If I run 2 cars on the same lane at the same time?

(This post IS revised) I've done it before (see post #6). No serious damage yet, except for a rear end colision when the trailing car is faster. If the chase car is alot faster and has a low nose it will probably scoop the leading car off the track. I would'nt make a practice of it though.

I somehow fried a Tomy terminal track doing that once. The darned thing wouldn't work after that.

It tends to really heat up stock controllers, I've burned them out in the past. Just be aware of an unusual odor coming from them when you do.

If you really want to do something with two cars in one lane we used to have train races, one powered car connected to two unpowered (gutted) cars by dental floss. You have to keep all 3 in the slot to win.

As Pete said, in most cases with repeted "doubling" controller death is the final outcome.

Come to think about it, my friend and I were young (early 60's) when we ran two or more cars in the same lane. We ran stock T-jets on Aurora MM track. We did it mainly as a way to get a (even/unbias) performance compairison as to whos' car was better. We did only for a few laps at a time (well, maybe more). We also, hooked up power packs in series and in parallel. And yes, we fried controllers, cars, and power packs. We were young and wondered, what if? It was part of "our" learning curve.
This was before; computers, video games, cell phones, cassettes or 8-tracks. Transistor radios were tne new fad. The cars only cost a little over $2.00 (new). Sorry for the bum/bad advise. Hope you hav'nt damaged anything.

I just ran a few laps. No damage done.

Good! Reread this thread from the begining.

I do it all the time to find the faster car,running power supply with fuses at each driver station hookup.

It depends on the draw of the car. Pancake motors are going to draw less current and you could probably run 2 or 3 at a time and not do too much damage. A car with a hotter motor will and there is where the problem might arise. When we raced hot arms with neo magnets on 18 volts we have burned out stock 90 ohm controllers, in particular on John Kings 210' 4-lane and it's monster 66' main straight.

I think all of us have fried stuff in the search for more horsepower. I've run cars on as high as 24 volts but it was DC power and they ran fast and clean. But I don't think I would want to sacrifice my $180 Professor Motor trying that sort of thing now.

... When we raced hot arms with neo magnets on 18 volts we have burned out stock 90 ohm controllers, in particular on John Kings 210' 4-lane and it's monster 66' main straight...

Yoshi, Were you using the special Slot-Tard, Inc. Slotcar Driving Goggles on that 66' straight? SCman only claims that they're good up to 20'!

Yoshi, Do you have any photos of John King's 210' 4-lane? Sounds AWESOME!!!

I think those goggles are actually rated to 33', when you stand at the middle of the straight you can see both ends.

HO, I can sure dig a few up, the average track lap length is 209' 9", it's 70' on one side and 6' wide at it's widest. I remember him saying something about it ranking as one of the tracks with the highest number of plastic pieces. I just know it takes all day to make a lap with a T-Jet.