[ScorpiusWireless]

Nitrous dongle being tested.  

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Why it’s important? 

The Scorpius controller can be used in 4 ways without a firmware change.
1. Scorpius. 
2. Native Carrera using Nitrous dongle.
3. Analogue. Using our WAM (Wireless Analogue Module).
4. Nitrous using Nitrous dongle.  

One controller. One latest firmware update. Saves money. Saves hassle. 
All wireless.
All upgradable.

Carrera controllers output 15 throttle steps and a lane change request yea/no. And no adjustable brakes on the controller, only in the CU, and only ten steps.
Seeing the Scorpius controller has 256 throttle steps and 256 braking steps it would be a backward step to convert to just Carrera controller protocols. All 2 of them. 

Of course if we used Carrera controller protocols then we wouldn’t have direct car comms. So there’s that too.

When I first tried the controller I had to squeeze the trigger 9mm before it started the motor. And 3 top steps 11/12/13 were way too close.
I was able to reduce that 9mm to almost zero. This gives better use of the available 25mm trigger moment, thus better control.
I was also able to seperate 11/12/13 better by steepening the curve.
All this was done on a PC and uploaded to library position 1 on the controller. The only issues are of course no matter how sophisticated Scorpius is Carrera is and always will be limited to 15 steps.
256 Scorpius steps is equivalent to 15 Carrera steps.
Each Carrera step is 17 Scorpius steps. In other words Scorpius has 17 times more resolution.

I do notice a delay like all Carrera controllers. Scorpius is far quicker so I’ll have to adjust. I’ve heard Carrera users talk about this so I’m not surprised. Given there’s only 13 updates per second compared to Scorpius’ 100 our response time is up to 7 times quicker. 

So any mapping I design will be rounded to the nearest number 1-15 for Carrera. This is why Nitrous is required. 

So Scorpius throttle mapping works quite well with Carrera native car chips.
If you’re using native controllers you won’t have any throttle mapping unless I put it in the car decoder instead of the controller. Which I may or may not add.

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