Vendors

Manufacturers and suppliers referenced across the Equipment catalog. Aquatic timing comes from a small number of companies, and the equipment sections here are grouped by manufacturer because touchpads, start systems, lane speakers, and relay platforms are normally bought to match a facility’s timing console. Each product article records which console or start system the device connects to.

What lives here¶

Each vendor has its own page, and this index links to them. Vendors are referred to by name, and logos are not reproduced, see Sources & citations. When citing a vendor’s manual, link to the official copy rather than hosting it.

The companies fall into three groups. Colorado Time Systems, Daktronics, Swiss Timing, and Seiko are the principal manufacturers of complete aquatic timing systems. International Sports Timing and Superior Swim Timing are smaller United States makers offering lower-cost alternatives to a full console. FINIS is not a timing company; it appears here because it makes the Backstroke Start Wedge, covered under backstroke start devices. NovaStar is not an aquatics company either; it makes the LED display controllers CTS ships with its video boards, covered under scoreboards. Hy-Tek Sports Software and its owner The Active Network make no equipment at all; they are here because the consoles that do are built to talk to Hy-Tek’s meet-management programs, covered under software. Kyrotech and Incomar are two American timing companies that Hy-Tek listed among the console makers its software supported in 1988; both are attested only in the swimming press, with no manual held for either, so their pages stay short. BestBet, Take Your Mark and Wylas Timing are here for the same reason in reverse: no source held for this wiki mentions any of them, and what is recorded about them comes from the documentation of the meet software that drives them. ALGE-Timing is the near miss in that group. It is named in the held periodicals, though never in its own right: a competitor’s advertisement of 2001 to 2003 lists it among the timing systems that software works with.

Vendor	Headquarters	Equipment documented here
Colorado Time Systems (CTS)	Loveland, Colorado, United States	Timing consoles (System 5, System 6, Gen7), the Championship and Infinity start systems, AquaGrip touchpads, lane speakers, relay-judging platforms, and the DisplayLink display software
Daktronics	Brookings, South Dakota, United States	OmniSport timing consoles, T-7000 touchpads, the HS-200 Horn Start, RTOP relay platforms, lane speakers, and scoreboards
Swiss Timing	Corgémont, Switzerland	StartTime starting devices, in-block loudspeakers, and the OBL2 Pro backstroke ledge, sold under the Omega brand
Seiko	Tokyo, Japan	PS-series electronic starters and the AQUA and Full-Frame touch plates
International Sports Timing (IST)	Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States	The SWIMSTART start system and an under-block speaker system
Superior Swim Timing (SST)	United States	Laptop-based timing software, the Atlantis start system, and lane speakers and harnesses
FINIS	Livermore, California, United States	The Backstroke Start Wedge
NovaStar	Xi’an, China	The MCTRL and VX4 LED display controllers CTS ships with its video boards
Hy-Tek Sports Software	New Bern, North Carolina, United States	No equipment; the Meet Manager, Team Manager and Workout Manager software the consoles interface with
The Active Network	United States	No equipment; owner of the Hy-Tek line and of Meet Mobile since 2008
Hy-Point Software	Northwest Indiana, United States	No equipment; the SwimMeet Manager meet software, advertised around 2000 and unrelated to Hy-Tek
Splash Software	Spiegel bei Bern, Switzerland	No equipment; Splash Meet Manager, whose author also maintains the Lenex exchange format
Kyrotech	Northbrook, Illinois, United States	The Tec-Timer printing meet timer, advertised in the press between 1984 and 1993
Incomar	Utica, Michigan, United States	The Splash I pacing system of 1980, and a console Hy-Tek supported in 1988
ALGE-Timing	Not established	The SWIM 2000 and Timy timing consoles, and a semi-automatic swimming package
Wylas Timing	Not established	A wireless timing system for six to ten lanes, with its own screen displays
Take Your Mark	Not established	A timing console reached by shared file rather than by cable
BestBet	Not established	A timing console documented only by comparison with the Colorado Time Systems 4

Colorado Time Systems was founded in 1972 and Daktronics in 1968. Swiss Timing is part of the Swatch Group, Seiko traces its origins to 1881, IST has supplied aquatics facilities since 1992, SST was founded in 2010, and FINIS in 1993.

More manufacturers are added as equipment is documented.

See also¶

• Equipment: the equipment reference
• Timers: the timing consoles these companies build, and the overview that compares them
• Start systems: the start systems, catalogued by manufacturer
• Software: the display software that reads a console’s output
• Sources & citations: how Libre Aquatics Wiki references vendors and manuals