Thank you for sharing, love it. You are the master of setting up RCS pace cars.
COVID-19 Lockdown Hobby Time with SSD RCS64 Slot.it Pace Cars
I have always wanted to record some variable speed Slot.it pace cars but never seem to get the time with work, sport, committee work & footy commitments etc.etc.
Now with the COVID-19 lockdown there is plenty of time at home of an evening so I had a play and recorded my first Slot.it pace car last night and had half a dozen races and they were really fun, although I only won a couple of the races.
Tonight I recorded a video of a quick 15 lap pace car race, I am always in awe of the RCS64 software when it comes to recording and perfecting variable speed pace cars on my twisty undulating track and there is only one re-calibration point at the Start/Finish line, use of the sectors is amazing.
The race in the video wasn't perfect, there were a couple of crashes etc. but when your stuck home alone with no where to go, racing other competitive cars is so much more fun than just doing laps
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(which of course is still a lot of fun
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Hope the video plays OK (can't seem to find the "how to" for inserting youtube videos to threads anymore)
Now with the COVID-19 lockdown there is plenty of time at home of an evening so I had a play and recorded my first Slot.it pace car last night and had half a dozen races and they were really fun, although I only won a couple of the races.
Tonight I recorded a video of a quick 15 lap pace car race, I am always in awe of the RCS64 software when it comes to recording and perfecting variable speed pace cars on my twisty undulating track and there is only one re-calibration point at the Start/Finish line, use of the sectors is amazing.
The race in the video wasn't perfect, there were a couple of crashes etc. but when your stuck home alone with no where to go, racing other competitive cars is so much more fun than just doing laps
Hope the video plays OK (can't seem to find the "how to" for inserting youtube videos to threads anymore)
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High praise there Minardi thanks, although there had to be a fair bit of mastery in system design/development & program coding before I got a chance to enjoy the functionality
I have only had 1 day with RCS-O2 so far (borrowed controllers) but when I get my SCP-3 I plan to lose more time in that program as it develops.as well. Here's thinking of Northern Italy and the Slot.it team (and Europe generally, China, US, all of us really)
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Lucky you Widders, putting the "horse before the cart"
Thanks Leopard, it must have been the Hypnotic part that lead to me crashing so often and loosing the race
Thanks Shad, I just had the standard magnet that comes with the Slot.it Audi LMP car plus whatever the motor provides. On my home made Magnet Marshall these Slot.it cars only register around 45-50 grams of magnetic down force which is pretty much magless racing by my standards
Great video, and great job calibrating that pace car!
Yeah, no... not pretty much magless. If you pull that magnet, what does it measure then?
45-50g would be a bit much for motor-only, but I've seen it with some of the special magnetic effect motors, especially anglewinder configuration. Even that is definitely NOT pretty much magless.
WITH the traction magnet, that's what you measured? If so, your scale needs to be a little more sensitive.Thanks Shad, I just had the standard magnet that comes with the Slot.it Audi LMP car plus whatever the motor provides. On my home made Magnet Marshall these Slot.it cars only register around 45-50 grams of magnetic down force which is pretty much magless racing by my standards![biggrin.png]()
Yeah, no... not pretty much magless. If you pull that magnet, what does it measure then?
45-50g would be a bit much for motor-only, but I've seen it with some of the special magnetic effect motors, especially anglewinder configuration. Even that is definitely NOT pretty much magless.
Mr F, you got me thinking re magnets so I ran a few tests on my homemade Magnet Marshall cross checking to the Tesla Meter readings. Now apparently there is no direct way to equate magnetic down force grams with magnetic field Tesla readings (there is a thread on here discussing this, but the science around that is way above my pay grade) but I thought measuring the same cars using both technics might show some interesting relationships.
Control car as I have measured the magnetic down force of this car on our club's actual Magnet Marshall and was within 10 grams of my homemade setup, 156 grams is on the money.
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Next, same control car on the phone Tesla Meter app. showing 2437 Tesla's (whatever they are)
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Next the Slot.it Audi LMP pace car with standard magnet in on the homemade magnet marshall showing 53 grams down force.
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Now the the pace car on the Tesla Meter showing 441 Tesla's.
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Now the Slot.it Audi LMP pace car with no magnet on the homemade marshall showing only 6 grams down force.
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The Slot.it no magnet car on the Tesla Meter showing a reduced 233 Tesla's.
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So far so good the reduced magnetic down force grams is in line with the reduced Tesla's.
Now let's compare the 2 magnets separately, first the control Scaley Torana car magnet stuck directly to the phone sensor spot with 3207 Tesla's.
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And next the Slot.it magnet with a reduced 2413 Tesla's.
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CONCLUSIONS - Scaley magnet stronger than Slot.it, 150 grams v 50 grams is a significant difference, Slot.it cars handle better with significantly reduced magnetic assistance.
I actuality drove the magless Slot.it on my track for the first time and yep very different, what I thought was basically magless turns out not to be so, it was just a lot less magnet.
That said I have now recorded a magless Slot.it pace car in RCS64 and it is only 2 seconds a lap slower than the one in the video, upside is I reckon I can get it quicker 😁
Control car as I have measured the magnetic down force of this car on our club's actual Magnet Marshall and was within 10 grams of my homemade setup, 156 grams is on the money.
Next, same control car on the phone Tesla Meter app. showing 2437 Tesla's (whatever they are)
Next the Slot.it Audi LMP pace car with standard magnet in on the homemade magnet marshall showing 53 grams down force.
Now the the pace car on the Tesla Meter showing 441 Tesla's.
Now the Slot.it Audi LMP pace car with no magnet on the homemade marshall showing only 6 grams down force.
The Slot.it no magnet car on the Tesla Meter showing a reduced 233 Tesla's.
So far so good the reduced magnetic down force grams is in line with the reduced Tesla's.
Now let's compare the 2 magnets separately, first the control Scaley Torana car magnet stuck directly to the phone sensor spot with 3207 Tesla's.
And next the Slot.it magnet with a reduced 2413 Tesla's.
CONCLUSIONS - Scaley magnet stronger than Slot.it, 150 grams v 50 grams is a significant difference, Slot.it cars handle better with significantly reduced magnetic assistance.
I actuality drove the magless Slot.it on my track for the first time and yep very different, what I thought was basically magless turns out not to be so, it was just a lot less magnet.
That said I have now recorded a magless Slot.it pace car in RCS64 and it is only 2 seconds a lap slower than the one in the video, upside is I reckon I can get it quicker 😁
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Is it possible to add sensors under the track for "stages" in both RCS64 and SSDC? That would help with pace cars I would imagine.
I have been running Revo Slot cars without a magnet, and with the amount of drifting they do, it's hard to record decent pace data - but they are so much more fun and challenging!
I am so lucky that my better half likes racing as much as I do - so there is always someone to race against
I have been running Revo Slot cars without a magnet, and with the amount of drifting they do, it's hard to record decent pace data - but they are so much more fun and challenging!
I am so lucky that my better half likes racing as much as I do - so there is always someone to race against
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