After several days with lots of activity, there is now a clear tire trace on the track.
Perhaps that’s the reason for the new lab record of 4,850 seconds.
Until next session I’ll cross fingers for dry weather 🙂
Kategori: Track Improvement
Dusk Buster Cloth
From my local paint shop, I have bought some dustbinding cloth containing resin. I wipe the track and clean the tiers with it – the effect is remarkable! Just store the cloth in an airtight plastic bag.
Velcro Fence
Just made a new soft fence in all the corners. I used flight case foam mounted to the track with Velcro.
New Solenoids testet!
The new solenoids are just as god as I could hope for. They use approximate 200 mA at 12 VDC and can be activated for over 30 minutes without meltdown 🙂 The old ones destroyed themselves after just 20 sekunds!
Normally the solenoids are activated way below 1 sekund, only when a car is deslotted before one of the two reset optical switches, it can be activated for a longer periode. I my world deslotting happens so… 🙂
New Linear Solenoids
Just ordered some new linear solenoids. The one I have used so far, becomes to hot when active over 10 seconds. It can happen when a car is deslotted before one of the the two reset slotted optical switches are activated . They consume 1.100 mA! despite they are marked 800 mA at 12VDC, the new ones consume only 300 mA – i hope 🙂
