AJ Gurney

Thanks for the reply, Andy. However, I'm apparently missing the part that's relevent to my question. My concern is with the amount of resistance involved. The Parma Turbos have a resistance of <1 ohm. Are the controllers (throttles?) that come with Scalextric sets the same?

I looked at the power base and it said 15V and 1.2A. I got out an old car and ran it on a power supply and it drew a maximum of about 0.55A at approximately 9.5V. Does the power base provide 1.2A for each lane or is that the maximum for both?

I guess the controllers that came with the set are high resistance. Any idea how high?

When I open a new page on this site I get a window asking me if I will allow cookies or not. This not only happens when I first access the site (which is common), it happens every time I load a new page. It's very annoying. Could this be related to the type of brower being used or the use of a VPN?

I have a set with the Arc One power supply. I want to build some cars using Falcon motors I have left over from my commercial track racing days. I don't know how much amperage or voltage the power supply provides so I'm concerned that these motors might be too much for it.

I have some commercial raceway style controllers (Difalco, Parma Turbo). I was wondering if and how they could be adapted to a Scalextric analog track. I bought a set with an Arc One power supply. Also, what is the resistance of the controllers that came with the Arc One set? Thanks.

Something to keep in mind when changing gears is the "pitch" of the gears. If the pitch of the gears are different, then the gears won't mesh properly. The pitch defines the size and spacing of the teeth. When I raced 1/24 scale commercial track type cars, 48 and 64 were the two most common gear pitches. It is not possible to use a 48 pitch pinion with a 64 pitch spur. The size and spacing of the teeth are different. You could get the gears to mesh at one point but once you tried to turn them they would bind up.Also, the number of teeth defines the diameter of the gear, assuming the pitch stays the same. It would not be possible to have 48 pitch pinions with 8, 9 or 10 teeth that are the same diameter for example. It would require changing the actual size of the teeth to do this.

Nice layout, Klitgaard! 😎

Thanks, Andy. I guess I can blacken the guide with a felt tip marker. I would have liked practice mode to just pounding out laps to try for the best time with no distractions. Any chance this will change?

I bought a Fire 8 and downloaded the app. It seems to work except that it doesn't register speed. All my cars worked with it except one, a Scalextric Mustang. It didn't count laps or record lap times. Also, practice mode seems to be like a race mode with a start, a pit stop and and end after a certain number of laps. Is that the way it's supposed to be?

I guess that offer is no longer available. $49.99 was the cheapest I saw

I bought an ARC One set without knowing what that was. I don't have any bluetooth devices but now that I have this set I thought I might try it if I could get a bluetooth device cheap enough. I found Fire 7s at $50 at a couple of places but it sounds like the ARC app is kind of finicky so I held off buying it.

Thanks for the replies.

Will it work with ARC One? Have you tried a Fire 7?