Post by David C. on Mar 6, 2016 9:19:08 GMT -7
Some may not have any experience with installing lights or a light kit into their slot cars. I will share what I know for I have done several cars with a few of the kits on the market. I will touch on the two major ones avialable from Tom @ Colpar and on the market today that are readily available. Another manufacture you may not know of is "Overdrive". They produce an assortment of different "lamps" or "light bulbs" (old school) which of course are LED's. I may be getting ahead of my self. Lets stick with the two basic light kits.
1. Ninco #80907. This kit has everything you need. The module which has a capacitor which absorbs some of the electricty from the rails whenever power is applied through the rails when the controller trigger is depressed to make the slot car go. This capacitor acts like a sponge and will "soak up" only so much energy until it is full and then it can't absorb any more. The voltage used to power the LED's is very minimal so the performance is virtually un-noticable. Back to the kit... The Ninco kit has head lights and tail lights soldered to a small circuit board that may limit how and where the LED can be placed. The tail lights are just that. No brake light function at all.
Power is supplied via two wires you have to solder to the terminals on the slot car motor. Those wires then go to the circuit board that has the capacitor, resistors and what not. You then have to locate that in the body where you want this to lay or secured it with tape or glue because the wires from this module then go directly to the head and tail lights and those wires are only so long.
2. Slot.it #SISP06. This kit may be a couple bucks more but I think it is worth it because of a few more details. This kit has a module, Headlights and Tail-lights. The differance with this kit is that the module is designed to be placed/fitted in the forward section of the slot.it motor pod. Once again the power supply wires to the module have to be soldered to the motor terminals. The one benefit of this kit is the module has a connector from the module that connects to the wires that go to the LED's. This is beneficial when you remove the body from the chassis to do whatever work you have to do on the chassis/drive train components without the body and wires in the way. Just disconnect the connector and place the body aside. The LED's are not attached to any circuit board like the Ninco but just have the terminal ends that the wires are soldered to. This is beneficial because those terminals can be bent in whatever direction you perfer for clearance issues which mainly occures with the headlights-front tires. To even further make clearance the plastic that encases the LED can be cut back (material removed) to make the LED lamp even shorter. Then the plastic is sanded with very fine sand paper and polished to restore the clarity. The tail lights also function as the "brake lights" when the throttle is released.
Here is a tutorial that might be helpful on how to install lights...
www.darthobbies.com/Tech/PetesLights_asskit_v1.4.pdf
1. Ninco #80907. This kit has everything you need. The module which has a capacitor which absorbs some of the electricty from the rails whenever power is applied through the rails when the controller trigger is depressed to make the slot car go. This capacitor acts like a sponge and will "soak up" only so much energy until it is full and then it can't absorb any more. The voltage used to power the LED's is very minimal so the performance is virtually un-noticable. Back to the kit... The Ninco kit has head lights and tail lights soldered to a small circuit board that may limit how and where the LED can be placed. The tail lights are just that. No brake light function at all.
Power is supplied via two wires you have to solder to the terminals on the slot car motor. Those wires then go to the circuit board that has the capacitor, resistors and what not. You then have to locate that in the body where you want this to lay or secured it with tape or glue because the wires from this module then go directly to the head and tail lights and those wires are only so long.
2. Slot.it #SISP06. This kit may be a couple bucks more but I think it is worth it because of a few more details. This kit has a module, Headlights and Tail-lights. The differance with this kit is that the module is designed to be placed/fitted in the forward section of the slot.it motor pod. Once again the power supply wires to the module have to be soldered to the motor terminals. The one benefit of this kit is the module has a connector from the module that connects to the wires that go to the LED's. This is beneficial when you remove the body from the chassis to do whatever work you have to do on the chassis/drive train components without the body and wires in the way. Just disconnect the connector and place the body aside. The LED's are not attached to any circuit board like the Ninco but just have the terminal ends that the wires are soldered to. This is beneficial because those terminals can be bent in whatever direction you perfer for clearance issues which mainly occures with the headlights-front tires. To even further make clearance the plastic that encases the LED can be cut back (material removed) to make the LED lamp even shorter. Then the plastic is sanded with very fine sand paper and polished to restore the clarity. The tail lights also function as the "brake lights" when the throttle is released.
Here is a tutorial that might be helpful on how to install lights...
www.darthobbies.com/Tech/PetesLights_asskit_v1.4.pdf
