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User Manual Getting Started
Power the device. After a few seconds you arrive at the Ready screen, which is the dashboard everything returns to.
It shows:
- The circuit currently loaded, and its state
- The session and rest durations it will use
- Readiness lines for GPS, storage and the motion sensor
Nothing is running yet. Ready is a waiting room.
Press and hold a finger anywhere on the screen to open the menu.
A tap will not do it. This is deliberate: in a moving vehicle a stray touch must not be able to open a menu, so opening one takes a deliberate hold. Once you are in the menu, a tap is all you need.
See Moving Around for the full set.
- Hold to open the menu.
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Swipe to
MODEand tap it. ChooseTRACK DAYfor a first outing — it shows a session countdown and records laps without displaying live times. - Hold again, swipe to
TRACK, and choose your circuit. - Hold again, swipe to
SETUP→DEVICE SETTINGS, and setSESSIONto your session length. - Back at Ready, start the session.
Setting it up takes a minute. Do it in the paddock, not on the grid.
The track line tells you what the device will actually do:
| It says | It means |
|---|---|
| A circuit name, plainly | Loaded, and timing will arm |
| A circuit name marked provisional | Loaded, but timing will not arm — it runs as a plain timer |
| Suggested | The device thinks it knows where you are, but you have not confirmed it |
| Ambiguous | More than one circuit matches your position |
| Missing or invalid | The stored choice could not be read from the card |
| Nothing | No circuit chosen |
If it says provisional, read Tracks — that is the most common reason a new device does not produce lap times.
A GPS receiver needs a clear view of the sky and up to a minute from cold. Until it has a fix, the readiness line says so.
To watch it acquire, open MODE → GPS ONLY. That screen shows satellite count, fix type
and accuracy as they change, and it distinguishes no receiver from no fix — which
are different problems with different fixes.