Originally Posted by chevyfireball
Delay boxes are illegal in NZ. Tell me... how can it help you. Don't you have to release the transbrake on the first orange. So if you red light on the third, won't you still do that?
Leaving off the top amber is called leaving on a clean tree. Anytime you leave off the bottom amber you have a chance of anticipating the light. Meaning your consistantency would be down. Always more consistant to leave on a clean tree. Chevyfireball to answer your question, with a delay box you can put in the amount of time it takes for the first bulb to come on until the last bulb comes on. I run 1.145 delay in my box to get a .505 light. If I go red say -.009 I would add .014 to my box. Thats .505-.491, which is the true light of a .009 red, anyway that would be .014 making my new delay now in my box a 1.159.
The crosstalk mode gives a big advantage to the faster car because now he has a clean tree because both top bulbs come on at the same time. In crosstalk the faster car doesn't have to look at his opponents light which gives him a clean bulb to see. Reason being the lights are aimed at the car for that lane. If your in crossover mode the light on the slower car comes on first, which means you have to look at a bulb that is not faced toward you. Therefore your light will be slower. A delay box that has a crossover mode will be set up so that when your in crossover mode you can add time to make your light the same as it is when your looking at your light. Usually about .015. If you understand this you don't need a delay box that has crossover mode. You can just take out .015 from your box when you run a slower car and leave off his bulb.
I really don't think crosstalk is fair to the slower car. The faster car gets a clean tree being that his light comes on at the same time as the slower car and doesn't have to look at the slower cars light. Thats bad enough, but now that the faster car gets a clean tree he also has the advantage that first red is the loser. Meaning if the slower car goes red by .001 and the faster car goes red by.050 the faster car still wins, because the slower car went red first.
I think if the faster car get a clean tree as per crosstalk, it should go to worse red is the loser not first red.
sorry so long Ill shut up now,
hope that helps you understand alittle.