Originally Posted by
ausf
Seriously? I don't mean that sarcastically, but are you serious?
I thought the big flaw that everyone hates about the 4 sensor apple was no 45 defense or slope. I have apple designs that use one sensor and take hits from every imaginable angle. Most of the time spent prototyping is creating the 45 and slope.
I finally cracked the nut and should have something ready to go in a week or so (waiting on a second shipment of electronics). If you really want something that will take directional hits in brilliant sunshine without 45/slope, I could have put that in your hands the first day I met you.
LOL Jeff. It is easily done, but I cannot get the rest of the RC tankers to agree to it. Remove the apple fins (they are not really needed indoors) and install the cone reflector. It took years of growing complaints by dozens of us at Danville to resolve the fan shot issue...finally. Far too many guys like the 45 degree...but it should not make a tank invulnerable. We do enjoy battling they way it is now so I will make do too. At the Cam-Am battles in Ontario I attended they have very few, if any, Tamiya apples, so to them slope defense if almost unheard of. ELmod DBU (with fins) and other systems. I had a Tamiya apple and if I had battled using my slope defense they would have had great trouble ever hitting me at anything other than point blank range. It would have given me a very unfair and ungentlemanly advantage over them. I probably would have been shown the door or even deported. They were great guys and I hope to go up there again this year.
