We preach the gospel of data collection and analysis pretty often around here. We’ve never lived in an era where data on your laps–whether you’re a pointy-end competitor or simply a casual track driver looking to improve your skills–is easier to collect, log and analyze.
But even the simplest data system is still a dedicated system. It’s another piece of …
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Can you also give an example or two of the 10Hz GPS receivers. Through Google the prices were all over the place.
dps214
SuperDork
11/22/24 11:44 p.m.
At this point there's no real reason to not get the racebox mini. The cheap 10hz receivers are wildly unreliable and the nicer ones aren't cheap enough to justify them over 25hz and real accelerometers from the racebox. I upgraded this year after limping along the ubiquitous cheap qstarz receiver for years and my only regret is that I held out this long.
Yeah it's easy to make these smartphone-based data logging systems cost almost as much as a standalone data logger that is vastly superior, so there's a pretty small price/feature butterzone where they make sense. I like Autosport Labs' Race Capture systems as a good value-for-money option, all libre software too.
dps214 said:
At this point there's no real reason to not get the racebox mini. The cheap 10hz receivers are wildly unreliable and the nicer ones aren't cheap enough to justify them over 25hz and real accelerometers from the racebox. I upgraded this year after limping along the ubiquitous cheap qstarz receiver for years and my only regret is that I held out this long.
I've also got the racebox mini and it has been decent for me. On track it is pretty fool proof, for autocross my first season the thing was great reliably capturing runs all day. It seems like the app hasn't been updated though and I find trying to setup start finish/lines maybe has a 50% success rate now so I've been a bit disappointed.
The racebox mini can be used with any of these other standalone apps too so if you like one of them and are thinking of getting an external GPS to use I'd recommend it for that over the other options.
