Well i've started the conversion of my HL Tiger to a complete Tamiya electronics package including the TBU. Everything in it will be Tamiya parts except the traverse mechanism. It is a Asitam hull with An RCCommand custom turret witch already had the Tamiya KT recoild motor system, but it had the new HL elevation unit. i replaced this with tha Tam Tiger elevation unit utilizing the elevation arm from the HL unit. I am also installing tha actuall Tamiya Tiger speaker box. this is taking some modification because the HL traverse mechanism interfears with the Elev. motor. I will get some pics up sone be fore i get to far into the build, but sofar everything is working out fine. I may even be able to keep the Asiatam upperhull locking mechanism. I have RCCommand 3:1 Steel gear boxes in it and i'm adding Speed 400 motors with 12 tooth pinion gear so it should get back some of the speed to get closer to scale. the RCC gearboxes although add tons of torque are a little slow with white cap motors. I already have the Turret completed with the IR emmitter and recoil unit and Tamy elevation unit with the Tam High intensity flash. I also jave tha Tam hull machine gun led to -plug into the DMD unit. I will be using my new Futaba skysport 2.4 gHz radio that comes wiith a 4 channel spread spectrum reciever. i am also going to be using 2 matched 5000 mAh batteries, one for each control module. That should make for very long battles. All the Electronics where purchased from Jason's on ebay. All the other components came from Karren from the AAF, I love you darlin, thanks so much for the help and awesome service. The new radio only takes 4 AA batteries so no fancy packs, I'll be using Tenergy rechargeable niM h AA cells for the radio. So that will be 10,000 mAh of battery power in this tank. All i'm waiting for are the pinion gears from Hobby lobby where i got the Speed 400's from. the shaft sizes are the same as the HL motors so i could have used the ten tooth pinions from them but i want it to be as quick as it can be but still with scale speed. Made alot of progress yesturday but want to back teck to get the pics docummented. This thing is going to be a beast . Cant wait to get it done as I will be bringing it to Danville this spring along with my Tamy Panther G and my fully RC and Tamiya compatable Denix 88 mm anti tank gun. It has a TBU compatable system on it from Nick. He also make some IR targets powered by 9 volt batteries. I have a sound card for one that works with an onboard relay to trigger the sound card.
Just have to get some good quality sound byteas to put on the card. i also want to hook up a loop of back groung battle sounds that continuosly replay.

Sounds like a great project and look forward to some pictures. Also, let me know how the Futaba skysport 2.4 works out because I am looking at one right now.


- Jeff

Im not hatin on your project or any thing so no offence. If your gonna drop all this money on such a project why not just buy a tamiya to begin with?

Some of us like a challenge... [8D]

To be honest, as a first time Tamiya builder I'm a bit bored by the whole 'build by the numbers approach' - so I bought a bunch of hop up parts to liven things up (thanks Pcomm1 / Sevoblast!)

(Ninja edit) Jason is the Man! excellent service

I love to see these sorts of conversions.  Lookin' forward to seeing some progress photos.

Well, this Tiger started out with your basic HL Tiger that I just kept upgrading and upgrading and so forth and so on. At it's current state , the only thing left on it that is HL is the upper hull and traverse mechanism. So why would I leave the stock electronics in it.?
I've tried the DBC and dont be hatin the RCC battle systems but was just not satisfied. For the cost of every Tamiya part I bought for this tank I still could not buy a complete el-Mod system, so again Why not?

Oh and i'll be using 2, 5000mAh batteries. One for the DMD and one for the MFU.no Y cables here.

How much do you think it's going to weigh in at?

With 2 batteries around 13 too 14 pounds I think. It's already pretty heavy. I'll have to weigh it.

I like heavy, "heavy" tanks.  Very cool.

No wonder you have to use foam under your tanks!

PICS!!!

This site for what ever reason gives me fits trying to post pics. The camera quality is too high i believe so the file gets too big, I'm working on it Joe. But i did post them on the N.E.A.D. site yesterday. any one having the same trouble posting pics?

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Looks great Greg,
I can't wait to see it run....Bob

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Have you run those gearboxes yet? Mike broke shortly after installing. The standoff that is lathed down for the reduction gear only had about a 5 mil thickness. Wonder if they are all like that?

Perry

These boxes have a lot of hours on them. They are the 3:1 steel version from RCCommand. No problems with them at all. They were just too slow with the white cap motors. Thats why I installed the speed 400's.

I am thinking about reversing the gears in the housings as I'm not to crazy about the pinion gear being that far out on the shaft. I have done this before on gearboxes with that issue. It is easy , you just have to press the final drive gear off of the shaft and reverse it on the output shaft to get everything too line back up. Doesn't change anything in how the box works.

I believe I know what you are saying Perry, that gear is still of the cast metal type. These where the early versions of Bill's gear boxes. I believe that with the current boxes all the gears are steel. The set I have is his actuall prototype. so it has the cast drop down gear. He did this because the drop down was not into production yet. If you remember he had the all steel gear boxes available before the 3:1, so he offered them this way to get the ball rolling. I'm sure if you contact Bill he could get you the steel drop down gear to replace the cast gear. That would get you back in buisness. But Like i said I have alot of hours on these boxes with no problems.

All done. Easiest conversion I ever did. Works great.

Nice work Greg. These conversion are not only easy but economical as well.


- Jeff

Wow , camera didn't like that last setting. LOL