ORIGINAL: Baron Fel
<p class="MsoNormal">I would hardly say I have an "uniformedopinion". I have read nearlyeverything they've published about this product. Also, I'm involved in the RC tank industry ona professional level.</p><p class="MsoNormal">By definition, "Plug and Play" means plug it inand run it. No special modifications or "tweaks". The discussion here (and your own admission, BADASSForce) confirm that this is not the case with the Clark board. You have a lot of controltweaking to do even for a basic installation without the bells and whistles that require rewiring.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The basic control diagram looks like a fatality sequence onMortal Combat.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o
>That being said, I am impressed with this product. If not exactly "plug and play", itIS reasonably simple to install. The fact that it CAN be custom wired to fit the user's specific needs is a bigplus. Mr Clark's active participation onthe forums shows a dedication to his product and customers not always seen in this industry.</o
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>"Wow" was just an exclamation expressing my shockat how much has to be done. I will concede that maybe "far" is an inappropriate adverb.</o
></p><p class="MsoNormal">Last time I checked though, civil discourse is much more productive than sarcastic pot shots.</p><p class="MsoNormal">My apologies if I sidetracked this. Let's move along and be productive.<o
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></p><p class="MsoNormal">BTW tsull - Your installation is beautifully executed. I am envious.
</p>Of course I admit the Clark boards aren't 100% plug & play, I've never stated otherwise, however this thread was started to discuss installation & configuration, not the extent of the board's apparent plug & play or non-plug & play levels, & you were the one who brought the term "plug & play" into this particular discussion with your first emotionally exaggerated statement. There have been plenty of discussions of what plug & play means in respect to these board's installations by various forum members already in other Clark threads here, as well as other forums. I know what it means too & it wasn't necessary to enlighten me with your definition, so there really isn't any point in discussing it in this thread. I will still disagree with your comment that there is "
a lot of control tweeking to do even for a basic installation". I had my board running without doing
any tweaking to the actual board's functional setup at all. The only tweaks were with my new 2.4GHz CT6B Tx that controls the board, & I used DigitalRadio to program my Tx & have the tank control set up just perfectly within minutes using it.
Besides in my very first response to your "Wow" & "FAR" comment (with your use of CAPITALS on FAR to accentuate just how distant actual plug & play was for the board), I wasn't taking pot shots or being very sarcastic at all, I actually agreed it wasn't plug & play, stated it wasn't too far from it, & simply suggested you not be too overly melodramatic (Characteristic of melodrama, esp. in being
exaggerated,
sensationalized, or
overemotional.) using "Wow" & "FAR" with respect to the board's plug & play capability; which by the way even you now concede actually was inappropriate. Overly melodramatic was an accurate description of your first Wow & FAR comment, since it was exactly that, so there was no irony, ridicule, or cutting remark in that description intended as sarcasm. But in your response post you then sensationalized your claim of the boards not being plug & play even farther by stating
most of the tank needs to be rewired (wrong),
then program the unit (not necessarily correct), & go further by insinuating "
Wow" & "FAR" was now some how an
understatement; which it was that response where the real sarcasm started! So if you want civil discourse without sarcasm, I have always been one to oblige, but then don't start with your own.
So regardless of your professional involvement with the RC tank industry, you have zero personal experience with installing the Clark board in any tank, where I have installed several now. I'll reaffirm, the Clark board isn't really
that FAR from plug & play by admission from not just myself, someone who has just a few months of beginner RC modding experience, but by a lot of other people owning & installing the boards. So it's good we can agree to stop side-tracking the discussion now on all this & move on to more productive conversation, like I had with my very first post in this thread.
~ Craig ~