My problems inside the Tam Tiger 1/16th.

NapierDogs · 21-07-2005

The inside of the tiger is pretty cramped. I always try to put some where on my tanks as many colours that I might use, so you can see how a colour will look on the colour plastic of the tank. Plus, Colours never seem to look as the lid colour looks. If that makes any sense?

My next problem was with the receiver, in the place they suggest and position, wires from the DMD TO3 caught the Turret rotating, as did the Nylon band which held the batteries, The nylon band I just swapped it around so the end came out, away from the turret. But the receiver had to be moved with the wires going into it from the outside. and any excess held down and away from the rotating turret

The first time I fired up and had a run, I could not get the turret off when I'd finished, I had trapped the Turret rotation and gun elevation wires in the motor. I had to remove the turret by force.(I didn't like doing that!)
To stop it happening again, I put both through a Heat-shrink sleeve(un-shrunk) and stuck it to the MF01. No further trouble.

For wires going through the metal center ring of the turret, I put in heat-shrink to protect against abrasion (un-shrunk) pulled down to connect to MF01, when connected, pulled the wires back through the center ring, into the turret, and Ty-wrapped the excess to stop it getting caught in any cog's or motors.

Mike.

adzam · 21-07-2005

your exactly right in what your saying , there isn`t a lot of space , especially when you se teh size of teh multi function unit !! and squeeze 2 7.2v stick paks in as well. but with a bit of fiddling it`s done, another point i remember was , when i purchased my one, the wiring guide for teh different functions was wrong ! such as turret operation, gun operation etc etc ,

this was about 4 years ago and i presume that they`ve fixed teh prob now, unless you`ve had any problems ?

cheers
Adz..

NapierDogs · 22-07-2005

NO, the problem has not been solved. I had forgotten about that. At first I put it down to me, this been a first tank RC. (Built a Car in 1983, that seem like a life time ago) but, after checking, I had followed correctly.
It ended up that CH-2 Throttle & CH-3 Machine Gun. needed to be reversed, for the tank to work correctly. I was well chuffed when I had worked it out.

Mike

adzam · 22-07-2005

i thought that the wiring was sorted !
well glad you sussed it mike , i bet the other half is pleased with all that noise

NapierDogs · 23-07-2005

The Dragons not to bad at the moment, all the visitors have to have a look at the tank, and see its repertoire, But, like all honeymoon periods, it has to come to a end, and it will be banished to the dogs exercise area!

Mike