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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/8/2013 6:47 PM   
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You will need to lose the Tamiya wiring harness and mount.

Clark sells a wiring harnesses and mounts that will plug into this board. I have a similiar thing for sale as well as they are exactly the same as what I use on a DBC3.





I am not a big fan of those micro plugs either. Hard to find

If this is the case......well I guess the cost of the "clark battle system" just went up...

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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/8/2013 7:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		True but, it's only $7 for the base and cable. I think in my opinion, clark should have an option where you could order everything in one package instead of an ala carte. If you have all the cables and such you still have the option to do so. But it would be nice to have a package with the board, apple base, ir, flash, remote all in one option.

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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/8/2013 8:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ether way I am left holding the bag as it were. To make matters worse, I can not get onto their site to order the parts they neglected to inform me that I would need to make this whole mess work. If a vender did something like this to me when I was racing cars, I would have pulled their parts off my car and told everyone that would lissen to not deal with them. Sorry if I am comming across a little harsh but the list of "gee didn't you know's" keeps getting longer....what do I mean?

1) gee, didn't you know that the henglong motors would just stop if we reduced power to simulate battle damage.....so even though we called the system tamiya compatable we took this option out of our first run of boards.
2) gee, didn't you know the heng long ir bulbs are junk so we put a resister on the board so you wouldn't blow them.....sorry to tell you that unless you soder over it your tank will have no range...guess we didn't tell anyone till people complained.....

and now...3) gee, didn't you know that unless you buy our tamiya apple mount and wire with the connectors for the IR bulb....you are going to have to look all over the place to find the connectors and pins....   good luck with that.....

Spent all this time making the the mount for the servo for "the real recoil" and I just want to trash it and go with tamiya guts.....

 

what a waste of time....

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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/8/2013 10:26 PM   
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Status: online 		Yes I can understand how it feels. For a retailer it is a fine line to walk. 50% of the people want an all inclusive package and the other 50% want individual prices on everything.

The roll out of these was less then smooth, but the issues are really water under the bridge now as we have moved passed this. I packaged up both my Clark Boards and sent them back today to take advantage of Clarks upgrade to the lastest and greatest version wiht all the fixes. So I know exactly how you feel as I had these mounted in tanks, and had to rip them out to send them back. A big inconvenience. However I have not lost sight of the fact these are $80 boards.

The only other issue that was a concern was the fact the Clark board would not accept hits from Tamiya LEO's. I am not sure where that ended up. I think this was also fixed, but I am not sure. Maybe Freaky can comment on this.

Freaky looks like he is taking on these Clark boards, so in the near future all these concerns should be addressed by having a local reseller whose primary interest is his customer.

In all honesty though Clark has been good about getting back to me on stuff, and I have no complaints about the communication once we understood each other.

Typically the old addage about not being the first to the table is very true in this case. The next boards that are to be built in February will probably be the ones worth waiting for.

I can help you out with a mount and cable if you want one. I have them in stock, Just PM me.

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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/9/2013 2:53 AM   
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Status: online 		 Well Scott I have to say I sympathise with a lot of what your saying here in that it's really frustrating to get stuff you think should be compatible then be told when it's not that the issue was common knowledge. Having the site not work cant help. I hope you persevere with this as you should be pretty close to having it working, with the plus side you know how to avoid the issues if you decide to use a Clark board in future projects. 

Its a slightly different situation in the uk where a lot of folks have Clark boards so some one can help with any issues. I'll be fitting Clark boards onto my panther F and jagdpanther mainly because it will cost me about £100 for both, as opposed to Tamiya which would be over £400 for new parts and £300 second hand.


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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/9/2013 5:20 AM   
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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/11/2013 4:07 AM   
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A Tamiya Sherman with TK20 in France:



As you can see at the begging of video, the layout is nice and clean, speaker box is made of card board, tamiya's old single motor gear box is upgraded to two motor configuration and works very good. I'm asking for more closer picture becasue I also have a single motor gear box and want to upgrade it.

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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/11/2013 8:46 AM   
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I am the owner of sherman
is old 1974
but the body is new I am delighted TK20E US , lowest price as tamiya or ELMOD

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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/17/2013 3:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Clark I hope you don't mind, but I linked one of your youtube videos of your 50 Cal. I love it, I think it would be great to have that option on your TK22 US version board, I would much rather have that then the hull mounted MG. Just sounds so much better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22I3_r5ESKE&list=UUtwaop58N19jaI9nCLwQ_hg

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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/17/2013 5:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi, Wade,

It's not about which sounds better, but just the hull mounted MG on Sherman is .30 cal and it sounds different to .50 Cal, this .50 Cal sound will be availiable on M41 & M1 version

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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/17/2013 5:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		I guess I will have to get a M41 then lol. I just love the sound of the 50cal. If I had a choice with my Sherman in mind I would leave out the 30cal and use the turret mounted 50cal, but that is just me. Have you ever considered doing custom sound sets? I would be willing to pay a few extra bucks to have the 50 instead of the 30 for the Sherman. I appreciate how much you have done so far. Thanks again.

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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/18/2013 1:41 AM   
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As we have many sound version to be released, we can not do customized board recently. I think you can use standard M4 version first and then go throught free update service to change MG sound in the future, or use M41 sound version.

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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/18/2013 3:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thank you Clark that is good to know. Can't wait to see what else you have planned.

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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/18/2013 4:11 AM   
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Hi, Wade,  

Pls check "Sound Package information" section on TK20 webpage. Basically, release schedule is synchronized with HL tank release schedule.

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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/22/2013 3:31 AM   
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I just replaced my IR Emiter on my Clarke Board. Burned out last week.
Q: Does anyone know off hand if the IR has a resistor on the Clarke Board or is it by an inline resistor (which I don't have). It would save me opening up my KT and fiddling with it to get a read out.
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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/22/2013 4:20 AM   
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Nasty bedtime thought:
I just replaced my IR Emiter on my Clarke Board. Burned out last week.
Q: Does anyone know off hand if the IR has a resistor on the Clarke Board or is it by an inline resistor (which I don't have). It would save me opening up my KT and fiddling with it to get a read out.
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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/22/2013 4:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		what IR Emiter you used? TK20 board has on-board resistor to calibrate power level  as Tamiya's 

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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/22/2013 2:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for the response!
I'm using a Radio Shack IR from a prior build. It was suggested as an excellent replacement IR for the Tamiya IR.
**Are you working on any FPV systems to integrate with the Board?
I'm struggling to learn how to revise a sketch for an onboard OS that will provide integrated information including gunner reticle into the video stream back to a hybrid TX/LCD setup. It's challenging...
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PS: This is similar to the setup I'm building.

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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/22/2013 2:30 PM   
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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/22/2013 3:05 PM   
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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/23/2013 1:36 AM   
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Thanks for the response!
I'm using a Radio Shack IR from a prior build. It was suggested as an excellent replacement IR for the Tamiya IR.
**Are you working on any FPV systems to integrate with the Board?
I'm struggling to learn how to revise a sketch for an onboard OS that will provide integrated information including gunner reticle into the video stream back to a hybrid TX/LCD setup. It's challenging...
tjs
PS: This is similar to the setup I'm building.


The FPV system im working are quite different to this, it's cellular phone based, both control and video are go thought cellular phone, no radio is needed.

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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/23/2013 3:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		That sounds really interesting! What happens when your phone rings? Sorry - I couldn't resist it. I just finally finished the mechanical part of a long KT build.
Looking forward to seeing your FPV solution!
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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/28/2013 6:59 AM   
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TK22-M41 is ready!!




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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/28/2013 3:48 PM   
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RE: Clark electronics TK20 - 1/29/2013 1:32 AM   
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Too busy to modify it lately...

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