Originally Posted by
Max-U52
Thanks, Martin, that's very, very cool. I guess I'll have to put the elmod on the things to buy list.
What radio are you running on? How many channels do you need for the halftrack? I'm sure the 9X will run it, what about a plain 4 channel TX?
That was on a DX5e, but any 4 channel radio will work. Trick is to get a small enough receiver that it will fit into one of the fuel tanks - Spektrum make some very compact soft case receivers.
And how was the installation of the elmod? Easy? Hard? I'm going to use your canvass cover set-up on mine so I suppose it will make hiding everything pretty easy. And the elmod halftrack board runs on 12 volts, right?
The board replaces the original one, so its all plug an play. I put the rx in the right hand side fuel tank, and a compact panel speaker and volume knob in the left. The battle circuit sits in the gunners chair, that and the ribbon cable to the board are the only 2 bits that show once its all installed.
I don't know weather the board is capable of 12v operation, I would assume so? I run one of mine on an 8 cell transmitter style battery pack (8x 1.2v NiMH AAA cells) and the other on a 7.2v 2/3A duratrax pack. I didn't really think of it at the time, but I could have kept the original battery config and fitted 8x 1.2v NiMH AA's instead of the packs.