The SRM website now has a new Track Pictures section, where people can show their SRM timed tracks. Please send me your photo's and I will put them up there!

Version 2.53 is a small update with mostly optical improvements and a couple of bug fixes. These are the changes:

- New timing sensor Set Up routine, because the old one had a bug that prevented selection of a second parallel port.
- Track Power now also switchable per lane, allowing collection of cars at the finish after a race.
- New Timing Screens show more info and better looking digits, now three different sizes for better visibility.
- In Settings, "Delete non-best times" is now gone, all times are now kept automatically.
- In Settings, "Show on Timing Screen" is now gone, all info is now shown.

For people that have updated: it's necessary to set up your relays / OUTPUT pin settings again, since they probably have been shuffled after updating from v2.52.

*** SRM v2.53 is still in development at the moment, so you can't download it yet ***

As of today we have a new Support Forum! Unfortunately, the old one was hacked and beyond repair, so I now used a free forum site to host a new support forum since some people asked for it. You can visit it by clicking on "Support forum" in the links.

A couple of users reported that the parallel port setup did not work correctly and they are right. I completely rewrote that code for the 2.52 version, but in doing that I introduced some bugs which become visible when you are using a non-standard setup. It seems that inverted pins (pin 11) get read faulty, which results in an error "Sensor is blocked, restarting timing" when starting the timing in SRM. The same problem occurs when you don't have your timing hardware hooked up to parallel port #1 (LPT1). Since SRM2 is famed for working with ALL sorts of parallel ports setups and with all pins on the parallel port, I will fix this.

I am now in the process of rewriting again, but you can fix the problem temporarily by using the program TIMESET.EXE from an older version of SRM (preferrably previous versions 2.42 or 2.50).

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Version 2.52 is available now in the download section. Click on "read more" to see the list of new and improved features in it!

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