After fooling around with the wires for about an hour, my wife read the manual and told me that the gun, cannon, and recoil effects only work when the tank is in "normal state" (which means no smoke).....imagine that....she actually read the directions. SHE READ THE DIRECTIONS!!! What is the world coming to?!!

So now the tank works better as long as the smoke is turned off, but I like the smoke. [&o]

After finally getting to drive the tank for an extended period of time, I noticed that the motor power seems to pulse between full power and about 2/3 power. In addition, the steering continues to turn even after I release the throttle stick, causing the tank to over-steer quite often.

I think that I got a lemon. [:-]