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Summary of Contents for Slot SCP-1
- Page 1 Manual-UK 1.1.0 26/11/2010 SCP-1 1.1...
- Page 2 This device complies with RoHS directive. Do not immerse this controller in water. No animals have been used for testing this controller, but several slot cars flew off the track in the development phase. The name SCP-1 means SeCaPelo-1 (Secapelo=Hairdryer).
- Page 3 Slot.it SCP-1 1.1 Dip Switch selector Minimum Voltage Setting Double Action Brake: (Sensitivity) Sweep from 100% to 0 or Fixed braking Power Ramp Control Red/Green LED (AntiSpin) fixed red: MAX trigger reached Green LED: fixed green: MIN trigger reached Analog: 100% brake active...
- Page 4 QUICKSTART for ANALOG SYSTEMS (SCP-1 with analog cartridge) The colour scheme of the SCP-1 cables follows the standard US (Parma) colour coding. In WHITE BLACK our opinion, it does not make sense to use anything other than red for battery power and anything other than black for ground, however since the long time standard established convention is different, we decided, reluctantly, to follow it.
- Page 5 Connect the male jack to the SCP-1 controller. Choose the control cable for your system, according to the table, and connect it to the SCP-1 (RJ45 end) and to your control box (side according to the table above). Note that to remove the control...
- Page 6 (To be sure the rest of this manual is not skipped, we could have inserted here something really scary like 'operating your slot car with this controller without reading the manual first, will result in your real car being towed away, a grasshopper's invasion, or an earthquake', to scare you to death so that you would really read the rest of this manual.
- Page 7 (DS) on the top side, to any position except the '00' one: Using Mode 1 In the development process of the SCP-1's software, at a certain point we started to investigate why a given car, very easy to drive below a given voltage, was very 'rough' and unpredictable with increasing voltage levels.
- Page 8 So, what happens when you increase the voltage, and why does it make things so much more difficult?
- Page 9 Mode 2 does everything mode 1 does, but with a very important difference: the maximum voltage is always limited to the value set by the CM knob. This is extremely useful when, for whatever reason, top speed should be reduced, like for example when children are playing with vintage slot cars...
- Page 10 Mode 3 – CURVE - explained Entering Mode 3 Select mode 3 by putting the switch on the back of the controller to the 'CRV' (bottom) position. Using Mode 3 The 'Curve' mode is very flexible. By appropriate adjustment of the Curve/Max CM knob, together with the position of the dip switches (DS), the response curve can be custom tailored.
- Page 11 Obviously, the curve can vary continuously between the one represented with CM=10 and the one with CM=0. The middle curve, with CM=4 is an example of an intermediate situation. The envelope of possible curves, with the above said fixed MS and dip switch setting, is explained by the picture right above.
- Page 12 So the complete envelope of curves that can be obtained by changing the MS, CM and DS setting, is as follows. Mode 3: curve, complete envelope trigger Envelope of all possible curves A spreadsheet is downloadable from http://www.slot.it site that shows the changing of the curves for all the possible control settings.
- Page 13 Mode 4 – GHOST - explained Entering Mode 4 Activate the GHOST (auto run) mode by executing the following actions in sequence: 1. turn the Curve/Max knob completely counterclockwise to 0 2. put the CRV/LIN switch on LIN 3. press HAND BRAKE 4.
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Page 14: Power Trim
SCP-1's controls The SCP-1 has four main knobs, three push buttons, a sliding switch and two dip switches. Power Trim (PT): also known as 'antispin', this knob controls how the power trim strategy delivers the power to the car. no power trim... - Page 15 Only, the possible settings are 100%, 80%, 60%, 40%, and 20%. Ninco N-Digital: either brake 100%, or no brake. Tecnitoys SDS: no braking is provided by Tecnitoys on their system, so there's no braking available with the SCP-1, either. Carrera: always 100% brake when available from the track (preliminary).
- Page 16 Hand brake (analog and digital mode): The round push button marked 'Hand Brake' is an instant brake, thumb activated. While pressed, power is cut and braking performed according to the BK knob setting. Hand Brake Brake overrides (analog mode): There are two ways to change the brake setting on the fly, and temporarily, without altering the base setting selected by the BK knob: Single Shot 100% Brake Set Brake 100%...
- Page 17 The USB-like data port on the side of the controller is NOT a USB PORT. Do NOT connect it to your PC or data key. It does not harm the SCP-1 or the PC, but is completely useless to do so.
- Page 18 How does the SCP-1 protect itself... As the SCP-1 can operate in a very harsh environment, it has several ways of protecting itself against short circuits and polarity inversions. The following applies to analog systems only. Protection against short circuit between rails: This is the most common situation in normal use.
- Page 19 The SCP-1 reads the trigger position from a magnet housed in the trigger itself. The magnetic field is read by a Hall sensor, whose output is fed to the microcontroller (the CPU). The readout is linear, and there's a patent pending on a couple of technical aspects of this matter.
- Page 20 It is this 'base' relationship which makes it possible, for the software, to create all the curves of the SCP-1. A small change of the 'base' map, which normally is hidden from the user, can radically change the behaviour of the controller.
- Page 21 if everything else fails... press the large, friendly orange button: ...and contact us at the address in the following page...
- Page 22 Galileo Engineering srl, Via Cavallotti 16 – 42100 Reggio Emilia, Italy www.slot.it info@slot.it...
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