I was heavily involved in Model railroading. That hobby has the NMRA. This organization was formed to ensure manufacturers were following some type of standard to allow differnt peices of equipment to work together. In Model Railroading they have Digital command control. A set standard was adopted by the NMRA, and companies that manufacturer to that standard got the NMRA stamp of approval. This meant the consumer could buy a piece of Model railroad equipment, and know that if it had the NMRA stamp of approval it would work with everything else he had.

Lenz volunteered their DCC design to the hobby, and it was adopted as standard.

Standards would help us move this tanking hobby along.

I think if we took the Tamiya standard, improved it with the chrome domes, and variable range emitters, we would have a robust system that would be fun to work with. Tell all the manufactures to use this for thier projects going forward. Have Heng Long, Tamiya, Hooben , and everyone else playing on the same page. I t would cost the manufacturers nothing but it would be a huge win for the consumers.

Just image if VS tanks played by these rules too. All their target options they are now manufacturing could then be used by everyone.

It really is time to try and get some manufactureres to agree to a simple IR standard that would allow us to mis match components and still have them function together.