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Re: Field Electronics
On the PLC I am not 100% about that. I believe that the I/O units are all based on TCP/IP comm protocol, so a PLC may or may not be required.

I see no reason to change the source code that any of the control devices use. But the tools and software are available to us if that is a route we choose.

You bring up a question that has been biting at me for a while. Is the scorer interface the same year to year? Are there always ( in the past ) been a human scorer using Panelview's to input the scores to the field? This is a factor that would definitely make or break the possibility of a full field for us.