Originally Posted by
Max-U52
I totally agree, Philip, and that gives me an idea. I know Imex is working on a new board, and I keep saying that there are only a few things I want that would eliminate the need for me to even think about hobby grade on most of my tanks. If they would give us a board that:
1. has a provision to eliminate track recoil
2. have volume control from TX
3. turn smoke on/off from TX
3. lights on/off from TX
4. proportional speed on turret rotation (and maybe gun elevation, I could live without that if we had number 5)
5. Up/down gun movement from left stick forward/reverse
6. separate button for cannon fire
The idea I just had is: Let's start a separate thread and get a consensus of what should be included in a redesigned stock MFU and TX. We're getting a lot of vendor and manufacturer participation on the forum, let's use it to get this message across to the people that make tanks.
If I could buy an airsoft tank with the features listed here I would never have the need to spend all that time and money upgrading electronics and I could spend more time detailing the tank and ... actually driving it!
Gary, similar thoughts but tweaked for me...
1. has a provision to eliminate track recoil (
absolutely agree)
2. have volume control from TX
(nice to have...but would be cool)
3. turn smoke on/off from TX
(nice to have...but would be cool)
4. lights on/off from TX
(nice to have...would be the first priority "nice to have" over the others simply for night time stalking or ambushes)
5. proportional speed on turret rotation (and maybe gun elevation, I could live without that if we had number 6)
(absolutely agree)
6. Up/down gun movement from left stick forward/reverse (
absolutely agree...could even keep the current elevation assembly. I could live without a servo doing it.)
7. separate button for cannon fire (
absolutely agree...keep the separate button for the machine gun and engine start-up, change the machine gun lever to a button switch. HL got that one right)
8. ability to change the sounds with a micro-USB port (or microSD card)
I don't know a lot about radios and how channels are assigned. However, it would seem to me that Taigen and HL may already be using a 5- or 6-channel radio. Each stick seems to occupy 2 channels (one for up/down responses on the stick; one for the left/right responses). That makes 4 channels between the two sticks. I believe Taigen and HL use another channel for two of the controls - engine sound and machine gun. And, HL may be using half a channel for the main gun firing (has button for that on their controller). That would leave another half a channel available for continuous action (like Taigen's machine switch that causes the machine gun to fire as long as it is in the "on" position). Using that channel count, Taigen is using a 5-channel transmitter/receiver (no separate button for main gun firing sound). Seems that it wouldn't be too hard to give us items 6 and 7.
To prioritize the "nice to haves"...4, then 3, then 2.
My two cents...
