I was wondering if anyone has ever seen or tried to construct a way to have wireless controller? I was at a buddies playing on his track and we started wondering if it had been done. Talk about a easy way to have turn marshals. If anyone has done this or is interested in giving some input we'd appreciate it. Regardless this is my new goal in slot car tech.

I imagine its probably easier to just attach guide posts on the bottoms of small RC cars and race em that way, rather than fixing slots to work remotely.

Neat idea though. Let us know how it works.

Why not? Hmmm! :thumbsup: rr

I beleive that Scalextric has a set of wireless controllers for the 1/32 scale cars..... I don't know why anyone hasn't done this yet for HO...it sems like a no brainer to me.....but hey that's just me... :tongue: :lol:

As usual, you are right. Scalectrix does (or at least did recently...I dont know if they still make it or gave up on it) Im sure if you found a set, you could adapt them to an HO track with some basic wiring and soldering skills. Good luck Cwpw!

i thought tyco did that maybe i was wrong

I saw review of the wireless sets. It said the control had the face the receiving unit and the beam would be broken if something was between the control and receiver.

I bought a track a few years ago from TRU that was HO and wireless. Artin maybe? Anyone else remember that?
In any event it stunk and I ended up returning it after it had a meltdown.

The problem you will have is response time. I have tryed it with servos attached to a controller and I ended up with a "turbo lag" if you want to call it that. Recently I tryed it again with a micro electronic speed controller. Spent $65 on a radio and another $20 for the electric speed controller for a airplane. Soon after the smoke came out I was trying to figure out how much I would have to spend in guessing to get it right.

I figure if someone came out with a good R/C controller they would have a stream of slotheads pounding on their door.

Where have you been Goose? Happy Holidays all! :thumbsup: rr

Has anyone tried to put a servo into an old aurora steering wheel controller?
I am going to try it. (I have the gear from an old r/c)