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Hi Bill,
I am using Hornby wall warts, 800ma and I am suspecting them. I get 15.9 volts at the track, but when a car is running, my voltage drops to about 5 volts. We are using the stock gun type scalextric controllers set on a constant speed (about 30%), and the DC converting circuit board from the track. There are two single track layouts circumnavigating a mountainscape and the tracks are 12 and 8 linear feet.
I am going to put a better power supply on today and see how that works.
Any additional thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
David
I'm in North Portland in Kenton.
Yes they are Scalextric cars. They are all brand new, and it seems as though they should not be slowing down already. They probably have 10 hours on them at the most. It happens pretty quickly, 10 minutes after putting them on the track.
Since they have custom bodies on them, I probably don't have time to switch cars as it would require a fair amount of fabrication and I have to get these back to Seattle fully running by next Tuesday.
I spoke with Randy at the Beaverton track who thought it might be a thermal fuse in the power source, so I'm going to look into that. I'd love to get somebody from the group over here to have a look at our whole set up and see if there are any obvious issues.
David
Hello,
Brand new member here and novice in the slot car world.
My company in North Portland built a couple of arcade games using 1/32 scalextric cars and tracks as the basis for some moving jogger figurines.
We are running the "cars" (single cars on two separate tracks) at slow speed around simple oval tracks and are finding that after about 10 minutes the cars are slowing down gradually to a point of stopping.
I'd like to get the opinion of an expert at these to help us troubleshoot the problem.
Thanks,
David
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