Cancelling Hits to a Metallic Piste Using the Piste Box
To start you will need a ‘conductive tape’ (described above), and an ‘insulation tape’ (a non-
conductive tape that can be used to secure and protect the conductive tape). The following
Piste Box setup will cancel hits to either a grounded, or a non-grounded metallic piste.
Preparing the piste:
1. Roll out the conductive tape at a distance of approximately 5cm away from the
side of the piste.
2. When placing the tape in a border around the piste, fold at the corners so that the tape
remains unbroken. Stick down the conductive tape with a bit of insulation tape every few
metres, to ensure it doesn’t move.
3. If the conductive tape requires connection to another piece or part of conductive tape in
order for it to remain in a continuous loop, pull the adhesive layer apart, and slot the new
piece of tape between the existing conductive tape’s adhesive layer and its backing.What’s
important is that both pieces of conductive tape are directly contacting, and that they are
not separated by an insulating layer.
4. Cover over the rest of the conductive tape with insulation tape, leaving around 20cm
underneath the scorebox free of the insulation tape for now.
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Please note: It is important that the conductive tape forms a continuous circuit around the
piste, and is not broken at any point. It is also important that the conductive tape does not
make contact with the piste at any point.
Touching on the Piste Box:
Please note: With this software version, the Piste Box is paired at rst ‘touch-on’, and
remains paired to that Relay Box.You should only need to touch on the Piste Box once, unless
the batteries are removed from the Relay Box.
1. When you turn on the Relay Box, it will prompt you to touch on as normal (all orange
lights are lit). Touch on the Piste Box rst. This can be done by holding the Piste Box and
using three ngers to touch pins [A], [B], and the EnPointe logo [C]. Hover the Piste Box
over the centre of the Relay Box. The three green lights on the Relay Box will ash once
to indicate the Piste Box has touched on.Then touch on the Pocket Boxes as normal.
If a Piste Box has been paired to a Relay Box, the second fencer will not be able to touch on
unless the Piste Box is powered and in range.The Piste Box will remain paired to this Relay
Box, even if the system is turned off and on again. If you wish to completely de-pair the Relay
Box from the Piste Box, just remove and replace all the batteries from the Relay Box.You can
re-pair your Piste Box by repeating the procedure outlined above.
