Bracket Bob

Sure sam, tracks a mdf 8'8" 1/8th mile with 3'4" of shut down which is shorted for braking, railing is the same railing used on all full tilt raceways (thanks to kevin for the help on that) set up is based on early 60's street racing. has flagger at start which lights up to signal start, finish line has two mini micro switchs set up to relay's which trigger win lights that are installed in two cars sitting on side of track facing the starting line (a 66 nova left lane and 72 chevy truck right lane). which ever car cross's finish line first that car turns on its headlights showing they won (if by chance both cars trip at same time neither light comes on showing it was a tie). track power is a wall wart with 30 volts and 4 amps, also wired to use two 12 car batterys when set up at car shows. track is fast and working on adding timimg with a laptop. every sat nite i set up the track on the front porch and have a freindly race with the local teens with $1 entry, i furnish cars and winner takes all (grudge race's cost them 25 cents a race), we run all x-traction cars heads up and we run best 3 out of 5 just like a pinks race, its hard to get a teen to give you any i mean any length of a head start lol. also working on 1/4th mile track with full tree and timing that will be ready to run on in Dec somtime if we dont run into any drawbacks.

Hi BB, I had put together a portable 1/8th mile track and tried to use a laptop with TrakMate SemiPro. Never could get to load right and Daniel at TrakMate told me they had had that problem before and only a certain few laptops would work with it. I ended up with an Old Dos computer that worked fine until I moved up to the Windows based system. I'm planning on using the SemiPro system on a portable track too. If you figure out how to do it with a lap top let me know as I'd rather not lug around an old tower and monitor either.

sam cant get them to load, but if you go to myspace search Bracket Bob i have them in slot car pics.

since its not timed no, most of the guys think there is no power to the track until the light comes on anyway (shhhhhhhhhhh dont tell them its live all the time). if a guy jumps before the light the next race he has to give up a car length remember it's street racing we race best 3 out of 5 but all this will change soon but that's the fun of street racing you never know what to expect. we had a great turn out last nite 11 racers (8 teens,2 women, and 1 old fart me) first timer won the cash, was doing some testing after race with neo magnet car and killed the 66 nova (win light) when car deslotted and hit head on knocking off front of nova busting both headlights. tracks getting faster none of the t-jets will stay in the slot now, quess iam going to have to install wheelie bars lol

If you are wanting to keep it simple, couldn't you go with a lower voltage wall wart? 30 volts seems high. I thought they were all 18-22 volt for HO.

Got a update! took my track to a freinds house and after seeing and playing on it he wants to build one only 1/4 mile, well that was 3 weeks ago. NOW (we having been working our butts off!) we have a 4 lane road cousre on a 8X8 table that can be changed over to a sort of a square oval lol! we also have the dragstrip allmost done too, got the timing system just waiting on the sensors which was ordered last nite. as soon as everythings done i will get some pics up, by the way whats a good run on a 1/4 with a stock t-jet? keep you guys posted