by Nor Cal Mike » Sun Jul 05, 2015 8:58 am
dge467,
I am glad you like my table. It is really light weight, was easy to build and the bill at Home Depot only came up to about 65 bucks for all of the material in it including screws and construction adhesive.
Bob T,
I know very little about digital other than what I have read on these online boards. If you look at the digital section here at HRW, you would get the impression that Carrera is the dominant system since the majority folks on this board use D132. But if you go over to SCI or SFI, that is not the case. There is a huge following for SSD on those boards and a lot of user or vendor modification possibilities for the latest C7042 6 car power base which is the one to have if you choose Scalextric. It can even be connected to a PC for better display and race management. It even has an analogue mode, not that I would use it since I have a nice analogue wood track. The PB that I am using currently is the previous C7030 6 car PB which doesn't have as many bells and whistles. The C7030 can be updated by a couple of guys on SFI to do much the same as a C7042 but the C7042 has it all right out of the box. I have a C7042 and several more LC's possibly coming in today's mail. I will report what I find when I get it set up. You saw the pics of the two chips I posted. Either one wouldn't be too much trouble to mount in almost any car, including open wheelers. Carrera chips are HUGE though they to do make an F1 chip. Perhaps that one is small enough, I don't know. As for robustness, I think both systems are about equal. Scaley used to be ahead of Carrera regarding features but I think the more recent Carrera offerings have equaled that out.
I could get excited about the digital classic ROAR type cars that we could get into exchanging if you go SSD.