Hello all,
I am an Italian member, so I am sorry for my English. I am facing some problems with the equipment listed on the topic title. The symptoms of the malfuntion are following:
most of the laps the route does not match the track. It is like the satellites are lost and when the position is found, the route becomes a sort of stright line from the last detected position and the new position, cutting the curve. The strange thing is that some laps are quite good and the timing is precise (I have also a standard automatic chrono on the steering). Many other times, the route is very strange with big jumps on the track. Setting the baudrate on default, the result is useless at all. Using the baudrate at 115200 as requested by the bluetooth GPS receiver manual things are better but with strange errors which lead the timing being useless most of the laps. At present, I can only put the GPS receiver in a pocket of the suit and the smartphone in another poscket. Does anyone encoutered the same problems? Could be the equipment not suitable for kart timing? Can I do something to improve GPS receiver + smartphone performance? Thanks for helping me. Bye.
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^Thats the problem. Your body and arms causes electromagnetic interference/ blocks gps signals.
Use duct tape and put the gps receiver on top of your helmet, and test again.
Also the precision on lap timing looks good enough.
The mismatch between the automatic chrono I have on the kart (which is activated by real traps on the track) and the Racechrono timing on a single lap can vary between 0.02 seconds to 0.08 seconds. In your opinion, is it an acceptable gap or it is possible to improve, according to your experience? Thank you.