Looking for info on HO drags.....

We use one of Alan Glanko's 10 amp 0-20 volt adjustable power supplies. When you crank it to the max it puts out a little over 21 volts but I adjust it to 18.0 volts each race night. I have a feeling we might be getting power surges or rather one lane sucking power from the other every once in a while. I'm planning on trying to do something to eliminate it as I think sometimes a breakout happens because the other car doesn't use enough power to equalize the lanes. Also, if you dial in your car during time trails on single car runs you probably can't hit the number during eliminations. I know with 26 volts and hundreds of cranking amps you probably don't have this problem and I'm not totally sure we do, just something to check out before someone want to race for the mortgage! The main reason I lowered the voltage is to be able to see the cars and to make the cars part of the race. When I first found out about HO Drags I talked to Steve Geary and he told me that the faster the cars the more consistent they were. To me that's a disadvantage if your trying to have somewhat even competition. If both cars can run a tight number each time they run in brackets then it's almost always the guy who has the best reaction time that wins. (Just mark me down as the permanent loser here.) If however, we lower the voltage and slow the cars down, then everybody's car will be a little more inconsistent and it puts the car and the thought that goes into it back into the race. Just my two cents. (Yeah, I know, I spend 25 cents worth of time saying it.) Both groups of thought seem to be having fun and that's my goal for our group. We run four classes every race night. A pancake bracket and an in line bracket plus two heads up classes. One for stock hard body Super G+ with only adjustments and the stock hard rubber rear tires that we call Pro Stock and the other being Top Eliminator where almost anything goes. Must look like a drag car and have black tires are the rules. Course it's still not going to fly at 18.0 volts. We don't even need wheelie bars. Makes it easy to get lots of cars ready for a race night. Since we are all such newbies it's what we need now. Maybe two/three years from now we will want or have the time for more skill/power in our races. Time will tell. To keep it from becoming a part-time job for the guys I give stickers to the winners of each class. I'll try to bring some to show you. The guys put them on their pit boxes. We only keep points for the two bracket classes and total both classes together into one larger point class. That way the guys who can't put a lot of time into working on the cars still have a good chance on race night and in the points. I'm trying hard to keep this fun and not high pressure. I used to run some 1:1 tracks and in watching the winners and losers there decided that for maximum fun we need to keep the playing field as level as possible without anyone having an advantage by spending more than the others or working on their car an excessive amount of time. Wow, this got long even for me. Any longer and I would qualify to collect an offering! Just kidding. Have a good evening.