Anyone else think the Aussie’s have their plug and connector the wrong way around. Let’s have the easy to touch male pin connector with the live going through it. Nothing could go wrong there. Apart from that, the track look great and love seeing the progress you’re making.

@thatslotcarguy

2 ай бұрын

Now you're making me scared lol

Set up is really coming together amazing! Stoked!

Your routed track will be sung about in songs from Middle Earth…the one true racing ring of power!

@thatslotcarguy

3 күн бұрын

Hahahahahahha

Nice!! I think that's the same supply I did the test review showcase on my channel and ours is still working great! We run the different brand cars on different voltages for when we race and it works great! Just make sure you have the amp setting cranked all the way up for 10amps. Tracks looking sweet! 👍👍

@thatslotcarguy

2 ай бұрын

Cheers mate

Good Morning Ive been subbed to you for a little while but don't visit much ... Thats Gonna Change Buddy .. You've got such an awesome race Building , Track The whole 9 Yards .. wow High tech track and equipment .... That is Some Killer set up Thanks for Sharing ... Jim ... PS ... I also see your name a lot of several of our channels .. ... really handsome power supply ... I'm not there yet ... soon I hope with Table and all the goodies ... yes it will take time ... presently my ho track is on playroom floor See Ya

@thatslotcarguy

2 ай бұрын

Mate thank you so much for supporting the channel and welcome back lol I'm trying to build something epic....let's see if I can pull it off lol

You could just file out some notches with a rat tail file for the cover of the Clipsal inlet plug, to keep the double insulation complete.

Track is looking awesome man! Great work! Can't believe the individual power supplies! I only have 1 running my whole HO track but I was starting to run out of budget LOL! Nice work mate!

@thatslotcarguy

2 ай бұрын

Mate it's overkill but I think it's easier for me to wire 1 than 3 lol

@ryanperry9472

2 ай бұрын

@@thatslotcarguy How many power taps have you put in the track? My track is just over 60 running feet, so we put 3 taps through the track to have consistent power.

@thatslotcarguy

2 ай бұрын

@@ryanperry9472 only the one mate as it's only 20 metres of lane lengths

1960s American slot cars, I was a kid I spent more money on that then I can count, we had the best of the best equipment ever it was a professional track in Edison New Jersey. We had nothing to do with the track just filling our own fast cars, an awful lot of fun and a good way to stay out of trouble.

@thatslotcarguy

2 ай бұрын

I would have loved to experience slot cars in the 60's

looking nice and smooth

Good work Trav, making good progress legend

@thatslotcarguy

2 ай бұрын

Cheers legend

I'm on day 4 of working out power supply and power tap issues for my 50 metre carrera track. starting from scratch again today before going to do practice at Seagulls club track.Will post photo's and video when finished. Biggest track I have built so far.

@thatslotcarguy

2 ай бұрын

Maybe we need to do a private video chat lol

@shermaddictedtorc8540

2 ай бұрын

@@thatslotcarguy maybe we should just spent 3 hours lying on back under table and fit one set of power wires to each track lane crawl out stand up turn on power and check power supply then repeat inner lane works perfect now but still have problem with outer lane. had enough going to club track to de stress for a couple of hours. then hopefully it works when I go over it for the 100 time..keep making stupid mistakes .. glad to see you fixed your issues mate. made my live difficult by having 9 power taps on 50m track as suggested by german track planner app

@shermaddictedtorc8540

2 ай бұрын

all fixed only took 7more hours. short was at track connectors on the carrera power tap connectors that slot into the track from underneath had shorted.

Looking straight forward...track looks smooth ...

Use car batteries. 1 battery 350 cold cranking amps 12-13 volts . Car Battery charger . Used to run AFX HO CARS on two deep cycle batteries in series with a 24 volt charger left on . They would handle the volts excellent .

The Maggie's have the tire, Ransome for food lol

@thatslotcarguy

2 ай бұрын

They are getting too friendly

Good Day Travis from Ohio.

@thatslotcarguy

2 ай бұрын

G'day mate

Our cars we had were bigger than those are three times that size

Re watched this just now. Started with Bunnings sponsorship. Wonder how much sales of the items you used went up.

@thatslotcarguy

2 ай бұрын

0 lol if 1000's watched the video then I would say maybe lol

G'day cobber, I'm just getting back to slotcars, it's been about 55 years, ..... yes I'm that old. Times have changed but somethings remain the same, I was interested in seeing your wiring and saw a few red flags waving, like you I'm no expert, but have been playing with AC and DC wiring since I was a kid. Since we're only dealing with 12 DC here, no big deal, however, somethings remain the same, (1) red/brown wire = positive, black/blue wire = negative/earth, there is no 3rd wire (although I think it can be used for brakes??) (2) ALWAYS fit a fuse/circuit breaker between power supply and hand controller, don't want to fry your supply. (3) Why does everyone use the male recessed plug socket as their power outlet, it provides a chance of short circuit should power be left on and a metal object happen to touch the pins, although that's where the fuse comes into play, back in the '60s it was always the female socket fixed and the male attached to the controller, much safer. I like the use of 3 core flex wire, with the insulation capable of handling 240v and 10a it should be overkill for 12v 10a. Now I need to find some space in our new place to put a large routed track into, 3 garages and no space. Keep up the good work.

@thatslotcarguy

2 ай бұрын

Cheers for watching mate and appreciate the feedback and info I also question why we use what we use lol

@johnd8892

2 ай бұрын

A male plug on the controller could have a young kid plug it into a power socket at 240 volts. Much more dangerous than any unlikely short for the 12 volt out of the track drivers station. Never seen that happen in the last 27 years of home and commercial tracks using that as the standard set up. Never saw the reverse system used, but hard to remember what the commercial tracks I rented already plugged in controllers used 58 years ago in the slot car boom and bust period. I think circuit breakers are used on that power supply. Agree some sort of high current protection is needed, not just to protect the power supply but more importantly to stop wiring heating up and causing a fire if a short happens with the power supply set to supply the full 10 amps it can do.

@ummcantthinkofone

2 ай бұрын

@@johnd8892 Thanks mate, that is correct

It’s aliveeeee!!!!

@thatslotcarguy

2 ай бұрын

Just lol And congratulations on the 10k bro, epic epic epic achievement and welll deserved

@ummcantthinkofone

2 ай бұрын

And Trav is still alive after getting to work lol

@thatslotcarguy

2 ай бұрын

@@ummcantthinkofone 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hey mate would this setup run womps ?

@thatslotcarguy

2 ай бұрын

Sure can mate