Is there anyway to make it easier to identify a failed beam trip? Until there is a clearer presentation of cars staged, vs cars on course, vs cars just finished, it's very hard to tell whether the hardware has missed a timing beam break.

At our last event, we were periodically missing start breaks and the only way to monitor it was to watch the DOS window for errors. We made the colours more legible and font bigger, but it was still very hard to tell.

Am I missing something?

@MCOAutocross said:

At our last event, we were periodically missing start breaks and the only way to monitor it was to watch the DOS window for errors.>
Am I missing something?

We typically have a live timing window open and tiled next to the timekeeper's screen on the main computer. We just keep an eye on the queue, the actual cars on course, and what the live timing says should be running. It takes attentiveness from the timer, but it's visually pretty clear when something is wrong.