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Same method as shown earlier is used for chipping the cars with decoders on IDs 1-6.

A ‘triangular’-ish circuit board is used which has a six pin header socket and a downward facing surface mount Infra-Red LED fitted. This is wired to the pick-up and motor (hence the total of six pins) and then hot-glued into place.


The decoders are then ‘plug-and-play’ using the six pin interface.

This approach is great for trials of the new system. And, using matching pin configurations for SSD and O2 - it is straight forward to change system as and when desired.

IDs 1-6 now ready to join the trials of the new system to be followed by a lab based characterisation of throttle response times and max safe speed for lap detection etc.

It’s a twelve car system which, in principle, is scalable to twenty four cars or thirty six cars. For now twelve is plenty.

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