[woodcote]

   

Slot.it SP44 Universal Lighting Kit with brake for Analogue and Digital Slot.it. Available now £18.25

For users of the oXigen Type C Chip, this is what you've been waiting for - a lighting kit that is compatible with the little ribbon connector on the chip. The board will also work with analogue cars and is compatible with the following Slot.it digital chips: SP15b, SP15c, SP43, O201b2 and O201c.

The module supports two white front LEDs (more can be added by connecting extra LEDs in parallel - as long as they are of the same type), two rear red LEDs with braking (digital and analogue) and two auxiliary LED lines. On analogue cars, the +12V and GND terminals are simply connected to the pickup wires. Used with a Slot.it digital chip, the board must be connected via the cables included in the kit.

There are some new features for this version of the Universal Lighting Kit...

As before, when using the O201b2 chip or O201c chip with oXigen firmware, the lights can be switched on and off via the SCP controller. When a car stops on track the auxiliary LEDs will now flash (only if the lights are switched on) and if the car leaves the track, all the lights will start flashing after 3 seconds (whether lights are turned on or off).

Using the new lighting kit with the O201c chip with Scalextric SSD or Carrera D132 firmware also provides the flashing mode when a car leaves the track, but there's no flashing when the car stops on the track. The new SP43 Carrera D132 compatible chip works with the SP44 lighting kit to give all the features (on/off, flashing when stopped on track, flashing off track). It is unclear whether the updated SP15C SSD chip will do the same. The SP15B does not, although I presume there is flashing when the car leaves the track.

Used with an analogue car, lights stay on only when the capacitor is charged. When an analogue car deslots, all the lights start flashing after about 3 seconds. As with the digital chips, flashing frequency is reduced after about 20 seconds. The brightening of the brake lights may be slightly delayed if the speed of the analogue car is high.

Included in the kit are:

• 1 PCB board
  
• 2 white LEDs
  
• 2 red LEDs -
  
• red and black wires
  
• heat shrinking tubes
  
• 6 pole ribbon cable (O201c 'Type C' chip)
  
• 3 pole JST cable (SP15b, SP15c, SP43 and O201b2)
  
• Instructions
  

The kit is available now at Pendle Slot Racing here.

[BAracer]

At last!

[BAracer]

Ordered one yesterday for my 'C' chipped oXigen car...just so I have it available when I pluck up courage to fit it.

[Nonfractal]

Andy,
Do you have a kit? 
How much does the whole thing weigh? 
Those bulb leds look a bit clunky compared to the SMD type used by others (zmachine) 
Alan

[woodcote]

Not yet. I have several of the previous version. The board on the new one looks slightly longer and slightly narrower, but most of the weight is in the capacitor. The LEDs are included to make it a complete kit, but you don’t need to use them. I use the tiny surface mount LEDs on all my lighting installations. They are easy to solder, once you get the knack. And the board is easy to solder too.

Great to see some of the z-machine style features on this new kit 

[BAracer]

Everything in the photo...

3.57g

[In fact. not everything in the photo. There is no 3 pole JST cable in my packet]