Stations

Step 1:

You can run multiple test stations in close proximity without interference. To link a phone to a particular test station just bring the phone within a couple of inches of its S gate. The phone will switch to that station and stay linked until it goes close to another gray box. It’s not uncommon for facilities to purchase an old iPad for each test station and leave it nested between the tripod legs of each S or F gate, that allows the runner and the coach to quickly read the results.

To link a particular test station to our large display, just bring the S gate of the station that you want to display to within a feet or so to the display, it will automatically switch to that timer until you bring a different one close by.

When setting up multiple stations in lanes, it is important that the black pods are placed on the inside as shown below. This will prevent the beams of one lane from hitting the receivers on the wrong lane.

Aerial view

other advice

You have to be methodic when you turn on the systems. For 60 seconds after power-up, the F gates try to pair to any S gate in the proximity. If you turn on all the systems at the same time you may get F gates paired with some other S gate than what you intended to.  

 To fix that and get back to where each system is paired correctly, do the table-top test for each set independently. Make sure you turn off the gates on the other sets:

 https://arenagear.net/tabletop-test

Another reason you may have interference is if the infrared beams from one test station are hitting the receivers on a different test station.  The beams come out of the black boxes so when setting up make sure the black boxes are pointed toward the outside of the rink or arena and not toward another test station

On hokey you have to be mindful of the beam reflecting off the ice, to minimize that you can rotate the black boxes upwards until the gray loses the beam, then back off a little to get the beam back. Keep in mind that one test station may be able to receive an infrared beam from another by reflections on the ice or walls