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I was just watching one of the scalextric Digital reviews, and a question sprung to mind...
You will find the Vid here.
Digital videos from a review
The video about setting multiple cars on controller 1. The controller is set to constant power, and 5 "slavecars" were run on the track.
My question is based around lap counting.
For every single lap on controller 2, there would be 5 counts to controller 1. Im wondering how the system would deal with this?
You can of course go faster than a constant speed car, due to it will only move at the fastest it ever can go around the slowest turn.
If I was to digress a moment....infact, this point goes futher. Of the 5 cars, they will always differ slightly in setup, or u can tune the cars to go faster. Chuck another magnet in the "slave cars"t take the magnet out of yours and it could get quite competative. That would make a track with a track with R1 turns a bit cumbersome.
Getting back to the point....So ultimatly over a longer race you will get ahead. But you will never get the fatest lap....
Some of the lap times would be incredible. The cars could pass (the start/finish line) almost instantly on either lane, side by side.
I wonder if the reviewers could feed back on what the system did when they were testing this. Im sure the system wasnt designed for this to be a feature and hinderance, or was it? Did it only count 1 car per pass?
CoolS
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You will find the Vid here.
Digital videos from a review
The video about setting multiple cars on controller 1. The controller is set to constant power, and 5 "slavecars" were run on the track.
My question is based around lap counting.
For every single lap on controller 2, there would be 5 counts to controller 1. Im wondering how the system would deal with this?
You can of course go faster than a constant speed car, due to it will only move at the fastest it ever can go around the slowest turn.
If I was to digress a moment....infact, this point goes futher. Of the 5 cars, they will always differ slightly in setup, or u can tune the cars to go faster. Chuck another magnet in the "slave cars"t take the magnet out of yours and it could get quite competative. That would make a track with a track with R1 turns a bit cumbersome.
Getting back to the point....So ultimatly over a longer race you will get ahead. But you will never get the fatest lap....
Some of the lap times would be incredible. The cars could pass (the start/finish line) almost instantly on either lane, side by side.
I wonder if the reviewers could feed back on what the system did when they were testing this. Im sure the system wasnt designed for this to be a feature and hinderance, or was it? Did it only count 1 car per pass?
CoolS
