by slowshoes » Tue Dec 05, 2017 6:18 am
I bought my adjustable supply after my Ninco WICO powerbase fried. I was going to just replace the WICO base, since I liked the wireless aspect of the system. I contacted Professor Motor about purchasing another base, and they said they basically stopped selling them as they've had such a high failure rate.
Rather than reinvest in an unreliable system, and knowing the controllers weren't very sensitive (ok for me, but would be difficult for my up and coming racing grandkids. (at least I hope they want to be racers). I decided to re think my system, and ended up going with not only going with an adjustable power supply, (which has been great - same unit that Harry linked to), but Professor motor controllers with adjustable sensitivity and braking. (the ones for home use).
All this adjustability has been great, not only for my up and coming grandkid hot rodders, but for me as well. Cars that I tended not to use as much because they were so twitchy and hard to control (despite my tuning efforts) have become good drivers because of the adjustability.
I don't turn the amps up all the way after I observed just how little amps my cars draw. Just as a background, I'm just a home racer - my track is a two lane Ninco, and the first thing I do is remove the magnets when I receive a new car, so it's not surprising I'm not drawing much with my setup. I also am not that concerned how fast a car goes around the track, but rather getting any car to be a quick, predictable driver. Much of this is about tires as well - some brands run much better with their stock rubber on Ninco track than others.
Best of luck with your new adjustable power supply - your going to love it. :)