Dan and I converse a lot. Even on this thread.

So I recharged a few batteries and the tank performs much better. It glitches a lot on low battery. Don't know why they were all nearly dead after two days. They are all new batteries except one.

I ran it around quite a bit and did lots of firing. It operated much better but the turret rotation glitches if I so much as move the elevation lever up or down even a little while throwing the stick full left or right, then the rotation motor glitches and hesitates. kinda frustrating.

I put my HL panzer3 with a BARC3 out and had the tanks shooting at each other. Both have BARCs and Tamiya recivers and Battle armor IR bulbs. The panzer can hit the Sherman from a whole front yard away, like 50 feet. The Sherman had to get about half that distance to hit the panzer. This was after I tested them at 10 feet to confirm operation. I probably need to push the IR bulb close to the end of the barrel.

The major pain in the ass is the up left fire control. 99% of the time when tap up left the barrel goes up too. Either making me miss the shot or making it, but making a follow up shot impossible.

At this point I don't know what to do. I don't like the operation and in reality to make any use of it in battling I am going to have to unplug the elevation servo and go with a fixed barrel position.

The BARC 5 needs to be created to run a separate channel with a toggle or push button to tigger firing (channel 5) Machine gun (channel 6) and servo elevation up and down. That would be a perfect top of the line plug and play system IMHO. Perfect for guys like us that want to completely upgrade the system in the HL not using anything but the rotation motor.