Carrera Digital Control Unit vs Carrera Digital Black Box - Programming Slot Cars

Before the release of the Digital Control Unit (CU) circa 2009, Carrera digital slot car tracks used the power base and control center called the Black Box (BB).
The video demonstrates how the Carrera D132/D124 CU functions (speed, brake, fuel level, and encoding) were set using the BB despite it not having the corresponding buttons on the user interface for Carrera D132/D124 slot car tracks.
Although the older Black Box will work for a Carrera digital slot car track, the features are not as comprehensive as those of the current Digital Control Unit. Some of the features that the current CU added over its predecessor are that it supports the advanced pit lane functions (when using the pit lane adapter) whereas the BB does not and only the basic pit functions are available. See the pit stop video listed below for more information about pit lane configurations.
Also, the BB does not have integrated lap counting like the CU, therefore to enable automatic lap counting the older lap counting track module (part #30342) must be used. Speed, braking, fuel, and coding of car programming is not as intuitive with the black box, nor does is support the Bluetooth module for connection to a phone or tablet in order to employ race management software. It does, however have the ability to wire to a Windows PC using a serial-to-USB (TTL) converter cable.
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