Hello,

I remember you, your the guy who looks for super cheap steal a rc tank deal, a real mean Wheeler Dealer you are!

Your Question: Could you elaborate on the mistakes one can make plugging in a flash unit that will cause it to fry?

A. Answer:
I have seen others do this...
1. Removing the once newly installed Flash Unit "Plug" from the MF Unit is fraught for potential disasters and that is were I have seen ruined plugs that were torn apart, unseen broken wires that induce shorts plus sometimes MF pins that are inadvertently bent causing contact shorts.
2. Using to much force and poorly aligning the white plug when a rookie builder is newly installing the Flash Unit plug into the MF socket can bend a pin causing an unseen short.
3. Also, last year, for my Sherman 75mm build, Nick of Nick's Sherman resin mantlets and turrets recommended stripping off the orange installation from the Tamiya flash unit to fit inside the 75mm gun barrel and that is another possible short - shock safety danger issue.
4. We can go on but the range of mistakes modelers make is endless and I ain't going to argue with you, it is what is.
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Your Question: Also so please explain how an ibu is sub optimal for ir battling? I use them and I use Tamiya and both have the same stick layout both can use a Tamiya tbu and it emitter and our testing shows the same range with both.[/QUOTE]

B. Answer:
1. The IBU2, it is the setup issues in my opinion that make it Clark like in that it is not user friendly (plug and play) and it uses a similar problematic Open Board Design = to feeble, to delicate, to cheaply made, to painful to setup work with (like Clark), not to mention the IBU2 terrible 30 page pdf instruction file, which leads to the primary issue: good luck with durability vs the product cheapness and I ain't going to argue with you, it is what is.

Hope this helps and I recommend to you this famous quote from the UK, relative to RC Tank Controllers:


John Ruskin
“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When
you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay
too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you
bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The
common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a
lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well
to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will
have enough to pay for something better.”


Bye