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Originally Posted by Jimgolf
We had this happen during two games this weekend. We have an old scoreboard, with a new controller. The controller shows tenths of seconds, but the scoreboard does not. The controller shows 0.9, 0.8, 0.7 seconds, but the shot clock shows 00:00, so the officials blow the whistle, saying end of quarter. I explain the situation to them, and we proceed with no further issues the rest of the day, with me warning subsequent officials.
Anyone run into this before? Any suggestions? (Like maybe the scoreboard controller or the scoreboard could be altered to match each other?)
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There's no issue. Nearly all clock that don't show tenth's of second on the board will have a 1 second lag between the clock showing zero and the horn. (Clocks with tenths displayed will have a .1 second lag).
To check, set the time for any even minute (say, 8:00). Turn the clock on-an-off as quickly as possible (it should be about .2 seconds). If the clock reads 7:59, the the clock has the lag -- the "real time" is .0 to .999999 longer than then time displayed. If the clock reads 8:00, then the horn will sound immediately when the clock reads 0:00 -- the "real time" is .0 to .9999999 less than the display time.