I have never driven a tank,and in a lot of respects these do steer properly.The big problem is we get used to using a single joy stick
and the tank moves in the direction you point the stick.Seeing we are using duel electric motors it also allows one to make pivot turns because the motors can run in oposite directions at the same time,thus the super spin.I have run a lot of cat's in my time,mostly the old style but also some of the newer models in todays world.There have been a lot of changes as we well know,a lot of our toys in some ways work like the real tracked vehicles of today.(or is it the other way around,mabe they coppied the toys??)
Now on todays equipment most everything is done with joy sticks,talking cats and track hoe's here.The old style cats you were using one motor which in turn was supplying power to both tracks no mater what direction you were moving,you could not reverse a track
you could only take the power away from it and therefor it will turn.In a forward movement(for example)if you wanted to make a right turn one would pull back on the right steering clutch lever and this takes away the power to that track and it starts turning right,and to increase the severity of the turn you also had steering brakes for each track.The harder one pushed the steering brake the tighter it could pivot.There was other versions of this method used on different equipment,some of todays stuff you pull on both sticks to make them move.
But back to these stuart tanks some guys from what I have read on a few posts like to change the joy stick directions to kind of match up to work like the HL models.This is something I may do also just to keep my steering habbits the same.
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