This article was produced following the following topic “Avoiding whiplash” (https://www.circuitsroutiers-gentlemendrivers.com/t8508-Eviter-le-coup-de-fouet-lorsqu-une-voiture-sort.htm) on the Gentlemen drivers forum
A sloter notes that when a Carrera GO car leaves the track, the second one tends to leave the track if the latter passes a curve.
I had never paid attention to this. In any case, I never made the connection between my exit from the track and that of the other car. However, I remember not understanding certain exits from the track and perhaps this was due to this phenomenon.
This phenomenon is called the “whiplash effect” on the forum. It would be due to the power supply which provides a certain amount of current and which following an exit from the track of a car finds itself with half as much current to deliver. The time to readjust to provide a single car, it delivers to the car alone a surplus of current. The car still on the track finds itself boosted by this electrical “whiplash”.
To avoid this, several solutions are mentioned on the forum.
The first is to use a stabilized power supply. A more sophisticated power supply than the one provided by Carrera in the GO boxes.
The second is to have a separate power supply per channel. This way you will not have any links between the two channels.
I invite you to read what an Artificial Intelligence told us about it in the article on power supply regarding the whiplash phenomenon.