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Colorado Time Systems Gen7 Serial Timer
The Gen7 Serial Timer (part number GEN7-TMR) is a swimming timing console made by Colorado Time Systems (CTS). It is the central unit of the company's Gen7 swim-timing platform: it collects the finish signals from each lane's touchpad and backup pushbuttons, runs the race clock, and drives the scoreboard.
Did you know
- ... that the Gen7 Legacy Timer shares its case with the Gen7 Serial Timer, and the two consoles are told apart by their deck cabling?
- ... that the touch boards used at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games sensed a finish pneumatically, and electronic sensing came later?
- ... that timekeepers start their watches on a start system's strobe rather than its horn, because the sound reaches a distant timekeeper late?
- ... that a Lenex meet file is XML with a .lef extension, and is usually exchanged zipped as .lxf?
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Timing consoles (9)
The consoles that run the race clock and collect each lane's finish.
Start systems (21)
Starters, horns, strobes and the units that send the start pulse.
Lane hardware (20)
Touchpads, backup pushbuttons, relay platforms, lane speakers and backstroke devices.
Scoreboards and clocks (26)
Scoreboards, pace clocks and the controllers that drive them.
Meet and team software (26)
Programs for running a meet and for managing a club.
File formats (13)
The formats that carry entries and results between programs, and the tools that read them.
Display software (6)
Software that puts timing results on scoreboards and video boards.
Vendors (18)
The companies that make the equipment and software.
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Scope, sourcing policy, image credits and accessibility.
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Each article is built from manufacturer manuals and datasheets, patents, governing-body rules and independent reporting, and its claims are cited to those sources. Equipment that is no longer sold is covered next to current models, since pools keep timing gear running long after it leaves a catalog, and some makers have stopped publishing documentation for their older products. How the wiki handles sources and images is set out on Sources and citations.
The text is released under CC BY-SA 4.0 and kept as Markdown in a public repository, where anyone can suggest a correction or a new article. Photographs of equipment are welcome too. The about page describes the scope and how to contribute.