The DAE (Data Extension) is a small accessory that allows you to extend the potential of miniLAP timer. The miniLAP (vers. R) thanks to its GPS technology allows not only to calculate and display your lap times but also to obtain the trajectories and speeds at any instant of your sessions on the track. If you are facing, through miniLAP, the world of data acquisition, thanks to the DAE you will expand the number of acquired channels and you will learn HOW to improve your performances. Thanks to GPS, and to the use of many splits, it becomes very easy to understand which parts of the circuit can be improved.
Thanks to the acquisition of the GPS speed you can get a first information on the maximum speeds and on average speeds, and with them you can get a first approach to the study of how to improve.
The next step is to understand if the gear is right, if you are accelerating too late, if the braking is not sufficient or if the suspensions are working properly.To obtain this information is necessary to acquire other analog channels (for sensors such as trottle opening, suspensions or braking pressure) or digital ones (rear wheel speed, RPM). The DAE can make your miniLAP acquire up to 4 channels at your choice. Its connector is equipped with 5 contacts, ground (for a proper reference) and four different inputs that can be chosen between a range of 1 RPM, 2 speed, 4 analog input and an output stabilized at 5V. Without adding any additional sensor to your bike, is it possible to acquire for example the RPM, the speed of the rear wheel, automatically derive from these two the gears, and add also trottle opening. By adding external sensors will then be possible to monitor braking pressure or suspension movements, setting up your DAE as you prefer.
INSTALLATION:
The installation of the DAE is extremely easy. You simply have to connect the DAE in series between your miniLAP and the GPS receiver by connecting the two PS2 plugs the first to the timer and the second to the GPS receiver. The 5 inputs AMP connector to 5 inputs already comes with a piece of wire to each terminal at which you can connect the sensor you prefer.
CONFIGURATION:
Through your serial cable used to download data from your miniLAP, it will be possible to Configuring your DAE. You simply need to use Danas (1:41 or higher version) to choose which inputs to enable or the sampling frequency. The DAE can indeed be configured to sample signals at 5Hz or 10Hz.
DATA DOWNLOAD:
Once data are recorded just connect the downloading cable download data from MiniLAP as usual



Thanks to the functionality offered by the DAE module in addition to miniLAP you can acquire a set of data that you can use as overlay in video. In the video above you can see the amounts taken by one of our customer, thanks to software TrackVision and a video taken with a bullet cam, he got a movie of his run on the track very similar to that seen in the world competitions.