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Sunshine Speedway Slot Cars
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Hello slot car racing fans. The scope of this channel is to provide a conduit of information for both you the viewer and me, your host. I am no expert in any fields - but I do enjoy a good challenge and I'm always trying to put ideas into reality. I will try to remain humble and provide honest opinions and reviews that are family friendly. On top of tinkering with new ideas, I will also try to provide uncut footage of both digital and analog racing using my own creation - the AXEL_BOX. I have some interesting ideas for car reviews and tuning, so be sure to stay 'tuned'!
Episode 11 - Get the most out of your AxelBox product!
Hello everyone and welcome back. It’s been a tick since I’ve posted a true video, albeit a little less editing on this one.. Kids and work just don’t allow for the same freedoms anymore. Either way here goes it.
This video is geared towards explaining the full operation of all current AXELBOX products. The AxelBox, AxelBox+, Mini Modules and the crown jewel - the ULTRA4 - are all explained in detail on how they connect to one another and what their primary functions are.
I hope this helps you on your slot car journey
Cheers
#slotcarsareback #carreradigital #slotcar #slotcarracing
This video is geared towards explaining the full operation of all current AXELBOX products. The AxelBox, AxelBox+, Mini Modules and the crown jewel - the ULTRA4 - are all explained in detail on how they connect to one another and what their primary functions are.
I hope this helps you on your slot car journey
Cheers
#slotcarsareback #carreradigital #slotcar #slotcarracing
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Father’s Day Race
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A race event with my wife held this past Father’s Day. I couldn’t be happier to have her join me with some track time, and she’s got some talent with a controller as you’ll find out. Enjoy
Episode 10 - Slot Car Track Building 101 - the making of Sunshine Speedway + More
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Hello everyone and welcome back! It’s been a busy few weeks. With the incoming arrival of my son I had been working frantically at night to get Sunshine Speedway to a level where I felt it was complete, or at least 99% complete… I have seen many Facebook posts in the various groups of folks looking for track design input, as well as tips on how to do scenery on a budget (time and money in my ca...
Episode 9 - Making Carrera Great Again
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As a late US president once said - “Let’s make Carrera Great!!”… or something along those lines Join me as I toss some long neglected Carrera digital cars on track and see just what happens when you show them some attention. It’s been far too long since I’ve enjoyed running digital cars on track, so this video was all it took to regrow my love for these cars and to get them back on track once i...
Episode 8 - SmartRace App, basics and SUPER AMAZING WIDGET REVEAL
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Hello race fans and welcome back to another Sunshine Speedway video! On episode 8 our focus is on setting up your SmartRace App with a track, some cars and drivers, and getting your race screens set up for some proper digital racing!! For those new to SmartRace or thinking of getting this amazing product, this video is for you. Already using SmartRace, then perhaps the AMAZING WIDGET that I’ll ...
Episode 7 - MEGA slot car unboxing and quick review
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Hello everyone, welcome back to Sunshine Speedway! When I first starting dabbling in the massive world of analog slot cars I found myself hoping to find specific brand/model reviews of cars I was interested in so I could see with some detail how they looked inside and out. Sometimes the websites with still photos just doesn’t cut it, you know?? Needless to say I didn’t find much of what I was ...
Episode 6 - AXEL BOX FULL Installation Video
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After much delay I've finally released my own installation guide and demonstration of the AXEL BOX. Installation is a breeze so long as you exercise patience and have the proper tools for the task. Reviewing each step in advance before completion will assure you a successful installation. Happy racing everyone! 0:00 - Intro 0:26 - Tools required 1:24 - Prepping the CU for modification 6:00 - Mo...
Episode 5 - TOP SLOT Vol. 1! NSR McLaren 720s GT3 basic tuning & in-depth lap review
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Episode #5. Today's video is a simple demonstration on how the little changes make a big impact on the drivability of a NSR GT3 class car. This car was purchased for a racing event that I was highly anticipating: the NSR Nationals event held in Edmonton Alberta Sept. 9/10th. The event initially included two races for the GT3 Class; the NSR Tourist Trophy, NSR ...
Episode 4 - Old School becomes even more OLD School... let's get analog with Carrera Pro-X
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Episode 4 - Old School becomes even more OLD School... let's get analog with Carrera Pro-X
Episode 3 - Slot it Sauber C-9 (CA06I) & Nissan R91VP (CA28G) - practice laps
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Episode 3 - Slot it Sauber C-9 (CA06I) & Nissan R91VP (CA28G) - practice laps
Episode 2 - First ever magless run with a Slot.it Nissan… and I enjoyed it!
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Episode 2 - First ever magless run with a Slot.it Nissan… and I enjoyed it!
Corbin BC sledding - snowmageddon conditions
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Corbin BC sledding - snowmageddon conditions
Sledding Frisby Ridge Revelstoke - January 2020
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Sledding Frisby Ridge Revelstoke - January 2020
Hello!!! Could you tell me how do you go about purchasing one of your boxes? Thanks!
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HI..loved ths video, thanks for posting. I was wondering if you could help with an ap issue. I just have the stand alone ap and adons, however I am having trouble with the fuel feature. I am using the base fuel function, but whenever I start a reace, each driver starts immediatle with an empty tank on the ap. It never changes even if we go into the pit and fill up, it always stays at 0 on the ap. Any insite would be appreciated.
If you send me a message on FB through the AxelBox homepage, I’ll post a short video on how to fix your problem there
Sectors… who knew I needed sectors. ?smart race help section on why my sectors not working g. Well I need the Carrera 30371 Check Lane, which I don’t have at moment. My question any way to get it to work without that part? I learned German right left straight curved. Cut and pasted to the track info. Only for it not to work 😢well. It is an awesome video thank you. I am going to get that check lane asap if there isn’t a work around. Thank you again for the TH-cam videos.
No unfortunately the sector timing piece is required to measure the timestamp of the car passing through the gate. You won’t regret adding them into your track. Once you do the sector timing code should work
Very nice,really like your idea with the control unit and charging bases!!!
Yes although that wasn’t my own creation I came up with jointing the two STL files together to make that mega charging unit
Hello from France, Congratulations, your achievement is fantastic! So many good, inspiring ideas... It would be great if you could share the plans of your circuit with me 😀. thank you for sharing and all your videos on the slot. Sincerely
Great suggestion! I will see about including the part by part layout instructions in a future video
Thanks for the video update. I have the tekslot box but really want to set up for a four lane again, I just got alot of analog cars and want to be able to race more than two at a time. I don't have facebook, How could I put an order in with you. Marty was going to send me your email but as far as i can tell I haven't seen it, Thanks again,Nick
I’ll check in with Marty asap to get you email Curvy
And is this compatible with smart race?
Yes you can run SmartRace with either the AxelBox or the Ultra4 in analog mode. All you need is another device with a camera and it will connect to the primary device running the SmartRace app. It uses the camera to capture ‘gates’ where the cars pass through certain windows of the screen. It is very accurate and one of the best features of the latest version of the app
This is incredible stuff. I’m relatively new to digital slot car racing and extremely ignorant regarding wiring or installing components. What I would like to see for my track is 6 driver stations each with ability to stop race and call out pace car. Are instructions easy to follow. But honestly I worry about installing them. How easy is installation?
Super easy. As long as you have a decent soldering iron and aren’t afraid of pulling off the cover to the bottom of your CU. Check out my install video for the AxelBox - you’ll see just how easy the main soldering part is. The driver stations are basically plug and play, all you have to do is mount the boxes and plug in the wiring harness I fabricate.
The Stop buttons you installed for me on the first version Axel Box work great. Can I add 1 call button with the Safety car button?
You can do that my friend. You’d have to send me a quick photo of your current setup and I’ll draft up a new wiring diagram on how to get it all up and running
Very Nice video with current pricing!🏁
Thank you! 👍
Good to know, thanks ! Mine is still working great btw ! Thank you for your hard work Sir !
Great to hear!
i still have original box still works great and enjoy. i like the other products maybe sometime soon i will upgrade.
You are one of the OG’s WILDAN! Keep up the good work on your layout sir
Very nice Fathers day present! 🏁
I couldn’t ask for anything more really
Love the Family racing Alex. Thanks Brother!
Family racing is just as fun as racing with the boys IMO
Those Fly classics are great! Keep creating! Enjoyed the layout!
With a few aftermarket parts those Fly cars are a huge amount of fun. I know you have a love for FLY cars and I totally see why
Good Ole fun look like a great day
The Mrs has some skills. I think she’s ready to compete with the folks that I run against regularly
@Sunshine_Speedway she definately does
Good to c the wife racing well done 👍
She has fun so long as we don’t talk about the cost of the hobby 🤫
@@Sunshine_Speedway_SlotCars lol
Your microphone is horrendously bad, you should get something better like a Rode or DJI and the music is twice the volume as well. Not trying to poke fun just letting you know.
Noted, thanks. Can’t commit a ton of my life to editing unfortunately but I will keep this in mind for the next
@@Sunshine_Speedway_SlotCars I sure hope I didn't offend you, but your video content is good otherwise.
I used this for the first time last night with a couple of buddies, and I chose the "Dynamic" option for the Time Table Sorting, because I wanted the car that was in first place at the top of the list, then 2nd below it, and third below 2nd. The problem was, the placement was only using the fastest lap as the deciding factor for the placement of the race, and not the Laps. This annoyed the hell out of us last night. Why the hell wouldn't they add the option for actual Lap placement to be listed in order on the screen from 1st place and down, you know, like all other races ever done, because that is the entire point of the race?????? I couldn't believe this feature wasn't available, as it's the entire reason for my wanting the app in the first place. You don't automatically become 1st place for the entire race based on your single best lap time, in hopes that nobody else can beat that 1 lap time moving you down to 2nd until you can possibly beat that record lap time, that's ridiculous... Am I missing something here, or did they really do that?
I will have to look into this the next time I have some folks over for racing. Are you certain you’re not running a qualifying session instead of a race session? It would make sense that the person with the fastest lap would be moved to the top of the chart in qualifying
@@Sunshine_Speedway_SlotCars No, I'm pretty sure it was just a race. We did a few races and same thing. Unless you have to have a qualifying session before each race? I chose the race option though. Ya if you happen to try it out, please let me know what you figure out. I'll try it again next Friday as well.
I can't get this to work on my IPhone. it's asking me for my IP address to connect and then will not connect. I have solid blue "bluetooth" connect light but the app will not launch. Any suggestions?
I will look into it for you
Whats nice about the 1/24 Carrera track is that I am able to run all scales (HO,1/43,1/32 and 1/24). I am analog now but I imagine if I added the CU then the other digital tracks would not work for analog for some of the scales? Nice video!🏁
If you added the digital CU all you would have to do is install a digital/analog converter aka the AxelBox and you’d still be able to run all scales up to 1/24. To my understanding HO runs at a much higher voltage, so you may be forced to go the ULTRA4 route as the analog system is separate to the digital system so you can adjust the power supply voltage depending on what scale you’re running. Just be sure to tone it down if you’re going back to 1/32-1/24. I can’t imagine how fast they’d go at HO voltages 😵💫😵💫
Catching up on the livestream, sorry I missed it. Keep up the great work, Alex!
Thanks for the support. Newbie to the livestream world for sure. Baby steps right? Take care Marty
That could have been mine your working on. I plan on eventually adding a wood track from RTS to my basement this year. My grandson Axel loves the digital but is looking forward to using different cars, with his namesake.
Yours was definitely in the mix Pete!
I need to tell how much I am thankful that you made the AXELBOX for me. Thank you for making it affordable for the average joe ! Keep up the good work Sir.
100% agree
Glad you like it! I appreciate feedback from those that have taken a chance on my product line
Tires are the single most important factor racing magnet or non-magnet. I love racing both. Digital magnet racing is an absolute blast racing with others. By myself Im usually running non mags or very low strength mags. I dont get the mag non mag arguments. They are both fun to me. To each their own.
I understand the magnet guys for sure. I ran them for a long time, and when I have folks over that are new to racing I do wish I had left some cars with the magnets in for them…
Good info, just learning the app. So helpful. Gave you a sub Race On!
Thanks for the sub! It’s a great app and the fact they are constantly updating it means they are listening to the users. You can’t beat that
Amazing track! Congratulations!
I appreciate the comment, it was a labor of love for a very long time. It’s nice to be able to enjoy it these days
This was so helpful. As a newbie to the hobby it really helps accelerate my enjoyment of the app. Thank you for your time and guidance.
Glad it was helpful!
This is a huge help, thank you! I'm also hunting down a way to add more sounds to the existing library - do you know if this has ever been accomplished?
I don’t think it is possible no, the sounds are not found in any of the folders that are accessible from the FILES App on either a tablet or cell phone. It would be my assumption that the audio sounds are imbedded into the software and can only be updated by app updates by the creator. Send them some feedback on what you’d like to see, or better yet see if they can make the sound library similar to that of the car library where you can add sounds. Some audio clips from TH-cam videos would be a good start for some new sounds!
Hi, would you mind if I ask where you got the flexible catch fence at 18:30. Thanks Mark
Hey Mark, if you google search ‘muretto protezione stl’ and look for a username FVICARI or Francesco Vicari you will find the barrier fence and the barrier wall that it is intended to plug into. I was cutting the stems that go into the blocks on and hot glueing them to my track lighting
@@Sunshine_Speedway_SlotCars oh cool, thank you for the reply and the info. I'll check it out. Thanks again Mark.
Great video for a newbie like me :-) at 13:30 , we can see speeding info for Batman #2....is the sector must be activated to be able to see the speed ?
When you set up your track info on the main screen you can input the length of your track in centimeters. The app does some mathematical magic to determine a ‘scale speed’ of the car based on its lap time. I hope that helps!
@@Sunshine_Speedway_SlotCars thanks for replying, it is now working with yours hints :-)
Great Video Brother. My box is on the way so I'm brushing up by watching this video over and over!
Please.. no orange hemmoroïd red hat wannabe stuff.. Nice layout.
I don’t follow your comment but I’m interested to know what you’re talking about?!
Great video! Thanks for sharing your insights and experience in your track build. Congratulations on the arrival of your child.
Thanks so much! He’s 5 months now and does follow the cars on track pretty good these days. Whenever he’s fussy I take him out there and sometimes he falls asleep - win win!
Can I ask what you used for the catch fencing on the banked corner? It looks semi-flexible, and perhaps better than some 3D printed options.
The catch fence is a 3D printed part of found online. It resembles that of a chain link fence and is flexible to install and is also very forgiving to the cars. As you might see there are a few segments that have holes blown into them - Carrera cars mostly… haha. They are freight trains due to their weight and when they come out of the slot they cause more damage to the fence than to themselves.
Thanks for this - as a modeller coming into slot car racing, this was really helpful. My initial layout was very similar to yours and I had many of the same issues / tweaks to make :)
Glad I could give you some insight. There’s a million ways to make it all happen, if there were a ‘next time’ for me there would be a few steps I’d do differently for sure and some others I’d do the same. Live and learn am I right?
Wow man all the little things really bring it all together its soo cool! Thanks for sharing, ive just brought 30m of scaleauto track myself and am keen as to have a play!
Bit by bit each little detail really sums it all up for sure. Be sure to take the to enjoy some racing along the way. I caught myself a few times losing steam because the track had been disassembled for so long I didn’t realize I needed to turn some laps to get motivated again
Is it possible to purchase an Axel Box without Facebook? I am not a member of Facebook and prefer not to join.
If you know someone who has FB ge them to contact me via the AxelBox homepage. It’s far easier to share information privately via this method than over TH-cam.
Can we time drag race on this app?
The SmartRace app isn’t really geared towards drag racing. The start of the race uses the 5 lights on the CU as well as the overhead start gantry lights, but there’s a bit of disconnect between when the lights go out and the start of the race. For some folks it’s easy to jump start as the anticipated start moment isn’t always what you’d expect - there’s a bit of a delay. If you were hard pressed to use it you could, all you’d have to do is set up a split time track piece at the finish line as use the sector 1 time as your finish time
Great work and great tips.... my son, daughter and I just put the tables in place for our track..... Let the process begin! (congrats on your little guy!)
That is awesome! It’s so great to share a hobby with your children. My two- girls aren’t overly interested but I have high hopes my son will when he’s older
Hello, do you have a video on your "best wireless charger on the market…" or details on the design or a model Tinkercad ? Thanks
I would like to put together a tutorial video explaining how I put this charger together on Tinkercad
Hi, Alex, I subscribed to your channel a few weeks ago,... and you obviously have experience with Smartrace and would love for you to tell me how to make the transition from a qualifier to a lap based race. I have tried to get Smartrace to use each driver's fastest lap to set up the Main event. Another youtuber messaged me and told me that Smartrace will indeed use the fastest lap from the qualifier for the main setup. Here is what he said... "when it comes to qualifying and you want to give each driver 2min each - set the qualifying session up for 2min x however many drivers you have, plus 30-60 seconds in between for the sake of tire cleaning or track maintenance etc. if you’re using SmartRace it will take the fastest laps of all drivers and set the running order of your race when you change from a qualifying session to a race session - just make sure you don’t go to the main mend to start your race otherwise your qualifying results will be lost." I really appreciate your time reading this lengthy message, can you please help me with this? Thank you in advance.
Please, tell me where to order one of these Axel Box. I need one bad.
If you’ve got Facebook search for the AxelBox homepage
Hi Alex 👋 like you i take the magnets out of my carrera cars .and add a little weight ..racing with magnets is so unrealistic. I bought an analogue and Digital set and put them together ..after two hours i removed my digital components and have be analogue ever since ...adding cars from whatever brand I want and no expense of chips . Yout track looks amazing. Great quality video I enjoyed watching, 👍 Greetings from Latvia 🤗...Harry
A hey Harry, yes I agree with your thoughts on the magnets. I ran my carrera cars for a good year or so with magnets in and once I did a race on a wooden track and felt that lack of magnetic force I was hooked. It felt like the magnets were stealing away from the cars actual driving abilities. I should keep a few cars with them left in, folks that come over to race often can’t handle the non-mag cars easily right off the start. Subbed your channel as well, keep up the good work on your end 👍👍
Looks amazing and is exactly what I’m looking for. How can I get info on pricing and ordering? Thanks.
If you’re on Facebook lookup axel_box homepage. You can reach me directly via that group
One of the best videos outhere on SmartRace, thanks for sharing 👍
Glad it was helpful! There’s far more to it that I haven’t touched on, but someday soon I hope to expand on it
Im deaf, i have my sound all the way up and i can barely hear it. is it me or the video?
I’ve got my iPad at 1/2 volume and it’s plenty loud. If you are watching on computer external speakers it could be an audio settings issue 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
You could turn on the CC, that seems to work pretty well at a short glance