No charging necessary. Hardwired directly to vehicle. Hooks to 12VDC battery. MOUNTED HORIZONTALLY.

Using advanced pattern recognition, The IDEC decoder can determine with great accuracy and precision the instant each vehicle with a transponder crosses the center of the detection loop. Information is sent to a PC running our FREE Race Manager Software for analysis and storage. Data can then be distributed to other devices such as scoreboards, printers, wireless hand-held lap time viewers, and other third party devices. The IDEC can be used standalone or in a network of multiple timing points. INCLUDES BALUN, LOOP ANTENNA, COAX, AND NETWORK CABLES.

The IDEC Decoder supports multiple protocols and is compatible with:

There is no comparison. Ownership of Westhold equipment requires a one-time purchase. "Ownership" of subscription based transponders has customers paying again and again. It would be like buying a new transponder every two years. Without a subscription our competitor’s transponder becomes an expensive paperweight.