Daktronics Venus 7000 User Manual

Daktronics Venus® 7000 Controller Track Setup Guide

Figure 1: Venus 7000 Shell Menu

Figure 2: RTD Inputs

Figure 3: RTD Input 1 settings for a serial
connection from the MEET MANAGER

Venus® is a registered trademark of Daktronics, Inc. FinishLynx™ is a trademark of the Lynx System Developers, Inc.
Windows® and DOS® are registered trademarks of Microsoft, Inc. Hy-Tek Meet Manager® is a registered trademark of Hy-Tek ltd.

 NOTE: This reference is intended as a guide to help configure the
Venus 7000 controller to interface with Hy-Tek’s MEET MANAGER
for track and FinishLynx photo finish system.

STEP 1 Configure RTD Inputs

Click on <Configure> shown in Figure 1. Next, select the
RTD Inputs file tab as seen in Figure 2. To edit an input,
highlight a number (i.e. 1:) and click on <Edit Input>.

STEP 2 Configure RTD Input 1

Choose Input 1 and configure it per Figure 3 for a serial
connection from Hy-Tek’s MEET MANAGER.

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Figure 4: RTD Input 2 Settings for

Run Time from a serial comm. port on
the Lynx Capture Station.

Figure 5: RTD Input 3 Settings for
Results from a serial comm. port on
the Lynx Capture System.

STEP 3 Identify how FinishLynx will connect to the Venus 7000.

Option 1 is through a serial comm. port. Option 2 is over

the network via a UDP/IP socket. One thing to consider
when making this decision is that if you use serial ports
and you want to send both results and running time from
the FinishLynx capture computer, it is best to use two
separate scoreboard outputs. If you use serial ports, then
you need two serial ports. If you use the network, you just
need to configure two UDP/IP scoreboard outputs, but no
further hardware is required. If you decide to use the
network, you will need the NCP plug-in from FinishLynx.
It is possible to send both run time and results on the same
serial port, but while the run time is counting on the
scoreboard, there will be no results sent over. Either stop
the run time manually, or by using the internal photocell
in FinishLynx. After you have stopped the run time, when
the next result is picked, it will be sent to the scoreboard.

STEP 4 Configure RTD Inputs 2, 3 & 4.
Input 2 will be the running time from FinishLynx Capture

computer. Input 3 will be the start lists and results from
FinishLynx Capture computer and Input 4 will be the start
lists and results from FinishLynx Edit Computer.

Serial Port Connection
Choose Input 2 and configure it per Figure 4. Choose

Input 3 and configure it per Figure 5. Choose Input 4

and configure it per Figure 6.

OR

Network via a UDP/IP socket connection

Choose Input 2 and configure it per Figure 7. Choose

Input 3 and configure it per Figure 8. Choose Input 4

and configure it per Figure 9.

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Figure 6: RTD Input 4 Settings for

Results from a serial comm. port on
the Lynx Edit Station.

Figure 7: RTD Input 2 Settings for
Run Time over a UDP/IP network
socket from the Lynx Capture
Station.

Figure 8: RTD Input 3 Settings for
Results over a UDP/IP network
socket from the Lynx Capture
Station.

Figure 9: RTD Input 4 Settings for
Results over a UDP/IP network
socket from the Lynx Edit Station.

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