Hi Tank Gurus:

Hope everyone had a great Christmas.

It occurred to me that all of the functions of HL tanks are a direct function of the circuitry/component choices on the main board (as activated by the transmitter signal). As this is certainly the case, one should be able to change or eliminate any of the functions with circuit/component changes to the existing board. It would take a Tanker Guru with far more electronic knowledge than I have to effect such changes but the concept is relatively straight forward.

Recoil: I really don't know how the "Dreaded Heng Long Recoil" is activated, but it involves sending a quick burst of forward voltage to the drive motors followed by a quick burst of reverse voltage. Locating the circuit/components that accomplishes this involves tracing motor circuits and associated circuits on the board.

A clever "Electronics Wizard" should be able to figure out the circuitry that accomplishes this (an electronic switching and timing circuit) and would know how to deactivate it or moderate it to lessen the effect.

For instance: If you shortened the timing it would dampen the effect, if you eliminated the forward burst, it would only allow a quick backwards motion which would at least reduce the effect by half and appear more like real uncontrolled recoil, and if you completely deactivate it, a lot of people would be really grateful.

The changes to the board might be as simple as scratching through one of the printed circuit paths to completely deactivate the circuit, to adding a jumper or jumper wires and/or adding or replacing components to change the timing.

Sorry I don't have the knowledge of electronics to do any of this but hoping that someone who does will jump in and show dummies like myself what is needed.


Thanks in advance to anyone who can benefit us with their superior electronics wizardry.

Cheers,
Old Fatman