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Last night I made a stupid and costly mistake. I noticed the track power was not shutting off when I pressed the pause button. I discovered that one of the wires from the interface module to the power relay had broken loose. In my haste to fix the problem I failed to turn everything off and disconnect the power supply to the module before attempting the repair. Also there was little light to see what I was doing and somehow I shorted out the module and fried the circuit. So now, until the replacement module arrives from Trackmate in Canada my track is without a lap counter. I had a race scheduled this weekend so now I have to contact everyone who was coming and let them know about the problem. I hope they decide to come anyway and we can just have some informal manually counted racing. From now on I will definitely remember the basic rule of electrical repairs. TURN OFF all power to the device under repair.

Sometimes the most fun is had when you never turn it on.

At least around here it is.

Unfortunately about half of these guys are so competitive they only show up on race day but I am asking them to come anyway.