SlotsNZ
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Story! Looking forward to the return, missed the last two rounds at yours
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I noted this morning that 2 of the LEDs in my light bridge are the old pure IR 940nm waveband of light from when I built that bridge and matching sensor cable about 15 years back, whereas all the new sensors I have used for the last few years are 850nm, and I built and installed a new sensor cable when I was trying to eliminate all possible issues with those software crashes, so they are not 100% effective/compatible. So I have added a strip of about 12 white LEDs beside the IR LEDs in the light bridge, as the modern sensors do also respond to visible white light. That should eliminate any false triggers/false lap times. Those didn’t affect laps counted for anyone as the minimum lap time of 4 seconds prevents a false trigger and a real lap as a car going under the sensor from both being counted in anything but a reaaaallly slow lap caused by a deslot and slow marshalling action.
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Great night of racing with 13 in the shed. Gary was Smithy for the first race. Pleased at the relative lack of damage to the NSR F1s. Very few crashes at the squeezes
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Will do - plus “Marty’s ready”
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For anyone having trouble viewing earlier pages Oakland this week Week 4 1 Australian Touring Cars 2 NSR F1 etc 3 GT3 BUT - I am a bit worried about open wheel interactions at my squeezes - we could get some cars airborne, so I will prepare a house class, and we can get a consensus and decide on the night
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Cracking night. The number of tied lap number results gives a hint as to how many close dices we had, sometimes for half a heat. ”Nerf of the night” award goes to L8n, repaying the compliment my car served him the previous heat. ”Kai king” goes to Smithy? for the terekihi in batter “Hot fingers” award to Gary for some lightning marshalling at the PC corner when someone deslotted just as I came up the inside curved straight. “Bolter” to Pedro getting into the 6s Oakland next week Week 4 1 Australian Touring Cars 2 NSR F1 etc 3 GT3 BUT - I am a bit worried about open wheel interactions at my squeezes - we could get some cars airborne, so I will prepare a house class, and we can get a consensus and decide on the night
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Hi guys, I contacted this guy. http://www.slotspoils.com/ There is about a 4 week lead time. He can supply 5 pairs for € 57 delivered - that is a smidge over $20 a pair in our peso. Holler if you are interested in a pair. “Are you fed up of counting pinion gears teeth and you come up with a different number every time? This might lessen your frustration! “
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I will have a look in my box of tricks, to see if I have any letters left see you Thursday
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Haven’t heard any more from the Hamiltonites, and we’re heading off in a few minutes, so if they call, I’ll give them Macs address, but they may come car deficient
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Hi all, I an unexpectedly going away this week, and a family from Hamilton who set up one of the clubs there, are down in their motor home, with Chris Teesdale and grandson Lincoln keen to race. I am waiting for their call about location. I can lend some cars and controllers for them to use if needed, so just waiting for hosting details for them.
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Four cars done. I have an extra Pro-Slot I will make up as a spare for cover … eventually. they have mostly Slot.it running gear - I had to turn down two sets of wheels for inserts from for the bare hubs. The yellow F355 has Scale Auto wheels
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Cracker
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Hah - Trevor must have driven it into the ground. It sounded like my coffee grinder, and hopped like a kid with a pogo stick. you can check if it qualifies for a tick for resuscitation on Thursday
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I shall be there
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Picked up an oddball cabriolet Porsche - no idea the brand of body or the motor, but could be a Slot.it MX15 as in their DTM cars. Has a 3D chassis under it. Dumped the horrid Scaley plastic running gear, now all Slot.it, drives like it is on rails and runs similar times to a DTM car. That got me motivated to resume a project to make a house class of old Pro-slot models, as Mac built for the Pie-Bone teams classic last weekend. It should sit nicely alongside those, and I am giving them similar running gear. The green Ferrari 355 Cabriolet is done, halfway through the next unit. Have again turned down the plastic rear wheels to make inserts for the Slot.it 17x8 hubs.
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I shall visit the graveyard
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Thanks Mac for putting it all together. Sheesh, I thought Ritchie was just offering sage advice
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Spotted this nefarious looking character online. Looks like one of those British bovva boys with the steel toe Doc Martins
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Looking forward to it
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I’m out for this week. Have a good run
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Hawkes Bay club tonight. Glad everyone had a good time, even with the glitches. Thanks Leighton and Graeme for help. At last I have fixed the crashing of the timing system, but I had the sensors for red and yellow lanes switched for the pre ‘65 race - so some “team cooperation” occurred. We raced each other’s red and yellow lane laps oooops. Swapped the sensors over for the other two races, but we were getting false lap reads on red lane. So those results are also corrupted. But at least folk can read some best laps data for white and blue lanes and yellow for the two latter races. Nearly there, will get it sorted. Realised this morning the issue, thanks to Graeme having asked if the light bridge was working. In plain English, a couple of the LEDs in my 12 year old bridge are the older wavelength of light, and are a poor match, and not very compatible with the new sensors I have been using the last 10 years. I can swap those LEDs over in 5 minutes, last wee problem solved. I can post pics again, but I can’t find away to insert a YouTube video now, on any browser on either device, the link is to about 30 seconds of Group C racing. https://youtu.be/zRpD-_mh44c?si=tTG81kgqQLh3suAQ
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I must be overdue to host, and next week is good for me, so let’s gather at Oakland Raceway for Week 2 1 Pre 65 Classics 2 Slot It Group C 3 Modern Le Mans (GT1 & LMP1 & LMP2 cars)
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Gonna smash Mac’s cars with great care and attention …… Sigh …. You’ve taken at least half the fun out of the banter with a single post
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I’ll play that silly game. We must be well overdue to cop some stick with a Cal-if-or-niarn accent Bone man - we gonna smash your cars good, real good, you’ll need a lint duster to collect the pieces
