Lap counting is still not consistent, i tried all my cars tonight.
A number of my cars have counted the laps 100% not a single missed lap.
I have to add: all modern scalextric cars (and one Fly) are in this group - but this can be coincidence of course.
The other cars do miss laps at times. It can be at speed, it can be slow.
Sometimes when missing a lap at speed and repeated driving slowly, it does count the lap after all.
Sometimes it refuses to count a lap for 3, 4 tries, no matter i'm repeatedly going over the LB slow or fast.
I've tried power off / on, reboot laptop, take out the dongle cable and in again - at times it seemed like this type of rebooting the system seemed to improve things.
I haven't had trouble with reflashing car decoders - except for 2 cars where i had to repeat the reflashing procedure because it kept hanging, but after that reflashing the chip was succesful.
Other pattern i noticed: missed laps for some cars only at lane 1, for other cars only at lane 2.
That made me think of a problem with the LB, leds or whatever.
However, i got it reflashed and resetup as LB 0 without any problem.
After all, there are cars counting laps without any problems.
I tried antenna position.
One SCX car did not count laps well, missed a lot of laps (but could see all the LB's well in the car data program)
After repositioning the antenna it suddenly did all its laps without missing one.
That was y'day - today the car did show its old pattern again.
Can there be a glitch in the dongle? That dongle remains a black box to me. How it hangs, antenna reception, noise?
Or is it a possibility that for instance modern scalextric cars result in clean data without noise, and other cars might somehow influence the cleanliness of sent data?
However, i have a SCX missing laps occasionally, a teamslot with brand new slot.it motor...
Or what i figured: it still can be a software thing. - if computing is slow that might compromise data processing and displaying.
Bottom line, as i compared the cars in the car data program:
ALL cars do pick up ALL the correct LB numbers. No car missed any LC up til now, and no car missed LB 0 when passing over it.
LB0 always shows up correctly in the "last LB" list - there was no single error in this, lap after lap, car after car.
I haven't had any faulty non existing "LB 31" data since i swapped the motor of a car that had this issue.
So I concluded: The signal is picked up and comes through on screen. This car data regarding the picking up and sending LB # is flawless.
Faulty leds are crossed out. all leds /sensors work.
It just the darned lapcounting... Somehow the 20 lines of "Last LB 0" text that pop up does not process to a correct counted lap consistently.
Merc
p.s. what i described in my earlier post regarding the 1/10 the skips you don't confirm as a true hiccup right? Trying to figure out if the chips are faulty or not, and i'm not totally sure if the skips in timestamps are a proof of that.
Reading your first advice, i started thinking it is a hiccup - hence a faulty chip. But i reckon what you consider a true hiccup of a faulty chip looks different?