Hi , Im making a jagdpanther conversion and I just got thinking .... how about making the firebutton actually fire the tank - when there is no turret the barrel always point the right way , so this should look good .... anyone tried this??? ..... anyone know how to make it work ????

It shouldn't be a problem if the tank you're converting has a BB gun to begin with. If not (as in the fire button only lights up an LED), then you may have to use the turret traverse line to power the gun's firing motor (but you may also have to rewire the controller).

Think the big problem would be synchronizing the BB leaving the barrel and the recoil action, as the airsoft motor takes so long to wind up before releasing. IIRC, somebody said the VS tank airsoft guns have a switch which is triggered when the round leaves the barrel. If you're using Heng Long electronics, it should be possible to rig this switch to trigger the recoil action, just a matter of finding the right signal on the board.

D.

Its a HL pantiger im redbuilding http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_5551531/tm.htm ..... Im just worried about the firingbuttonsignal - it just makes the motors jump back ( recoil ) and some sound , so it could be hard to use it to fire the gun .... I might get it to do the recoil action when I fire the bb gun the standard way ( synchronizing will be a problem ), but using the gun button to acctually fire the gun is an other matter ...

I think darkith is thinking right. The amperage available from the fire button isn't enough to power the motor that winds up the gun. By wiring in a switch like the VS guns you could trigger the heng long board to recoil.

Hmmm - have to do some thinking here .... have to get back on this topic when I get to it on my Jagdpanther build ...