Finally got to the task of connecting up the boards for the first prelimanary testing.Got all the motors running and turning in the right direction.Did this with tracks removed,and one board at a time.Made up the Y connector that goes from the little board to the two big boards.First attempt the lights would flash but tank would not start.(set the top hull from a tiger onto the hull of the Panzer to connect to so I would have the lights and other features for the tests)Dissconnected one board at a time and tryed each board by its self,they seemed to work OK.Started the tank on one board and pluged in the second board,things kind of ran iraticly and would start and stop.Then one half would not work at all.Decided to change the little board out and use a different crystal,also (darkith) had suggested I might need to cut the center wire on the one that went to the second little board so I also did that.Tried it again and everything seemed to be working alright now.Put the tracks back on and decided it was ready to test on the floor.Just kind of stuffed all the wires and boards inside to make the test run,set the tiger upper hull on top of the panzer and pluged in the pin connector.
(Will post three pictures of this below) Fired it up and ran it around in the house.Was supprised it actually ran pretty straight frontwards or backwards.Turns very good even on deep carpet,has a lot of power and is very responsive.Didn't want to get to aggresive at this point because I was a little concerned the boards just laying in the bottom of the hull might contact each other and short something out.Now I will start mounting the boards in a permenant location and get it ready for further testing.
Thats it for now. BIGMIG